Puzzle 1
Starter clue: U = E
BNUNOKXUZBJLOHESUBUVU,BNOBYKJJRZOTRZAUUFZJTNSZJCTNUOKB.
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William Wordsworth Cryptograms Set 3
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: V = E
HJVVSVHSTVIWREVHUBVSCWHVSCUSUBVZPREHSUGMVTURVTWBVHJVVS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: M = E
WMEQTEQTFOMJTRWMTQOONOBLTHHIFJEQFNAFPMMRMTRWJORWMNTHPO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: M = E
JLSSKYMPKFKNRMWYDWIMKMXJMDXMG,JHXHPOMKTDKIMKMXYDWXMWIMOKMG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: F = E
XVFQF'MMIHFXVWSCWSDABJWSCVIQMF,XVFQF'MMIHFXVWSCWSDVECFKDBBIIS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: E = T
DIEUMFUOETDFOUEMTL,-DOEWV,DNCMQ;EZWHMEUMFMYDHPOICW,EZUOQDLMTEZDE.
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 harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.”— William Wordsworth, 1800, Lyrical Ballads (1800), A Poet's Epitaph. Stanza 13 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=T C=W D=X E=U F=P G=K H=Q I=M J=O K=R L=F M=Z N=H O=A P=C Q=G R=D S=I T=N U=E V=Y W=J X=V Y=B Z=S
- “Sweetest melodies are those that are by distance made more sweet.”— William Wordsworth, 1807, Poems in Two Volumes, Personal Talk. Stanza 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=R C=H D=G E=I F=Q G=N H=S I=L J=W K=X L=V M=C N=P O=F P=Y Q=U R=D S=T T=M U=A V=E W=O X=J Y=K Z=B
- “He murmurs near the running brooks a music sweeter than their own.”— William Wordsworth, 1800, Lyrical Ballads (1800), A Poet's Epitaph. Stanza 10 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=G C=P D=F E=M F=S G=D H=O I=K J=A K=Q L=B M=E N=I O=N P=W Q=U R=T S=Z T=R U=L V=Y W=H X=V Y=J Z=X
- “Full twenty times was Peter feared, For once that Peter was respected.”— William Wordsworth, 1819, Peter Bell, Part I. Stanza 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=X C=J D=A E=Q F=Y G=D H=O I=P J=F K=T L=U M=E N=I O=C P=N Q=K R=M S=L T=H U=V V=Z W=S X=R Y=W Z=B
- “There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.”— William Wordsworth, 1819, Peter Bell, Prologue. Stanza 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=L C=G D=A E=U F=E G=Q H=M I=O J=Y K=B L=P M=S N=W O=X P=K Q=R R=Z S=N T=V U=D V=H W=I X=T Y=C Z=J
- “Action is transitory, - a step, a blow; The motion of a muscle, this way or that.”— William Wordsworth, 1842, The Borderers, Act III (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=J C=L D=A E=T F=N G=Q H=M I=C J=G K=X L=Y M=O N=B O=S P=U Q=W R=D S=K T=R U=I V=P W=E X=Z Y=F Z=H