Puzzle 1
Starter clue: K = O
SOSUKQARCJHWIFAOKCSWECKCJUSOSQCSUBKETHOKXTHTATJUTGIHKWSOJUUKKQJUCTUCJAANCKKUT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 209
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 = A
KGXRNBVRIXFFHGGN,XAYJERASXFKGXRNBVRI,XAYFEVNXFJERAS,XAYSXJXFFEVN,XAYBAAEQGANXFSXJ!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: J = E
KFJRJTYHLKJEWJBJEPJKFJSGJUBJGHEKFHGJRFHDGJKFJSVUU,JBJEKFHDPFKFJQNJSHWJZHRJWLDU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: M = O
QAQYASCPMUUMBRMBHCLMJVEEUCB,SMRVUMBXYMUVBGUQEEQMBMJJVPCYASCLCYSMKEHWCBMBCVEQZC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: U = E
HOUCOQYJQMWZAZZJULMHOUFAYINBULINZYLLGNRTQHFAFHLHOUFUBYUHLIHOUTUBONMQBFLIHOUFGP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Q = E
XQTWOPQEPQBJPRRPAQKZRWBPKVQOPAQFMKDQOPTQMOWKQRIDQBQKROVPS,TRJQKMPVRB,MBJCMPVQBZQ.
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)
- “It is only harmful to him who has it in his power to be released from it as soon as he shall choose.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=L B=P C=H D=V E=W F=U G=D H=R I=F J=A K=O L=J M=G N=C O=T P=Q Q=N R=Y S=I T=E U=S V=Z W=M X=B Y=K Z=X
- “Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!”— Edward Young, 1745, Night Thoughts, Night III. Line 81 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=I C=R D=M E=O F=S G=E H=W I=L J=Y K=B L=K M=X N=T O=J P=Z Q=C R=U S=G T=P U=V V=F W=H X=A Y=D Z=Q
- “The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though they be more powerful.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=C B=V C=X D=U E=N F=H G=S H=O I=Q J=E K=T L=F M=J N=B O=D P=G Q=Y R=W S=M T=A U=L V=I W=R X=Z Y=K Z=P
- “It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.”— Sir Thomas Browne, 1643, Religio Medici, Part II. Sect. II (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=N C=E D=Z E=L F=X G=Y H=D I=P J=F K=U L=R M=O N=Q O=J P=C Q=I R=W S=H T=V U=M V=A W=B X=G Y=S Z=K
- “The whirling bubble on the surface of a brook admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=U B=C C=W D=X E=V F=S G=K H=T I=F J=L K=Q L=O M=N N=A O=H P=Y Q=I R=D S=P T=M U=E V=J W=G X=Z Y=R Z=B
- “We must extend to other countries the largest measure of generosity, moderation, and patience.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1928, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=H B=N C=P D=G E=X F=L G=K H=V I=F J=D K=R L=J M=A N=Q O=S P=T Q=E R=O S=Y T=M U=B V=I W=U X=W Y=Z Z=C