Puzzle 1
Starter clue: F = E
MJYFBFOZIMFLEFOQV,QRGMBFOHRMBSJOF;GJCBRXLFECXCQFLEFOQV,VXZLA,JLECXGJRO!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 182
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: Y = A
QUZNJYWEMFYVQAZMZYFXYSZRMPXYLQQC;FMZRZGQUNXYNRMPX;YUNYFMPJNNJQKURMPX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: M = E
OBWYFBHJQSMXBMWSYBMHSUWSMXYCCWZRZYBMNHSMCHQMYBMZSMUMWYHXYBMBHPBOWZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = E
FOOFAGGMXFOOPGDBLBOGEBYBVGKYJBGALDZSFAGFDETAYBGSBLYDYKBVGZYIGADNGDB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: F = E
VBHFBQFCYXFTF,CQIOCOFHABQFCYXXCQI,RXFTHCNF,HFYBRF,CQIWCIIFQHDZQIRXFJCQI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: K = E
PYKRWKSKPUTPPALKYLKOPIFACKNPGKNKNPGHCFKZJHYHNPYINKYZHLJWTJHLZJKNPPY.
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)
- “Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair!”— Thomas Hood, 1844, The Bridge of Sighs (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=H C=S D=Q E=D F=E G=F H=W I=P J=A K=X L=N M=T N=B O=R P=J Q=L R=I S=C T=M U=Z V=Y W=V X=O Y=K Z=U
- “One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.”— William Shakespeare, 1601, Twelfth Night, Act I. Sc. 5 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=P C=L D=Z E=G F=T G=C H=J I=Y J=R K=W L=F M=H N=D O=Q P=I Q=O R=S S=K T=X U=N V=B W=U X=M Y=A Z=E
- “What children hear their parents say by the fireside they repeat in the highway.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=J B=H C=S D=U E=V F=C G=X H=I I=Z J=L K=M L=O M=E N=F O=W P=G Q=D R=B S=R T=K U=P V=Q W=A X=N Y=T Z=Y
- “All are equally entitled to the fostering care and protection of the Government.”— James K. Polk, 1845, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=R B=T C=K D=N E=D F=A G=E H=W I=V J=S K=F L=I M=Q N=M O=L P=Y Q=J R=X S=C T=P U=B V=H W=Z X=U Y=O Z=G
- “Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.”— Alexander Pope, 1735, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires. Line 5 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=I C=A D=O E=G F=E G=B H=R I=D J=L K=Z L=W M=X N=V O=P P=J Q=N R=T S=K T=Y U=Q V=F W=M X=H Y=C Z=U
- “One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=D B=X C=B D=V E=Y F=L G=R H=A I=U J=H K=E L=S M=Q N=M O=W P=O Q=J R=P S=C T=G U=F V=K W=I X=Z Y=N Z=T