Puzzle 1
Starter clue: C = O
XBMNNGXDHCGJXVDJNMHEJDDCNOWNIDBFTTICCWNMXDHCGBMCAXTTEMCFWV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 155
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: O = E
PQOAO'NNIROPQDMTDMZBEWDMTQIANO,PQOAO'NNIROPQDMTDMZQCTOUZEEIIM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: N = T
TNTMNFFQENINFNKCFXXENICFZNKIHTZVICMXKIZNKIKFJMITMAJCZNVFXZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = T
AGABLFGXPBSGFBGDPAQOGXLALGOXFPZGOXVDFFZGOPGQDXRALGOXBPTIALQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: F = N
DMQQMNGWGVQBMNNUFLPFOPJNPIFQGDVM,QBGFGTNMWBXURMPFGFPQBMNEGF'W.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: E = I
LNRFZESELCIZOLSECLEFWEFQMEARSFOBOMPEFRARSEMXSROFEMTEMIRSACS.
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)
- “A free nation has the right to expect full cooperation from all groups.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=M B=F C=O D=T E=G F=U G=N H=I I=C J=H K=D L=Z M=R N=E O=X P=J Q=K R=Y S=W T=L U=V V=S W=P X=A Y=B Z=Q
- “There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.”— William Wordsworth, 1819, Peter Bell, Prologue. Stanza 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=F C=U D=I E=L F=X G=C H=Q I=O J=V K=P L=D M=N N=S O=E P=T Q=H R=M S=K T=G U=B V=W W=Y X=J Y=Z Z=A
- “It is too late to throw water on the cinders when the house is burnt down.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=B B=M C=R D=K E=A F=O G=Q H=C I=E J=U K=H L=V M=S N=T O=G P=X Q=L R=F S=Z T=I U=J V=D W=Y X=W Y=P Z=N
- “It is not easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling.”— Gaelic proverb, 1859, Recorded in Walter K. Kelly, Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, Explained, and Illustrated (London, 1859)Cipher key: A=I B=S C=D D=R E=U F=O G=T H=M I=L J=Q K=J L=N M=V N=Z O=H P=A Q=G R=W S=Y T=P U=X V=C W=F X=E Y=B Z=K
- “Better a salt herring on your own table, than a fresh pike on another man's.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=D B=H C=X D=B E=M F=N G=A H=V I=W J=U K=Q L=G M=E N=R O=Y P=O Q=T R=K S=C T=F U=I V=L W=S X=P Y=Z Z=J
- “The spirit of patriotism is universal and is ever increasing in fervor.”— William McKinley, 1897, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=V B=L C=O D=K E=I F=S G=J H=Y I=F J=Q K=B L=T M=N N=H O=A P=D Q=U R=E S=R T=G U=X V=W W=M X=C Y=Z Z=P