Puzzle 1
Starter clue: C = A
CDBPOY-RPMBGNPAHMOCJCOHSCHSCNQMAHNPJMHSGOYLORPOM,OPHCQDCENSMHSCHSCNRPOMNPJMHSGOY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 211
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: H = O
IZLFPYYGLDHKIHWZPDIHKPQMD(HWOZPVZIZLFHDINQKIQKL)DNHPGQGG;IZLCOPGGVZLOHAKFLQIWHKAD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: L = E
CWLIWZLQOICALNKMZZ,CNMKQLAL,DRKMHKOLYAMNKZL,CHVHIKELKOCAVLHLVMHKIKOLDIHLIPBCHOIIV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Q = E
NUNOMNUNKVECAQJFWFJHQFPOFJFWQKYPGYJTQJNQJGQWQPQES,CAYAFOQFPJQXJQNUAQPJFWQJYPKFWQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: O = E
HYOUCXGROZYTNTQKTUDKCZGTUCPO;MXHLDHYOZOTGUUCPONVZOTHXZOKLHYCXHLHDJZLBTHOCJLGLCGD?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = A
SZUVDFJYVWSZVZWEZVUBFUEDNNDIJCBEPRBWISUYJUBGUAIDSFBEU,BIYWSVWJJZBGUIDBIIWGUFABFC.
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)
- “A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, IX. 5 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=R C=A D=W E=Y F=Z G=I H=T I=P J=M K=X L=U M=E N=S O=N P=O Q=L R=D S=H T=Q U=C V=B W=K X=J Y=G Z=V
- “The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1580, Essays, Book II, Chap. X. Of Books (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=Z C=Y D=S E=G F=M G=L H=O I=T J=X K=R L=E M=N N=P O=W P=I Q=A R=B S=K T=V U=Q V=C W=F X=J Y=D Z=H
- “A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.”— Edmund Burke, 1775, Speech on Conciliation with America, Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. II. p. 117 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=M C=A D=B E=Y F=J G=Z H=N I=O J=Q K=T L=E M=I N=S O=H P=F Q=W R=U S=X T=V U=C V=D W=P X=K Y=G Z=L
- “It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=H B=J C=W D=X E=L F=A G=C H=B I=K J=N K=F L=Z M=P N=I O=S P=R Q=E R=Q S=Y T=V U=T V=U W=M X=D Y=O Z=G
- “The younger had always worn a yoke; but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?”— George Eliot, 1872, MiddlemarchCipher key: A=Q B=V C=O D=S E=J F=X G=N H=T I=M J=P K=W L=I M=B N=D O=E P=K Q=L R=G S=Z T=A U=Y V=C W=F X=U Y=H Z=R
- “The world with which we are commonly acquainted leaves no trace, and it will have no anniversary.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=S B=A C=Y D=O E=C F=R G=V H=Z I=N J=L K=J L=F M=B N=M O=X P=Q Q=G R=U S=T T=K U=E V=W W=I X=P Y=D Z=H