Puzzle 1
Starter clue: B = E
RBZIQBSZOJBRISZIXSVB,UYOOJBPDBQBRIKBGBEBQIXSZLQKBQOJIOOJBPRSCJOUBEIQSLYG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 195
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 = I
PJHQWLXDZDCLHSKIMDCG,ZGKLXDZDCLHSKBZHN,UDSBJG,UDSBJG,UDSBJG,NVYCMHCUDSBJGUHN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = A
DEDVPNBSLUBAEUKIHNPIUMLFPDQHUDLWDIIFEUPP,DEYFMDEPLFBBQULLWFPDEADGLUHENNE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: U = N
FG.HGMFBQUZSJRQJXQUCNQJDMROKGQCUKGSUYM;OKGDMDSRKUBPKUMQRMS,SURXDSXZSJZGKUC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: R = N
RKHPRGPRJWKZLGISWIPMMQVRSCBQKVCRKMMQKWKLSQONCVRGIWIVRZIPOVRSBVMQQVHCIOT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = O
FXBFMXIQMMUBCMBBVWBAIKALCBFBGCXAQCRIZBUXJXAMBBVHKNVIKALCBCZXQAKUNXGCBAG.
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)
- “Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=X B=E C=G D=W E=V F=C G=S H=P I=A J=H K=D L=O M=Q N=Z O=T P=Y Q=R R=M S=I T=J U=B V=K W=F X=L Y=U Z=N
- “Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray, Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.”— Thomas Middleton, 1616, The Witch, Act V. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=G C=T D=I E=Q F=J G=E H=A I=W J=L K=D L=S M=H N=Y O=V P=B Q=C R=X S=N T=Z U=M V=O W=K X=P Y=U Z=R
- “An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=Y B=L C=Q D=A E=N F=I G=F H=R I=P J=K K=W L=T M=C N=O O=Z P=S Q=G R=X S=U T=V U=E V=B W=H X=M Y=D Z=J
- “Mr. Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1845, Sybil, Book IV. Chap. V (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=L C=G D=H E=V F=M G=R H=K I=Z J=S K=O L=B M=E N=U O=F P=Y Q=I R=D S=A T=Q U=N V=J W=X X=T Y=C Z=W
- “No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”— James Russell Lowell, 1870, Among My Books, First Series. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=W C=S D=K E=X F=V G=C H=M I=E J=P K=O L=U M=T N=Y O=L P=A Q=H R=N S=G T=F U=B V=I W=R X=Z Y=J Z=D
- “People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”— Edmund Burke, 1790, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. III. p. 274 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=O C=T D=U E=G F=P G=S H=B I=W J=V K=A L=D M=L N=C O=X P=Q Q=I R=Y S=J T=Z U=N V=K W=F X=E Y=M Z=H