Puzzle 1
Starter clue: V = T
MVMYVTUTIEEMLUYYPWVTUPVTUFVTIVHIZUYTMYPKLHPYVMLVULYUBFIVMWMNIVMPL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 176
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: M = I
MRVZMGTOCOBFJWOLXBSKJGVJYOKST,MESXFLESKLOQKMVJGJKMQBCSPJPFORMEVMSK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = E
OLHNVTVJMWJJIHKARXHVOIHTHAWOOKVCHXWNV,VTPKAWCZKXOVTNHOKVJJOLHMKXJP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: X = E
IGXSTJINIKLXWZBWYIBXFNYPKIJYXETXILXYNTXWZTXEXNQNFSSTXJIXTPXFXZNIY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: O = E
CFOKONCDPWXVNCKODYCTJYQCFTPMNTPCFOSVBQWUDPPVCKONOOPPVBOIOPCVYUFOW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: O = A
XOECFCVNNVNGOI'NEGWVCEOTCOUVEINIOCV,OIPZVOYFMPCOQNYNQEFDONEISTVDOEC.
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)
- “It is the happiness of the other that makes his own most intense gratification.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=J B=G C=B D=U E=P F=R G=V H=M I=A J=Q K=W L=N M=I N=C O=Z P=O Q=X R=D S=Y T=H U=E V=T W=F X=L Y=S Z=K
- “If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.”— William Shakespeare, 1601, Twelfth Night, Act III. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=P C=R D=Z E=C F=L G=S H=X I=K J=A K=N L=D M=I N=Q O=E P=B Q=M R=F S=O T=W U=V V=T W=Y X=U Y=G Z=H
- “The canal will be of great benefit to America, and of importance to all the world.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1902, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=F B=U C=M D=Z E=V F=S G=X H=E I=B J=L K=O L=H M=W N=C O=T P=D Q=J R=G S=Y T=N U=Q V=A W=I X=R Y=K Z=P
- “The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 298 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=M C=W D=L E=C F=N G=H H=J I=T J=A K=U L=D M=Q N=I O=X P=B Q=V R=Z S=G T=R U=Y V=P W=O X=E Y=S Z=F
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched.”— Helen Keller, 1903, Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks, in The Story of My LifeCipher key: A=J B=R C=T D=A E=Q F=H G=X H=P I=V J=F K=B L=Y M=G N=S O=E P=N Q=L R=Z S=W T=I U=C V=O W=D X=M Y=U Z=K
- “Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.”— Alexander Pope, 1714, The Rape of the Lock, Canto II. Line 27 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=Z C=R D=H E=I F=T G=M H=X I=N J=O K=J L=Q M=Y N=S O=A P=D Q=W R=K S=G T=L U=C V=E W=P X=F Y=U Z=B