Puzzle 1
Starter clue: A = E
HEAWIPYAGHJQIGJAMHSEXMEFGMIHMETFWALAQGAAGXGHEAEXUE-QIFZHEFHYAFZGEXTHIAWUYFWZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 205
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: F = S
YXYO'FBWYZRBQWNAVQWFYFXYOPYJQWFUEXWYHUIRUBVFKQUFKWJRYFBVFEYQXHUWFZUYHFUEXAJC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: G = E
LWGHGJHMG'CFJAGZSNGSL,NVRGYJZLWGHGJHMG,NVRGXKLWGHGJHMG,VSRVSCTGZVXMGLJLWGHGJHMG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: I = E
QTBSKGIEQIMTN,BQIXWAGPEZNQVXJPKXWTCJEQIPZVCC,GVGIFTCKZI,YCVUOBAEQEVGXAPQIJHTCJ!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: M = I
RARQUEYOMBYOMEKLBBMSMGMXUCOXMGNRMBSLQO;RARQUXNMOZMEKLBBMSGRCOXMGFRBRRYBCHHRBB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: G = E
XOAFBDEFRAFBIPGTOSBVEFVVUGGEGKA,OFIGNGIANXYVFIAWLXEGQAFBRXTTLTPFPBOOGILQGOGLV.
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)
- “The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England.”— Samuel Johnson, 1791, Boswell, Life of Johnson, Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. II. Chap. V. 1763 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=X C=J D=Z E=H F=A G=S H=T I=O J=P K=Y L=V M=C N=Q O=K P=B Q=R R=U S=W T=M U=G V=F W=N X=I Y=L Z=D
- “A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=U B=H C=K D=B E=F F=S G=X H=D I=W J=C K=P L=J M=G N=Q O=N P=Y Q=R R=T S=Z T=V U=O V=I W=E X=M Y=A Z=L
- “The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.”— Daniel Webster, 1830, Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. P. 321 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=U C=S D=K E=Q F=G G=E H=P I=X J=O K=Y L=T M=L N=M O=C P=J Q=I R=D S=N T=W U=Z V=A W=H X=B Y=F Z=R
- “How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold the small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold!”— John Ferriar, 1798, Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania. Line 137 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=W C=L D=Z E=T F=V G=R H=G I=E J=D K=U L=Q M=J N=Y O=K P=S Q=H R=X S=P T=O U=C V=A W=F X=N Y=B Z=M
- “Every man is an impossibility until he is born; every thing impossible until we see a success.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=V B=S C=U D=J E=M F=W G=L H=C I=F J=K K=P L=O M=I N=H O=N P=X Q=R R=E S=B T=Q U=Y V=Z W=D X=T Y=A Z=G
- “If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.”— Sun Tzu, 1910, The Art of War (Lionel Giles translation, 1910)Cipher key: A=Y B=U C=Z D=K E=N F=O G=E H=Q I=R J=P K=M L=A M=J N=V O=F P=S Q=D R=W S=B T=L U=H V=T W=G X=I Y=C Z=X