Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = E
XKQPOPPLAUNADKIXUNVPJPQRCGEWKV'APRP,KVEDUPQPXKQPGCEHPA,AGPPLDNGGVPJPQGNP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Truth Cryptograms Set 18
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: M = A
GHLGRYPULVJNULGTMWR,UHYMCTMYEAZEADVMAJ?MVVQTMH,AUATMEJNUL,MAJQTPLAJTHYGMAJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: K = A
JUJTKUQYHTKGJMNUFKUKVKMVYTUHKUKCHRWISTKBUPJUFFJTSQJHMXZHSIQHFHWMIPTFJV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: F = I
IMSLNHFNPLMSPYMSNBALJRSPPRSLMLGGFSJ,LRJNWFRULMNFNFBRPJBNWSFMKBYRJPJFEFJS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: T = E
QTGRYLVIVYYUXYXRTIBCWTSGXRSTBXTCHCWLG,BCISTOTIJXRTOGYABSBGVHTGHCYLSNYQTS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: D = E
BUBRGTNRTGDNTHPFINDCIHDRUUIUDEEHIUCBHYUCTHUIODRBEDHUZCDHZDCTKDODYJHUIUDEE.
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)
- “Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”— William Shakespeare, 1595, Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=J C=O D=W E=D F=Q G=L H=G I=T J=V K=A L=P M=Z N=I O=K P=E Q=R R=Y S=U T=F U=H V=N W=M X=C Y=B Z=X
- “Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.”— Alexander Pope, 1734, An Essay on Man, Epistle IV. Line 261 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=Z C=V D=G E=I F=M G=T H=R I=B J=D K=X L=U M=A N=Y O=J P=W Q=F R=H S=Q T=E U=O V=L W=C X=P Y=S Z=K
- “It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, Don Quixote, Part I, Book III. Chap. I (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=L C=P D=Q E=Z F=H G=Y H=E I=O J=I K=A L=J M=N N=G O=V P=W Q=R R=C S=F T=S U=T V=M W=K X=D Y=U Z=B
- “Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”— John Dryden, 1681, Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. Line 163 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=O C=K D=J E=V F=I G=L H=W I=G J=D K=B L=A M=R N=T O=C P=S Q=Z R=N S=E T=Y U=P V=F W=H X=Q Y=U Z=X
- “We should look to the dangers threatening us, and remedy them so far as lies in our power.”— Ulysses S. Grant, 1875, Seventh Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=F B=A C=N D=X E=Z F=B G=S H=I I=D J=Y K=J L=U M=C N=P O=M P=V Q=W R=H S=R T=E U=K V=L W=G X=T Y=O Z=Q
- “It is far safer and more honest to tell nothing than to be silent when we have begun to tell.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=P B=I C=H D=E E=L F=M G=F H=N I=O J=U K=V L=Q M=X N=R O=B P=D Q=J R=S S=K T=A U=T V=C W=Y X=Z Y=G Z=W