Puzzle 1
Starter clue: O = E
VROEKXIBEOHJPSHYOAVTOHJISXXJZOXSYIQIRROQVHAVJWOXR,KQIWKOQVJBHOPOWWSQVXBRIXXIMW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Ulysses S. Grant Cryptograms Set 2
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: F = A
BLNUBLNIHIJBLQVFQDFTIPHKXUBXSBNRKCTDKCJICNKUCELICKUHFXVQFD,KXCHNXFCKBXFQFXVQBUFQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: I = T
IPNKGGWMSUIPGMIPNKGFNCDZNDIHSDDGIXNFUGRSINWIGASCWHCNWUIGCVAUIPGEIDSIUGDSRWUVKCSHN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = O
YCEGQEGHWSUGMSGVWNDPWSUWPWBWZIGRJZMGPGJEGOYGDVIZQVVGWRRWNSDZIZVSUWYPVSPYNSNGEVSPDNSYGE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: X = E
WVXRQTWEXTKPEJXTKOWVXSQWMKS,AKWVLXRXZKDXLQSLPSLXRXZKDXL,KPYVWWKGQBXKPEJEXLMWWVXAXTWKSXQEWV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: R = E
NMRNTHRUTXQURTYNFJAKDTRJNARQQXIJAJNYXAYQNXERIXHAKYANMRRORGJNYXAJAKRKHBJNYXAXIYNQOJEXTRTQ.
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)
- “If employment can be given to all the labor offering itself, prosperity necessarily follows.”— Ulysses S. Grant, 1874, Sixth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=G B=Y C=Q D=K E=M F=Z G=D H=N I=O J=T K=P L=U M=W N=X O=E P=C Q=R R=F S=A T=V U=J V=I W=S X=L Y=B Z=H
- “Our course should always be in conformity with strict justice and law, international and local.”— Ulysses S. Grant, 1869, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=P B=O C=T D=W E=J F=A G=Q H=E I=S J=H K=I L=U M=V N=R O=X P=B Q=L R=M S=F T=Y U=C V=D W=Z X=N Y=G Z=K
- “The good faith of the Government can not be violated toward creditors without national disgrace.”— Ulysses S. Grant, 1874, Sixth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=W B=X C=R D=N E=U F=V G=O H=C I=T J=P K=G L=Q M=F N=E O=Y P=H Q=J R=L S=A T=K U=I V=S W=D X=B Y=Z Z=M
- “I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction.”— Ulysses S. Grant, 1869, From the Inaugural Address, March 4, 1869 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=P C=K D=U E=N F=Y G=O H=M I=L J=B K=G L=V M=D N=C O=X P=R Q=W R=F S=T T=J U=H V=S W=E X=Q Y=I Z=A
- “The vast resources of the nation, both developed and undeveloped, ought to make our credit the best on earth.”— Ulysses S. Grant, 1869, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=B B=K C=J D=P E=R F=X G=M H=Q I=Y J=C K=O L=D M=I N=Z O=F P=U Q=A R=V S=N T=S U=W V=H W=T X=E Y=G Z=L
- “The true prosperity and greatness of a nation is to be found in the elevation and education of its laborers.”— Ulysses S. Grant, 1871, Third Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=N B=C C=Z D=G E=B F=Y G=V H=U I=F J=A K=D L=W M=H N=T O=L P=J Q=S R=E S=Q T=R U=P V=M W=K X=O Y=I Z=X