Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = E
TITZUTZHZQFXAPTGXHQHZVTXCPMHPXZHYKPPQCWXXAPPUCYHSPATEYWTQTZMWZTMPRLTYP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 193
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: D = T
BMZBDDWJAGVCBAGDWJ,YNXPBRWADNAOTBJWDXRJBYPWGBODNWEXKVNDDXQW,GXDBODNWEBJW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: P = I
PSPBKGKOEJKRPQNEOEOHPVI,PXQNMRSPVRPJPVAZWKOGJJQDKEJQBPJOMMQSZQNGBQGEWPC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Y = O
ZFXKTEJXIBWAGIYZFXIFYYUYPDWTEBYKIDYBZMIXNEYKBMYBBXBBEYT,QFWZZFXIXEBYPEZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: X = T
LXLODODNXTLQEXSXTLQFSB,RMXXTCYCLOQSNSMRXXTDXECQLMOUDOXOUSQECYXTDQRCDMXG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: J = E
RMXJZLGJLFMUFCJSJMSIJ,YWFCJSJMSIJ,UMZFCJSJMSIJ,BCPIILMFSJZQBCUZMGFCJJPZFC.
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 man can only speak so long as he does not feel his speech to be partial and inadequate.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=P B=J C=H D=W E=R F=Y G=K H=O I=M J=V K=F L=U M=D N=Z O=X P=E Q=L R=Q S=B T=A U=C V=G W=I X=S Y=T Z=N
- “A flattering painter, who made it his care to draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.”— Oliver Goldsmith, 1774, Retaliation, Line 63 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=A C=P D=T E=Y F=K G=N H=X I=J J=R K=U L=Q M=F N=H O=S P=M Q=B R=D S=V T=C U=Z V=G W=E X=O Y=W Z=L
- “If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.”— William Shakespeare, 1599, Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. Sc. 5 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=W C=P D=B E=S F=X G=R H=K I=G J=T K=E L=Q M=L N=U O=A P=I Q=O R=D S=F T=V U=J V=N W=H X=C Y=Z Z=Y
- “The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=L B=S C=G D=M E=I F=H G=B H=Q I=R J=V K=U L=K M=P N=C O=Y P=F Q=W R=Z S=X T=N U=D V=J W=A X=E Y=O Z=T
- “It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=Q B=F C=E D=A E=G F=K G=Y H=M I=V J=P K=C L=I M=U N=D O=S P=Z Q=N R=B S=O T=H U=L V=W W=J X=T Y=R Z=X
- “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1863, Gettysburg AddressCipher key: A=J B=S C=H D=C E=Z F=T G=M H=K I=L J=E K=D L=N M=O N=U O=W P=A Q=I R=G S=P T=X U=F V=Q W=Y X=V Y=B Z=R