Puzzle 1
Starter clue: H = L
RHHNISEUBRPVPVCOINUKMFMHJQVJUJVHAORVIRHKMTUMBPUAWIUPVKINUBPRHPVUMHHPCMVSM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 200
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: X = E
YZGGNCMGZKXWNAXMXJEXGLLCSWCCJGZMJGLKXZUG:LDXGDZWWCBUFKUFK,EFLLDXJXXYZKXJFUE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: I = E
VBPXIZIYRXKJIQIWXK,XBINIYRXKFKXINRKWIYXPRLSFXEGIMYIQIYYIJXEXBIKMERSKKFKXIN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Y = N
VNHFYVHCCHLVIJCKROHM,VNMRITNORMSUJYSVNFYTU,OHYVURIYSFYTRYJSFDJYSKHMFCRIUOJE!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: B = E
XBDWBGQVDWUOBCALUISYBIQUADJJACMISLOMBWCDKBKUEAAPSVXBMWAJBBPXSUOCAPBWDUSAK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = A
KJMDEJQHKGRBOHVIGUKBXXBV,YHVIBOGSJFNDEBFOJMQGGM,-KJMDEJQ,BRQVBI,BRQRGIETRZFGMJ.
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)
- “All such training must develop not only manual dexterity but industrial intelligence.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1906, Sixth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=Y B=R C=G D=F E=H F=V G=J H=L I=U J=O K=D L=W M=E N=S O=M P=I Q=P R=A S=C T=X U=T V=N W=B X=Q Y=Z Z=K
- “Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”— Sir Walter Raleigh, 1655, Poems, The Silent Lover (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=W C=O D=H E=B F=U G=S H=Q I=Y J=D K=R L=T M=N N=I O=V P=G Q=X R=J S=F T=C U=M V=Z W=L X=E Y=P Z=A
- “Whatever its defects, the merit system is certainly to be preferred to the spoils system.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1924, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=X B=H C=Z D=U E=O F=Y G=B H=Q I=E J=D K=S L=N M=P N=M O=G P=A Q=F R=I S=L T=K U=J V=W W=C X=T Y=R Z=V
- “The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book III (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=X C=L D=M E=Y F=I G=J H=E I=U J=A K=P L=C M=R N=H O=W P=F Q=Z R=O S=D T=G U=S V=T W=V X=Q Y=N Z=B
- “We are by far the most likely to accomplish permanent good if we proceed with moderation.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=O B=E C=M D=A E=G F=X G=B H=Q I=L J=C K=N L=S M=P N=Z O=H P=D Q=Y R=J S=I T=V U=T V=F W=R X=W Y=K Z=U
- “Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door, - Perched, and sat, and nothing more.”— Edgar Allan Poe, 1845, The Raven (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=A C=X D=C E=H F=M G=O H=U I=T J=E K=P L=Q M=R N=Y O=B P=K Q=D R=N S=V T=I U=F V=S W=Z X=L Y=J Z=G