Puzzle 1
Starter clue: C = T
VJEWMZWRHDJKLJDCWZWYOHCTCBOCIWJDZWCPOHHTCBJGKOQOZISJJYDCJYCWCBJNRDMPWGCBJRZMWZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 210
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: D = E
ZHW'FRBKFLXFUGHOKXIIOVXHWV.LUDWFUDGBKDJHWDGHOPBGVFXIIDCXVFMOFGHOUBTDEDBVDZFHIXTD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Z = E
HLJPZNZPYZRWHZPWQXLPCZPQWCIPZZCLSIPLSZWAPLQABSZWHRNHBZIRPNHJMPJLNZLIULYZPWSZWH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: S = E
CXUEUSLZUVRSZVJPSKSVLZSAVXSPXUPLSZUPGJTS,YZECXURSZVJPSLVUUGJWXTULSLXUPLSYZEGJTS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Z = A
ZNZXDCFVGYDZP,QZNXFMHFXHOUXOYMCZMQCZBOXFKGZHO,QZNHFXHOUXOYCFJQNZPAQMNPDOGAAFUFXO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: I = E
NIEUIJBUMQIZBOMXEUMZBUIPBVIPSNQIVNIFBEHUBECEZBVFZIVMQEVNQIVNIOMESAVBYURQEZHIUO.
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 join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union.”— Rufus Choate, 1855, Letter to the Whig Convention, 1855 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=H C=T D=S E=J F=B G=F H=R I=D J=E K=L L=V M=I N=M O=A P=C Q=G R=U S=K T=Y U=Z V=W W=O X=Q Y=P Z=N
- “Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=Z B=A C=X D=E E=C F=T G=Y H=O I=L J=G K=R L=W M=B N=F O=U P=M Q=J R=P S=Q T=V U=H V=S W=N X=I Y=K Z=D
- “To preserve internal order and freedom from encroachment is the first purpose of government.”— Herbert Hoover, 1929, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=C B=H C=D D=Z E=Y F=Q G=B H=T I=F J=P K=W L=O M=U N=S O=X P=R Q=A R=I S=M T=J U=G V=K W=N X=L Y=V Z=E
- “Who does not venture gets neither horse nor mule, and who ventures too much loses horse and mule.”— French proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=I B=J C=W D=X E=D F=B G=M H=Y I=Q J=U K=G L=S M=F N=P O=K P=R Q=Z R=V S=E T=L U=O V=T W=C X=H Y=A Z=N
- “A man should say, I am not concerned that I have no place, I am concerned how I may fit myself for one.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=F B=V C=H D=S E=X F=O G=L H=C I=J J=W K=P L=B M=T N=M O=E P=Y Q=I R=Q S=K T=Z U=R V=U W=G X=N Y=D Z=A
- “We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=I B=O C=D D=V E=A F=G G=K H=B I=E J=F K=X L=Z M=T N=W O=S P=L Q=H R=C S=Y T=J U=R V=N W=Q X=P Y=U Z=M