Puzzle 1
Starter clue: C = T
FKHRWCUWEOHDWFQPECALHNCUAEPAOESHCZUAVUOWQVFXXWFLCU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 104
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: F = E
AKGCFN,EMQNFVTCSMOFUFNTKCWCWIAJFWPF,KWGBJGSFOMFRTCYF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: G = T
GLXUXCBIYONPWVGLNBNLYOXCICG,TYUGLYBXPLYRNITCIECGYVG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: W = T
VHWCDHLQVWAQWKUJWUDIQTXIJXHKQWHJCKAQKWPGJTWHTWUJTD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: H = E
DNPWMHQXMAJIAWZJNLIXHVHJIHKAIANZ,WGGCAQBHKWZKQPGGHK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: R = H
SRPKZFDSRAZMMTAPJRYWSYNMRSIPAWSKOZKERKEWRYFFKEASAW.
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)
- “Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot which men call earth.”— John Milton, 1637, Comus, Line 5 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=Y C=T D=K E=S F=A G=Q H=O I=J J=G K=B L=R M=X N=F O=M P=D Q=N R=V S=P T=Z U=H V=C W=E X=L Y=U Z=W
- “Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.”— John Milton, 1645, L'Allegro, Line 121 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=J C=I D=M E=W F=E G=D H=X I=F J=U K=A L=Q M=H N=S O=T P=C Q=O R=P S=G T=R U=Y V=B W=N X=V Y=Z Z=K
- “There is no law but has a hole in it, for those who can find it out.”— German proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=V B=S C=I D=M E=D F=J G=T H=G I=N J=Q K=Y L=H M=K N=A O=L P=W Q=Z R=C S=X T=F U=R V=U W=B X=E Y=O Z=P
- “Let us exalt patriotism and moderate our party contentions.”— Benjamin Harrison, 1889, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=P B=V C=U D=S E=Z F=J G=C H=E I=M J=O K=R L=X M=B N=F O=K P=Y Q=A R=W S=Q T=N U=I V=L W=T X=D Y=G Z=H
- “You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.”— Francois Rabelais, 1552, Works, Book IV, Chap. L (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=K C=P D=Y E=X F=V G=L H=E I=T J=S K=D L=F M=R N=O O=Z P=U Q=C R=W S=G T=Q U=J V=B W=A X=H Y=M Z=N
- “The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=I B=D C=J D=Y E=W F=L G=P H=B I=M J=F K=O L=X M=G N=U O=K P=E Q=C R=H S=T T=R U=Q V=Z W=S X=V Y=A Z=N