Puzzle 1
Starter clue: V = E
AVLVLEAMYKVMYQAVONVKUXFYZFRMNNXVQ!RZMUUZXYGMAUXUXFYJJVYJVOAFLUZFBIZUQXSXQV!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Truth Cryptograms Set 19
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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: E = A
JPGJADG,BJATRQ,ERKBTDRKOSRKSBJPGOSRKJPEJWERGOYAEWGGZDENNFQAGEJJPSRQBERKBOENN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Y = T
CIIHMMFM,PFYQHMHIVKHMECI,DZCZYMFPLNCVFOZYCYDPLYSCYYSHUWMMHPYYMWYSDZDPUFQAIHYH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = E
PDGPKUIGEPJUJUHBSBDZLBKKGHGDRGJCGUMGGDVRVUVDLVTBGBJUIVUVRVUIVJPDTWDBDGTBOGJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: V = E
DVRNKW'NUQKCVXCVRNSDV,RCCIQVMKONKGNVWNV,CEVEWIQDVVUKDTN,-QVRCIQ,XVRFV,RWTFKJXVIVWFV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: D = E
YODAK'ALEZALDEBKRTBDABXKWDDYEZHWBFKWYKWDYEABK,XDIDEBXKWDKZXCJDZHWBFKWYKFYMDABK.
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)
- “Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide!”— Alexander Pope, 1734, An Essay on Man, Epistle I. Line 225 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=U C=Q D=K E=B F=O G=P H=X I=G J=S K=C L=M M=A N=L O=F P=Z Q=D R=W S=V T=Y U=T V=E W=J X=I Y=N Z=H
- “The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.”— Samuel Johnson, 1791, Boswell, Life of Johnson, Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. VII. Chap. VI. 1778 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=S C=X D=U E=A F=Y G=E H=V I=W J=T K=D L=P M=K N=L O=M P=H Q=G R=N S=I T=O U=J V=F W=C X=Z Y=B Z=Q
- “All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=P B=J C=A D=I E=B F=O G=Q H=E I=L J=Z K=V L=G M=R N=W O=F P=N Q=M R=K S=H T=X U=C V=Y W=U X=D Y=T Z=S
- “One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”— Mark Twain, 1894, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead WilsonCipher key: A=U B=I C=B D=N E=M F=J G=E H=R I=H J=S K=F L=D M=W N=P O=V P=O Q=Z R=C S=K T=L U=T V=A W=Y X=Q Y=X Z=G
- “Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, - health, peace, and competence.”— Alexander Pope, 1734, An Essay on Man, Epistle IV. Line 79 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=K C=L D=R E=I F=C G=F H=B I=T J=M K=O L=Z M=J N=S O=Y P=Q Q=H R=A S=U T=D U=W V=E W=N X=P Y=X Z=V
- “A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=I C=G D=E E=R F=M G=Q H=F I=V J=U K=T L=P M=K N=C O=J P=D Q=B R=Y S=X T=L U=Z V=W W=H X=N Y=A Z=O