Puzzle 1
Starter clue: J = I
PVAJVSBPGDAYHKTHJPVTVOQAXJALBTOYJDAVAOJVRPLTJRB,TVOLTJRBQAMPGATDTHHJPVTRAJVRKJRJPV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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William Wordsworth Cryptograms Set 6
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: S = O
SQIUOBXMFIVYSOHZIYQHMGSSKOHRWIHEDRSXOSYISVOHQ,SVOSYHMIZUMHQKSVJSSK,WDHQHMMWDIFHJIFEHQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: A = O
PWGHWZNMJPGAVJFOJZWHHJNF,MZYDTDSEAHGMPSJPBJNFFAADSAVZBSAGMUWYJTNJPPAHFAAHWQMYMWSOWBBMZJPP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: S = E
WVSDSJUZQFHFDNJOUSQK-PJUBDZJUS;ZOPJOTZDPUSQK-PJUBZDZMSXSOWZKKGDPUWGXSPJWZWJISUBQSSOZMDZWSKFQKSZUW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Z = A
KTUZGGTFUZYFPAPOZAZSALRLQNJDZEP:LYZEXZOOTKZYHZOYLA-AUJSPXZD,ZYNJYSUPFXTOSZQRQLLNZYLSUPXZYNSUPOZDP!
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)
- “One in whom persuasion and belief had ripened into faith, and faith become a passionate intuition.”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book IV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=H C=Z D=P E=Y F=V G=M H=S I=X J=I K=U L=F M=C N=K O=D P=O Q=B R=T S=W T=A U=J V=N W=G X=L Y=R Z=Q
- “One impulse from a vernal wood may teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.”— William Wordsworth, 1798, Lyrical Ballads, The Tables Turned (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=P C=K D=H E=C F=S G=W H=A I=E J=G K=D L=J M=L N=B O=M P=Q Q=N R=Y S=O T=X U=I V=F W=T X=U Y=R Z=V
- “Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect to our own prodigal excess of too familiar happiness.”— William Wordsworth, 1807, Poems in Two Volumes, Ode to Lycoris (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=P C=Z D=U E=Y F=T G=D H=F I=B J=E K=J L=K M=I N=C O=H P=S Q=M R=V S=R T=X U=G V=W W=A X=Q Y=L Z=N
- “There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords to meditative spleen a grateful feast.”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book IV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=P C=Q D=R E=K F=U G=O H=X I=V J=I K=F L=B M=G N=Y O=N P=D Q=L R=Z S=E T=W U=S V=H W=T X=M Y=C Z=A
- “By happy chance we saw a twofold image: on a grassy bank a snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood another and the same!”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book IX (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=X C=U D=M E=G F=C G=P H=K I=J J=I K=B L=O M=Q N=D O=S P=E Q=L R=F S=T T=Y U=H V=Z W=V X=R Y=N Z=A