Puzzle 1
Starter clue: H = S
YUHIZZIHULUNURVODZ,DUGZRYZHZVRYVRHYPRHHRUDDVHURFXZH,VLIDZVJZHLFRCVWRHLFCXCULRHFBXCZWZIZLRBFCXFFCNZL'HBVWRH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Truth Cryptograms Set 27
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: I = N
ESVPIIDZOSIJZRPZLDESYCQPWPVZDYCIEDYFOLDFCZCVQPIJGDYSZRPIESVPIOSIJCZQSNCQZSIVSPQPWPVZDYCIIPZCDIPFLDFCZCVQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: O = E
RGOKWZEMUKWZO,SWKPPOBCWTKOFUZICO,SPOBOWQQWZOXICIQZOKBMKPSWKPYGCFUPOSOWYPU,IQFUGCWFRMFFWQYIYIWQUKOJRKHRBIWUO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: K = E
RXFQLXKQFGLFFPIEMM,YNEKQNKRQPPKXFNTRNOVFLKVDKTFGGKTRQKUKT-TENDKTMEGKRQPKUKT-MRTLKTYRVEYGRNVEFQVFVDKEQPEUEPARM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: T = E
GBTQTYXWLGBYWOXLSLWHTQZNRYWVWIEVQGYUNRVQRVWHXUVETVXGBTWTUTXXYGILZPTYWOPTVNGYZNRNWHTQSBYUBTKTQIRVWHXUVETRYTX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: F = H
PKOKYFDHZXIJFDOKWNONKOKCYFNORXDXFZFDXUFKPKZXYFZZUQKOR,KQXIJFDXFZUNXFZXYFZZYKFDHZ,LIYTKKADYYFZEDXYFZVDQZNOYQIYF.
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)
- “His deeds inimitable, like the sea that shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.”— George Chapman, 1607, Bussy D'Ambois, Act I. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=F C=R D=L E=G F=O G=K H=S I=D J=V K=Q L=N M=Y N=M O=B P=U Q=X R=T S=W T=Z U=I V=A W=C X=P Y=H Z=E
- “We cannot deny that power is a factor in world politics any more than we can deny its existence as a factor in national politics.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=Z B=U C=I D=O E=W F=L G=M H=K I=N J=Y K=B L=P M=Q N=X O=D P=A Q=S R=H S=E T=J U=V V=C W=F X=G Y=R Z=T
- “Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale, Where in nice balance truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise.”— Alexander Pope, 1728, The Dunciad, Book I. Line 52 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=R C=L D=X E=J F=D G=O H=Y I=A J=M K=T L=Z M=U N=V O=E P=H Q=N R=P S=W T=F U=S V=Q W=I X=B Y=G Z=C
- “Among men of good will, science and democracy together offer an ever-richer life and ever-larger satisfaction to the individual.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937, Second Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=U B=Z C=X D=H E=I F=O G=F H=P I=W J=B K=E L=G M=L N=C O=Y P=D Q=N R=A S=Q T=R U=V V=T W=J X=M Y=S Z=K
- “There is nothing so wonderful in any particular landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=X B=H C=M D=K E=P F=J G=T H=D I=Y J=Q K=V L=O M=Z N=U O=G P=B Q=R R=L S=W T=E U=C V=A W=N X=S Y=I Z=F
- “Do not have such an opinion of things as he has who does thee wrong, or such as he wishes thee to have, but look at them as they are in truth.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=K B=J C=F D=A E=M F=H G=X H=V I=U J=C K=O L=B M=Q N=I O=N P=D Q=R R=G S=Z T=L U=W V=Y W=P X=S Y=T Z=E