Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Y = T
MFYWJYDQCCYXAAOQWCFLSCJDJFYYWAKTWYDINMFTDJOYWAKTWYDYAYWCXMFO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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William Wordsworth Cryptograms Set 4
5 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: G = E
FAGLGTFEGEZUDBZQQOGUFVFAGBVVQ,ZTUAGZKGTEDPTZMOFAAGQBOEC-MAOFGEZBS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Z = R
LBZWOZKQFVNLZWEFZ'QVZWOLNFPPKRBZWOZKQFRLQHKJWO,LUCWHRLQUKHJWUIOKZF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: C = E
DVBPLCXFVCSHVWRCBNZWLACSOWLZXHPWK,LBSFVBJAVFBNFCLZCSVWRRXLCHHICFSWK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: A = N
WNQMAWQGGQFWREGUIPQV,WNVIRSNPIVZHEAZWNMASH,PQAWHIRAZMASIAEZMXEAZUQVMGIRHPEK!
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 (5 solutions)
- “In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.”— William Wordsworth, 1798, Lyrical Ballads, Lines written in Early Spring (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=Z C=E D=S E=K F=N G=X H=Q I=B J=A K=U L=P M=I N=R O=D P=Y Q=W R=V S=L T=G U=F V=J W=H X=M Y=T Z=C
- “The gentle Lady married to the Moor, And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb.”— William Wordsworth, 1807, Poems in Two Volumes, Personal Talk. Stanza 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=M C=K D=Y E=L F=T G=E H=Q I=J J=Z K=V L=G M=W N=S O=I P=U Q=R R=F S=B T=N U=D V=O W=X X=C Y=P Z=A
- “A primrose by a river's brim a yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.”— William Wordsworth, 1819, Peter Bell, Part I. Stanza 12 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=P C=D D=Z E=V F=E G=J H=T I=G J=H K=O L=A M=Q N=Y O=M P=L Q=S R=W S=U T=X U=N V=B W=I X=K Y=F Z=R
- “Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.”— William Wordsworth, 1807, Poems in Two Volumes, Character of the Happy Warrior (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=O C=E D=W E=J F=T G=X H=S I=B J=U K=Y L=N M=Q N=F O=C P=M Q=Z R=P S=R T=K U=L V=H W=A X=I Y=V Z=D
- “The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book III (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=Q C=X D=V E=A F=C G=L H=S I=O J=K K=Y L=J M=I N=H O=B P=W Q=E R=U S=G T=Z U=P V=R W=T X=M Y=F Z=D