Puzzle 1
Starter clue: N = S
JRMGHAAXMNHGQHFJRRWUMWZWNXNXBNHFBCPMWNHB,OFNJWNKFTRWNJRMMKZWPPWNNXBSVFMNJXHBNYFJZQZWZMNWBCNFTLAXBSN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Truth Cryptograms Set 26
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: X = E
QETOIFWOFBVIFTXXFIGUNQTXWBRXOLTEJVRXGTVTHXIGKWGLGBFWBX;FWOVRXNFTXFUUVRXUFWKHFKXQXRFDXVEBEJXFWOKEHCEW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: A = O
TZALAPAOXLSOPCXPGSPCPAALXECATWLAPXKRXGPARXPHLAEIXZRX,LAGCXIOASPKLDALXECATWLAPKLNTASWPAXNOIKTLCTYWXIU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: C = E
QLVSTC,VIUQCWC,OMSVZMCFQUCJUSONLTPJAEECZNSEZMCOSGUPMLFCNSQTYCTNCPZMLZQLVGCYXUCNNOMLZQPSZSNKQZCZMCOSGUP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: S = E
BSNREAPGSHRSDAXUAWTSVRGOSWGKDZEPGVNAQSESPKISYEAWGEVPVRGJVXKAKLWXPKGNWNSDAKPBSSIJSLAAVQVXYWAGRSLVRGES.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: A = O
PHTEAFZJTAKHOJHKMWKHHDAOTHOQ,QEMQROWAZZAPROLQEHASRORAOAWAFKWKRHOJTQEHGTEAFZJUHZRHXHQEMQQEHGWAZZAPAFKT.
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)
- “The follies of youth have a basis in sound reason, just as much as the embarrassing questions put by babes and sucklings.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=L B=N C=D D=W E=X F=U G=F H=O I=Z J=T K=M L=K M=E N=S O=J P=R Q=Y R=H S=G T=C U=V V=Q W=A X=I Y=P Z=B
- “Words and acts are easily wrenched from their true significance; and they are all the language we have to come and go upon.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=X B=C C=P D=V E=O F=A G=I H=U I=S J=M K=G L=F M=Z N=Y O=D P=B Q=W R=H S=K T=R U=L V=T W=N X=E Y=J Z=Q
- “I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious to explain himself.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=O B=J C=H D=Y E=W F=Q G=R H=K I=L J=C K=A L=N M=V N=X O=P P=T Q=Z R=G S=U T=I U=F V=B W=S X=E Y=M Z=D
- “I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.”— William Shakespeare, 1606, Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=X C=E D=Q E=F F=V G=R H=J I=Y J=B K=P L=A M=H N=S O=W P=D Q=I R=Z S=O T=N U=L V=M W=G X=K Y=C Z=T
- “We must frequently take our bearings from these fixed stars of our political firmament if we expect to hold a true course.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=T B=W C=V D=N E=S F=Z G=R H=Q I=X J=P K=I L=C M=J N=M O=B P=F Q=H R=U S=E T=K U=Y V=O W=A X=L Y=D Z=G
- “We should so render a free consent, that in following the opinion of our friends they should believe that they follow ours.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=O B=J C=Z D=C E=H F=U G=Y H=E I=K J=D K=R L=G M=A N=X O=N P=W Q=T R=I S=P T=S U=B V=Q W=F X=V Y=M Z=L