Puzzle 1
Starter clue: G = E
EQGMFQGQVXUVFFGX,HYFGGZGXRHNGYQGPGVFHMLSOGBDKHFHYGZKFHP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 130
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: Z = N
ZJPARZDFCPJZRCAYCSYZCJSGLAFCLJSSJZ-CYZCYFZXONFRZXYFNRZD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: N = I
FUGAGNETWFUNTJTGL:KMMFUNTJEKAGCWFUIKBNMNKAKTPEUWAF-MNZGP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: B = H
HBUNGQUDPINQHBVHBULIUQPIHDPIN;HBUGEPIWVZSQHBGPDQBUDPINQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Z = T
ZBCZLBXDBBCQIPPKPCZPKSFZSHZBPJSZDCKKSZIPJFZXKZSZBPTXQB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = T
XGOGNNBIYAGRHIBYPMQZOEZGBIYP'MIQRMY,GDAGNNBIYSPQBIYPMBQQ.
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)
- “When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1847, Evangeline, Part I. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=X C=R D=Q E=W F=S G=E H=I I=Z J=B K=U L=G M=N N=K O=F P=C Q=H R=L S=O T=V U=P V=A W=J X=D Y=T Z=M
- “Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=H B=Z C=S D=G E=W F=A G=U H=B I=X J=O K=F L=C M=Q N=L O=P P=T Q=K R=I S=M T=R U=V V=Y W=J X=D Y=E Z=N
- “There is nothing new: all things are both familiar and short-lived.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=R B=M C=B D=P E=S F=T G=E H=J I=F J=G K=A L=W M=L N=I O=X P=D Q=C R=Z S=K T=N U=H V=Y W=O X=U Y=Q Z=V
- “The wise knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=Y B=H C=X D=K E=G F=V G=I H=T I=O J=L K=P L=D M=J N=W O=Q P=N Q=S R=B S=U T=C U=E V=A W=R X=F Y=Z Z=M
- “That which has been eaten out of the pot cannot be put into the dish.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=J B=H C=A D=C E=X F=U G=V H=F I=B J=P K=N L=W M=G N=K O=Y P=E Q=S R=Z S=O T=D U=M V=Q W=L X=I Y=R Z=T
- “I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too.”— William Shakespeare, 1601, Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=T C=Q D=N E=Y F=J G=A H=G I=H J=P K=X L=V M=S N=L O=M P=R Q=O R=U S=B T=K U=C V=W W=Z X=I Y=E Z=F