Puzzle 1
Starter clue: B = E
SBLBEFGJYPPJQGTAXJMMCEXBPUBX,YTWJQYJSQGOQSBOYPPXGTGTMJQBEXGXBZLBEGFBTJKMECX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 202
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: Z = E
IDHHRBBRYWDHFQYZBNGDWLEZFDXZDNGWZYZXOZIGGWLIGWZPDEZ;GWLGRY,FDXZJILEZGWLINDDB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = E
KAWTDXPLMDXYNRYWWTDRWTDVDWWDZLRCBDZ,XYNPLXCLXWTDXLZDRYWWTDPDRXYNWYYMWTDPAYZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: L = E
DUEEUNHMNJMQUGUVRFEYGLFVRGLMSFEBVILLFGVIRHMLLH,ZNVISILHSLSFBLFHXSILHSLMELLQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: O = E
LQOHVOSLAZAZYTOOXOLTA,LGUESLAZAZYTOOQOHVOA,LYUTAOZYTOOGUEA,LHGLILHZYTOOYUTAOA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: S = H
UATTWW,KSZUSIDYWBJSWGAHZJZUZDCKZBW,DCVBWWJSOALFSDHHJSZCFBKZJSSZBSDHT-BSLJWMWB.
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)
- “We permit all things to ourselves, and that which we call sin in others is experiment for us.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=G B=E C=U D=Q E=R F=M G=I H=Y I=J J=T K=F L=P M=O N=Z O=C P=L Q=H R=K S=W T=N U=V V=B W=D X=S Y=A Z=X
- “Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.”— Christopher Marlowe, 1633, The Jew of Malta, Act II (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=L C=U D=O E=V F=M G=T H=W I=N J=K K=G L=A M=C N=F O=P P=D Q=Y R=I S=X T=Z U=J V=Q W=H X=R Y=S Z=E
- “If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for.”— William Shakespeare, 1599, Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=W C=S D=E E=D F=L G=Z H=V I=P J=G K=I L=A M=K N=U O=X P=M Q=C R=N S=J T=H U=Q V=B W=T X=Y Y=O Z=R
- “Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.”— John Milton, 1667, Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 677 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=K C=Z D=M E=L F=A G=R H=N I=H J=F K=V L=E M=S N=O O=J P=X Q=P R=U S=W T=Y U=I V=T W=Q X=D Y=C Z=B
- “A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse three dogs, and a man three horses.”— German proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=S B=Z C=J D=Q E=G F=V G=D H=N I=M J=I K=U L=A M=P N=W O=E P=X Q=F R=B S=L T=R U=O V=C W=K X=Y Y=H Z=T
- “Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”— Alexander Pope, 1714, The Rape of the Lock, Canto III. Line 117 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=S C=N D=A E=B F=G G=P H=L I=M J=T K=W L=U M=Y N=V O=R P=X Q=Z R=Q S=H T=F U=C V=D W=E X=J Y=K Z=I