Puzzle 1
Starter clue: G = E
YVGQTKPAZYGGKKGEYOQAOKYVGKWOJOYPSZEOYGHGSSPJYQEHKOEMAGEGKKPSWZJWPKG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 185
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: W = E
UBXPKXLJJMWVOWBJNOWLYVPOVNUKJBXVWK.VPOVNUKJBXVWKBOWJMWVOWBJNOWKLYUWX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: T = U
LTYRVTKOZHAITJXQERYVRVTKOZY,ZHADEVMERJHRVTKLTKDC,ZHARVTMJEEYZQCHVOZKF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Q = A
TXTWQHQDTHSEYXMRECQPPQFFLBXQXTEAXMQXQHQAHQRMQULXMQXQPPESQAFLMLXQNLW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: T = E
XTOB-UFLTIKHTKSNFTXKFSJKNXMFCONKFSPHAOZSMTCXTFBAFOPSPEJOJUTKEPTXJOFKT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Z = N
OPMCCSQGZRCEA,MZRSZMQEZRUMZ'OWGT,ASDPQMDGRQFGMDPMZRAPSOLGFSZKPNUQCGZGOO.
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)
- “The absolute essential is the spirit of united effort and singleness of purpose.”— William Howard Taft, 1912, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=L B=V C=K D=J E=N F=C G=E H=D I=Y J=R K=S L=X M=G N=W O=I P=O Q=A R=Q S=F T=B U=Z V=H W=P X=M Y=T Z=U
- “Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1826, Vivian Grey, Book VI. Chap. VII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=A C=W D=L E=P F=X G=Q H=K I=J J=T K=S L=O M=H N=U O=R P=I Q=Z R=G S=B T=V U=M V=C W=E X=N Y=F Z=D
- “Put your hand quickly to your hat, and slowly in your purse, and you will take no harm.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=D B=Z C=E D=S E=L F=M G=V H=N I=Q J=I K=R L=P M=W N=G O=H P=B Q=K R=Y S=F T=U U=J V=O W=X X=C Y=T Z=A
- “It is a maxim worthy of all acceptation that a man may have that allowance he takes.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=N B=P C=F D=X E=O F=C G=U H=M I=B J=Q K=J L=E M=H N=K O=D P=L Q=A R=Y S=W T=I U=V V=Z W=S X=T Y=R Z=G
- “Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone.”— Herbert Hoover, 1929, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=P B=F C=U D=Q E=C F=O G=B H=M I=R J=A K=N L=V M=H N=D O=L P=I Q=Z R=W S=T T=E U=G V=K W=X X=S Y=J Z=Y
- “Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, The Merchant of Venice, Act I. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=F C=L D=T E=O F=R G=E H=V I=J J=C K=G L=P M=A N=U O=S P=H Q=B R=D S=I T=Y U=M V=Z W=K X=Q Y=X Z=N