Puzzle 1
Starter clue: V = O
EBV,FVVITFKVCVUJQVIRYJHEUKBRYUJYJFDTYZYJFGXVVFPBTF,-IUPTZYGXTKZYUJ!-KNZJPBUPJTQTPPUKHKVCXVZUVNPCYUJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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William Wordsworth Cryptograms Set 7
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: F = O
TI!TI!QKOSBDGR,MGRVTBUKFTSAFFCY,FSYTSDWKKFT'WWJSFXRFTAWD!TI!TI!QKOSBDGR,MGRZWDMSKFTSWFFCY!XEKMWWUEBYUFBWMGRUSFTAWD?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: P = E
VDPUFAYOTGHVAPWWDAZPOTNIV,TACPWVOFW;VDPXDOFAVAPWVDOVWNNVDPOZGDPOTOZGETPWWOFPWXOVVPFPGOVVDPIPPVNIYOZTACPITNMPFW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: P = E
CMEKEVJBJCGBPUAGCDPNEWPFCCSPZ,EMZKPFA,EGVNEWPNPEJZANPDGEO,EGVKANPDCWVMLAVDPNEZHPPMEANVMLEGGAPEZKEGAEGANPGUPMPCMXNVUNANPOLEQPZANPDGPFWPGEXEO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: W = E
XVWNNFDQNXWUFPCPCWB,ODLWPWZDOVEZOFNW,UCKQOTWINDKXVWZVKTWN,ODLDKXVWZHOZWN!-PCWEKWPN,UCKKDWOZPCCOTWBOLWINCWFZNKJPZIPCODLEIZWLWVFQCPXMCWOTWDVMVOMN.
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)
- “Who, doomed to go in company with Pain and Fear and Bloodshed, - miserable train! - Turns his necessity to glorious gain.”— William Wordsworth, 1807, Poems in Two Volumes, Character of the Happy Warrior (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=H C=G D=F E=W F=D G=B H=Y I=M J=N K=T L=V M=Q N=U O=Z P=S Q=C R=P S=X T=E U=I V=O W=J X=L Y=A Z=R
- “Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?”— William Wordsworth, 1798, Lyrical Ballads, The Tables Turned (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=I C=K D=E E=H F=O G=N H=J I=P J=G K=Y L=Z M=A N=X O=F P=V Q=M R=D S=R T=U U=T V=Q W=L X=W Y=S Z=C
- “The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe and heal and bless are scattered at the feet of man like flowers.”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book IX (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=V C=K D=H E=B F=R G=D H=U I=F J=Z K=G L=Y M=W N=O O=A P=E Q=X R=J S=Q T=L U=P V=T W=S X=C Y=M Z=N
- “On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been a thing as steadfast as the scene on which they gazed themselves away.”— William Wordsworth, 1819, Peter Bell, Part I. Stanza 16 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=P C=O D=M E=A F=L G=S H=B I=X J=R K=F L=G M=N N=H O=Y P=E Q=Z R=U S=K T=Q U=C V=I W=V X=W Y=J Z=D
- “Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares! - The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.”— William Wordsworth, 1807, Poems in Two Volumes, Personal Talk. Stanza 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=M C=H D=N E=P F=I G=Q H=C I=U J=F K=O L=D M=Y N=S O=A P=T Q=G R=Z S=X T=V U=W V=L W=E X=B Y=J Z=R