Puzzle 1
Starter clue: W = E
BIWZDMCJCSZKIWQYBCNHYWTHSUQABWYCBLQMIWQYRSHZHYW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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William Wordsworth 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: X = T
NYQFEYAXDSJXYXDFVSKDXYEXDSJKT,VFXJBXLAFZFUYLAXFBNDFA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: A = T
IDYJWDTAOVADVAMFXDXBXFGWGNXAFVHAOXOXVFAAOVAQYBXGOXF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Q = E
IYIWLQZQQYZTARLQQMANGBQZDQMXIBZIWXRTWAFXQWDDT-YTMMTHZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Q = E
IJWFQUOZQWGCQCOBKFUUQMFEBZMFPQ,GEPGFMODJSQICOWDFKPMQE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: K = E
PXIEPKFIHAWQANKWLMHKAJXHWLKWTIOKVXKHKWPXIYIHAEQWHDNKQ.
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 music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.”— William Wordsworth, 1807, Poems in Two Volumes, The Solitary Reaper (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=T C=I D=U E=Z F=J G=X H=O I=H J=C K=Y L=W M=S N=B O=V P=Q Q=A R=D S=N T=L U=G V=K W=E X=P Y=R Z=M
- “Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.”— William Wordsworth, 1798, Lyrical Ballads, The Tables Turned (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=A C=D D=H E=F F=E G=K H=W I=X J=N K=G L=U M=P N=C O=Z P=Q Q=M R=V S=I T=S U=Y V=L W=J X=T Y=O Z=B
- “Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”— William Wordsworth, 1798, Lyrical Ballads, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=V C=S D=N E=Q F=R G=D H=Y I=K J=W K=C L=J M=U N=B O=H P=F Q=L R=P S=X T=G U=Z V=A W=I X=E Y=O Z=M
- “A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book VII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=Y C=P D=T E=V F=I G=L H=W I=A J=K K=Q L=H M=R N=U O=G P=J Q=E R=C S=X T=O U=B V=Z W=N X=D Y=M Z=S
- “Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book III (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=G C=M D=H E=N F=I G=A H=Z I=S J=O K=L L=F M=R N=W O=Y P=D Q=E R=K S=P T=J U=T V=Q W=C X=U Y=V Z=B
- “Choice word and measured phrase above the reach of ordinary men.”— William Wordsworth, 1807, Poems in Two Volumes, Resolution and Independence. Stanza 14 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=Z C=G D=Y E=I F=W G=K H=R I=O J=P K=E L=S M=U N=M O=V P=C Q=N R=L S=Q T=B U=J V=T W=A X=H Y=F Z=X