Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Z = E
EMSCUKSZQJNZQZKPZU;KWCEXZSZHXZIGMUHKAMVWC,GVTXRSVJHMRUZWUZAZWZKHXJUSKSZQIRMVWC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 207
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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: Q = E
HGQVNFOE'UDFQCHYQJGCIQJNHANYYNJOLWQQJDFQCHUAGNOCFU,JNFZHUDFQCHUAGNOCFUDFQCHYQJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: U = E
GUEDUIZYVUEPZLHZSDOWEPDCOIYMUSOUPJHZSKZFFUDKUZDZSEICZYMUDTUEKUSLPEKMOUWUFUIY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: T = E
HSTVJTCHRNTJNYZHFLQTJCJTHSTLNTDBTNZYJXCJAFEVHSTLYBTLTEHZYJZYJTNHMJTNTJBCHFYE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: A = E
VHKPUA,IKIPRQDBIGVBHGFDZAMHG,DMJAEYUIPABUHECAHEAOGHBAJRUAKVGNSKIRUAEPILRUAUAEJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: I = E
PJIHZNPTVFIHWXSASGIMIQUIVPAGPZJAHJIOQP;JIGIMIQNIVPPJIEAPKJIQXZNPJIHZNPTVFIHWX!
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)
- “Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.”— Alexander Pope, 1711, An Essay on Criticism, Part II. Line 109 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=P C=D D=Z E=W F=Q G=M H=T I=Y J=I K=A L=X M=O N=K O=G P=V Q=L R=F S=R T=C U=S V=U W=N X=H Y=J Z=E
- “The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1858, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, VI (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=F C=A D=G E=D F=R G=H H=T I=V J=N K=P L=Y M=Q N=O O=L P=X Q=E R=K S=U T=J U=S V=W W=B X=Z Y=M Z=I
- “We are not jealous of rivalry in the fields of commerce or of any other peaceful achievement.”— Woodrow Wilson, 1914, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=X B=Q C=Y D=R E=A F=M G=W H=S I=N J=D K=C L=U M=H N=K O=I P=L Q=B R=Z S=F T=P U=E V=J W=V X=G Y=T Z=O
- “The great users of timber are themselves forwarding the movement for forest preservation.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1905, Fifth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=D B=V C=A D=L E=N F=I G=X H=T I=K J=R K=Q L=M M=P N=S O=Y P=C Q=B R=U S=H T=E U=J V=G W=Z X=W Y=O Z=F
- “I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”— Sir Walter Scott, 1825, The Betrothed, Chap. XXVIII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=C C=G D=U E=R F=J G=L H=A I=O J=D K=M L=F M=N N=K O=P P=S Q=B R=T S=Y T=X U=H V=I W=Q X=Z Y=W Z=V
- “The soft blue sky did never melt into his heart; he never felt the witchery of the soft blue sky!”— William Wordsworth, 1819, Peter Bell, Part I. Stanza 15 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=Q C=G D=Z E=W F=U G=N H=S I=E J=H K=C L=P M=V N=F O=A P=T Q=R R=X S=D T=B U=M V=L W=K X=Y Y=J Z=O