Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = E
BKAPUCBKNZWPVBJMPI,PEYPJZKQUPVOUI,OKISPZWOKMHRGBHLQRPAJOYPBKDRULHQULQRUYOBKA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 203
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: O = E
BFOZKJUFRWOXVBFOWOCEFXGUXLJTRATLCHBXBFOPUVPUZBVKLTB,KCJEPBFOUOJPCBFOPUGUPJO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = E
MICJRPCAMYUPDCAMHUJXUCKZRXYACKCNOJNCAFGGJNMYDRCMIYUJUCMIYMXYAUCXYUPFUMNZCP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: J = E
RCJZJDGEGRAVVYZHHJGGEVYARFJRCERHJBJZMEHVJEZRYVJNZDPCRJHJLERRCJSDIIYNYRCJZG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: I = E
SHMZJKPAT,THUINIX,UBJBKBGUTHUTBAINIXTIUXHAI,ZPZPAEIAAIXATBGBGDHATIXKBGOHLMZZH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Z = T
ZDONOUYBTZDUBHJTNOWONZKUBZDKBZDKZFTZDKNONUHDZ,OLWOMZMONDKMYZDKZFTZDKNORNTBH.
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)
- “In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=S B=I C=V D=J E=X F=M G=L H=F I=D J=C K=N L=Y M=K N=G O=A P=E Q=O R=U S=B T=Q U=R V=W W=H X=Z Y=P Z=T
- “The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung to their first fault, and withered in their pride.”— Robert Browning, 1835, Paracelsus, Part IV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=T C=N D=Z E=W F=H G=P H=G I=B J=D K=A L=U M=Q N=J O=E P=I Q=K R=Y S=V T=L U=R V=F W=M X=O Y=X Z=S
- “The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1588, Essays, Book III, Chap. IX. Of Vanity (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=X C=E D=B E=G F=U G=P H=K I=H J=O K=V L=Q M=T N=R O=M P=D Q=C R=L S=Y T=J U=N V=F W=Z X=W Y=A Z=I
- “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.”— Jane Austen, 1813, Pride and PrejudiceCipher key: A=U B=V C=H D=I E=A F=M G=S H=N I=L J=E K=Y L=D M=C N=F O=K P=G Q=X R=T S=W T=Q U=P V=B W=Z X=J Y=O Z=R
- “Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.”— Samuel Johnson, 1791, Boswell, Life of Johnson, Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. VII. Chap. III. 1778 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=A C=Q D=Y E=B F=K G=N H=O I=E J=S K=M L=U M=L N=V O=C P=I Q=F R=P S=G T=H U=W V=X W=J X=R Y=Z Z=D
- “There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=L B=N C=J D=H E=Z F=B G=D H=G I=F J=M K=A L=X M=P N=R O=E P=Q Q=V R=W S=Y T=O U=I V=K W=C X=U Y=S Z=T