Puzzle 1
Starter clue: K = I
SOTKOVFSJATMPBIPKSOIOXGTRKTUFIXMKATOTXKOZSUIKZF,IOXUIKZFGTESJTIAIPPKSOIZTKOZBKZKSO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Truth Cryptograms Set 22
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: P = E
ZIQFMPYTP,VIOHNOA,VDOAPTHPCODNIVIOAPJVHXCXPIO.MVJPCIYKQFPHCHPDECOOPHPYFVOACMMVODUPCXD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Y = E
XEYOYFFEIMORWTWSY,GWCAEFIOMYLWRMEBFBLWFYTHBDUXYO.MYTWRTBFOOBRVYWSVXWEFWFHOBOMYVDCVBRY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: S = A
OQIOJLICFWAREFWORHISPCSUWWISWRXSHPI,SXAORMQSXBICFOQSBRRABJSMIFXMQSXBFXBMFJMLEWOSXMIW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: F = E
MQMTWSMBPFMLFDTFKWAYL;PIWWEFQFFGALOARWEFGMJ,MLNAWARWEMWJEATEBYISIRWLFAWEFZOMZPGFLYZPFGAF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: P = E
RKGDDGARMZVIRVPFPCNGSP'AVCOPXGCAIMKXRAVIRVXIMYIIPWGOSZMSOAPMSVIPKDRYPXIPCPIPYIRSYPZVGLP.
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)
- “One in whom persuasion and belief had ripened into faith, and faith become a passionate intuition.”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book IV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=U C=V D=X E=C F=H G=B H=Y I=A J=M K=I L=Z M=R N=Q O=N P=S Q=G R=L S=O T=E U=F V=W W=J X=D Y=K Z=T
- “Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.”— Daniel Webster, 1825, Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. Vol. I. p. 74 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=V C=A D=S E=C F=W G=Y H=R I=N J=F K=P L=Q M=L N=U O=T P=E Q=O R=X S=J T=G U=B V=I W=Z X=M Y=D Z=K
- “Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.”— William Shakespeare, 1599, Much Ado about Nothing, Act II. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=O C=R D=U E=I F=N G=C H=D I=G J=M K=Q L=F M=H N=Y O=T P=Z Q=X R=S S=K T=W U=B V=P W=A X=L Y=E Z=J
- “The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=D B=G C=W D=F E=M F=I G=J H=B I=E J=R K=Q L=U M=C N=V O=T P=L Q=H R=O S=A T=Z U=Y V=K W=S X=N Y=X Z=P
- “A fact may be an exception; but the feeling is the law, and it is that which you must neither garble nor belie.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=I B=Y C=V D=X E=H F=E G=L H=Q I=U J=W K=P L=N M=A N=D O=G P=B Q=F R=S S=M T=C U=K V=J W=T X=Z Y=O Z=R
- “Apollo said that every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1580, Essays, Book II, Chap. XII. Apology for Raimond Sebond (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=J C=R D=L E=Q F=V G=O H=X I=H J=Z K=P L=B M=I N=Y O=U P=E Q=K R=A S=N T=G U=M V=T W=F X=W Y=C Z=D