Puzzle 1
Starter clue: U = T
BHUIIAYZIXEUSLZ,DWUXIUIRUSLZ;BXYHSGIWAIRUSIWESUHMSBTSMLGLXIUUSLBGUSIWESUH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 196
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: B = R
JLOQTMMHQELTBBTBTPCLTXOXLFMSDBTCXJLBOFJXJLOPTBKTBQFQMCFQMOBHQEGFXXOQEOB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = E
FCKBFKBEBKMCWDONLOIYBWOKRMSH,GZHSOTCICHHECQQBFKBKCOWHSOKQYBWMBHHCKSCOTCK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: X = E
AVRQKXVKHXPXGVAXPJFCIEKQQYIVEZYYJWNFZNFWXRQXOQVVYXJWNHMNFQYXKIVRXVDHNDX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: W = O
KFKXLPDROWWTNWDRWIFWYPKEFUPCMR,METFWSEWCCUMFHPWHJPXMRWNRWIYPUKETRWIDYMGS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: M = I
MAMJJWOJOUCCBOMTFHHNVQYJMCMOWYLNZHJJHACBOX,CBOMTDYNVQYJMCMOWYLNYKHMNCBOX.
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)
- “I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.”— Lord Byron, 1816, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III, Stanza 113 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=I C=Z D=B E=G F=K G=R H=S I=O J=P K=Q L=E M=W N=J O=V P=X Q=L R=F S=H T=C U=T V=Y W=U X=N Y=A Z=M
- “The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.”— John Milton, 1637, Comus, Line 38 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=R C=W D=B E=G F=A G=P H=I I=Q J=T K=L L=H M=D N=J O=E P=F Q=N R=V S=Y T=O U=Z V=K W=M X=S Y=C Z=U
- “We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=J B=O C=E D=C E=L F=W G=B H=T I=S J=K K=N L=P M=G N=M O=A P=X Q=D R=I S=H T=V U=Z V=Y W=R X=Q Y=F Z=U
- “Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=M B=Q C=K D=F E=U F=N G=C H=L I=R J=A K=P L=X M=Y N=I O=D P=B Q=T R=S S=Z T=J U=W V=O W=V X=E Y=H Z=G
- “It is very good for you to be in the way, and to know what people say of you behind your back.”— Oscar Wilde, 1895, An Ideal HusbandCipher key: A=Z B=J C=W D=R E=N F=T G=C H=P I=U J=L K=I L=V M=A N=F O=G P=E Q=M R=Y S=K T=D U=H V=Q W=O X=S Y=B Z=X
- “I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=W B=H C=T D=B E=P F=G G=Z H=O I=Y J=L K=V L=N M=I N=D O=E P=K Q=U R=X S=J T=R U=C V=Q W=S X=M Y=A Z=F