Puzzle 1
Starter clue: T = E
ETXZOPAWTRVDVACZBFKYRNFHBFAT,ETOTFAWAWTNZZPWZJBFH,-EYABFHFEZKTAWTNHTFA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 183
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: U = A
UEUMACBKREURQTYBGCKERTIGVUMTMNURBYYBAURTURKILURCTVUMKMWTMQUFITURDYT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: F = E
BSFIKEBS'IUPMITFFHIRBBSFCPEIFPJBSFSRKKFO,RCUQRVFIRBBSFMOECUECMPJBFFBS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: J = E
ZWQJTMJUEJSJMWCERPCLDTABWJZCWAUWCUJMCADJQ,TCBADJMJSJMZJPCTEEADTABWJZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: M = E
EMATGEZLBZMTISKWTUQMBVMVBTTGZPMPGSULZBZZLMVGDZGYGZLMKQMGQXM'DYKMMIGR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: O = E
EOMGFMQOHMMXOUOPHPVBRUOPBOEE;MQOHMMXOUHFNIMXODBOQOQOHE;JOQXHJFMXODHQO.
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)
- “Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far, - but far above the great.”— Thomas Gray, 1757, The Progress of Poesy, III. 3, Line 16 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=F C=S D=M E=B F=A G=C H=R I=J J=W K=V L=Z M=P N=G O=N P=D Q=K R=L S=X T=E U=Q V=I W=H X=Y Y=U Z=O
- “A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=W B=O C=H D=U E=M F=P G=F H=B I=L J=K K=I L=Y M=N N=D O=X P=Z Q=T R=S S=Q T=E U=A V=C W=V X=J Y=R Z=G
- “The smith's dog sleeps at the noise of the hammer, and wakes at the grinding of teeth.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=X B=T C=N D=J E=I F=E G=B H=P I=S J=F K=M L=C M=G N=Z O=R P=O Q=W R=A S=H T=L U=D V=K W=Y X=U Y=V Z=Q
- “Some are clever only in what does not concern them, and the reverse in all that does.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=T B=D C=N D=H E=L F=K G=J H=B I=X J=E K=F L=W M=R N=P O=Z P=I Q=M R=Y S=V T=A U=C V=U W=O X=G Y=Q Z=S
- “We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=K B=A C=Z D=S E=W F=J G=O H=V I=D J=Q K=R L=H M=E N=Y O=X P=B Q=P R=M S=U T=N U=G V=C W=I X=L Y=F Z=T
- “Let us treat the men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=Q B=W C=G D=Y E=L F=S G=U H=A I=F J=P K=J L=V M=T N=I O=E P=N Q=R R=O S=Z T=X U=M V=D W=C X=H Y=K Z=B