Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = H
NPWIOVULDVGMPOGEPUILWGE,NPWDNPWYPOGEULPULWRJYWLLUDV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 106
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: S = E
SBSUOTNDKAFVCDAYUWDMRAKSVVNRYINY,WPOAFYUWSCIWRTSYNV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Z = E
ANZGQNZBVCERPWXNRXMFAEZQQNZBFTSZTEVVWFBQZTNRXIZZXZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: V = L
JOXMMLVPKYOVERYWVXPWVYRQGSWTLSXOVWKXPYRVZYRYRLPGEL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: K = E
GTFLHTKGFVLNKITDEC:TVKNZGLNKBJDGK,LNKTLNKDNZGLNKHTEC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Q = T
DQDFQATZJHKTFFDJH,HJQQATLPDTFQ,QAGQBDOTFEFGCFJMEQDJH.
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 man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=K B=C C=D D=O E=F F=G G=L H=U I=M J=P K=Z L=S M=Y N=T O=A P=H Q=W R=X S=J T=V U=I V=N W=E X=B Y=R Z=Q
- “Every man would not ring so well as that, if you tried his metal.”— George Eliot, 1872, MiddlemarchCipher key: A=O B=V C=D D=N E=P F=U G=X H=B I=H J=C K=W L=Q M=G N=A O=Y P=F Q=J R=S S=E T=M U=R V=L W=I X=Z Y=T Z=K
- “When the fox licks his paw let the farmer look after his geese.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=W B=F C=X D=Q E=L F=A G=N H=Y I=G J=D K=V L=U M=P N=H O=J P=C Q=T R=I S=M T=R U=B V=O W=K X=S Y=Z Z=E
- “Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 496 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=V C=P D=K E=D F=C G=I H=X I=B J=Q K=W L=E M=R N=Z O=U P=S Q=G R=N S=F T=H U=M V=L W=T X=A Y=O Z=Y
- “So it goes in the world: one has the purse, the other has the gold.”— German proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=C B=P C=D D=R E=L F=I G=S H=G I=W J=U K=E L=T M=Q N=H O=V P=Y Q=X R=B S=F T=O U=K V=N W=J X=M Y=Z Z=A
- “It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=H B=G C=B D=I E=U F=S G=A H=N I=Y J=O K=F L=P M=L N=D O=V P=R Q=T R=W S=X T=E U=K V=Q W=Z X=M Y=J Z=C