Puzzle 1
Starter clue: F = T
FCXFBDFMQPBIFXTL,PQMPOOKOBXTXJDIQFXFMIQCITTZUJPYFXVFMIZNOIBZPTFMINI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Truth Cryptograms Set 16
6 cryptograms to solve with a pencil. Each letter of the quote has been swapped for another letter, and the same swap holds all the way through.
20 pt ciphertext — the size a newspaper puzzle page never gives you. 26 pt ciphertext with wide letter spacing and room to write. Both sizes print on US Letter with the answer key on its own page.
Printing this web page instead? Press Ctrl+P (⌘+P on a Mac). The navigation and buttons drop away, and the answer key prints on its own page — open it below first if you want it included.
The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: A = E
UOODUVVANETPEOADVVEVPAVPAQUPYUOBAKEVYCAPWIGAJY,IWYMIAOMAXAKVEVAETMY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: A = I
VOQVKXEAJVPOMXQOWPAWWXIPVKAJUIXOPYAEEAMQGVVKFJVXOPEOFAJEOXIXTPJGAPW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: S = E
RNTSVZKSVTHS:FZVCPFOYNFFSSRNXPS;NINHXVLCPYCFSSRQPVWZQV,OTZLQVLZVCSTSKJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: C = T
LAUFRC,LCLGFGHLUULRZMCCXFWWSXWSLFCVCIVCIXZYICGXUXCIVSGFGLCLGCXLAPVAC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: I = T
IEUGLBUDRULKYUGFKV,ZTIIBTYWGQWIY,-XUDPGAWCKFOYIBYWGFD,ZTIIEYIBWUIFBEWIY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Solver's cheat sheet
- Most common letters
- E T A O I N S H R D L U
- Most common 1-letter words
- A I
- Most common 2-letter words
- OF TO IN IT IS BE AS AT SO WE HE BY OR ON DO IF ME MY UP AN GO NO US AM
- Most common 3-letter words
- THE AND FOR ARE BUT NOT YOU ALL ANY CAN HER WAS ONE OUR OUT DAY GET HAS HIM HIS HOW MAN NEW NOW OLD SEE TWO WAY WHO BOY DID ITS LET PUT SAY SHE TOO USE
- Common double letters
- LL EE SS OO TT FF RR NN PP CC
- Common word endings
- -ING -ION -ENT -TION -LY -ED -ER -EST
- After an apostrophe
- T (don't) S (it's) RE (we're) VE (I've) LL (we'll) D (I'd)
Want this on its own sheet? Print the letter frequency chart.
Show the answer key (6 solutions)
- “Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme.”— William Shakespeare, 1606, Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=R C=W D=U E=X F=T G=Q H=K I=E J=G K=Y L=D M=H N=M O=P P=A Q=S R=V S=Z T=L U=N V=F W=J X=O Y=C Z=I
- “All manner of solemn nonsense was talked on the subject, but I believed none of it.”— Jane Austen, 1815, EmmaCipher key: A=E B=K C=H D=M E=O F=X G=J H=Z I=B J=C K=D L=Q M=I N=R O=L P=S Q=W R=Y S=G T=F U=A V=N W=U X=V Y=T Z=P
- “Truth of intercourse is something more difficult than to refrain from open lies.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=I B=W C=Y D=K E=F F=A G=L H=Q I=M J=N K=H L=J M=C N=V O=R P=E Q=U R=X S=Z T=P U=G V=T W=S X=O Y=D Z=B
- “Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”— George Herbert, 1633, The Temple, The Church Porch (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=J C=H D=V E=P F=N G=K H=U I=F J=Y K=B L=W M=X N=A O=G P=I Q=S R=D S=E T=R U=Z V=T W=M X=L Y=C Z=O
- “In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1876, Letters and Social Aims, Quotation and Originality (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=Q C=T D=B E=M F=A G=S H=D I=H J=X K=Y L=I M=L N=J O=W P=V Q=K R=C S=R T=Z U=F V=E W=P X=O Y=G Z=U
- “This principle is old, but true as fate, - Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.”— Thomas Dekker, 1604, The Honest Whore, Part I. Act IV. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=R C=Y D=N E=H F=O G=S H=W I=T J=Z K=L L=P M=X N=J O=V P=G Q=F R=C S=Q T=U U=I V=D W=A X=K Y=E Z=B