Puzzle 1
Starter clue: S = N
IZDLDACIZDCUWDPQLEKBQLUEEQBVC,USKRQQKUSKDNAE,CASUSKASSQYDSYD,RQIZLQVRZAIZUSKASZUSK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 213
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: U = E
DEUHUAHYUBYYCUUHDEUFMURULBXTUBMLTFMUZDUTDAEFK,BXTEUTUBYLSFDEDEUKBYYBLEFLZEFYTMUX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = A
ZNJYIQLNKIYZNDSJZT.NODIZBSIZMSNSBYGILIAPABJVBZITTUBUWAIYBYJOYSISBVABJVBZBYDILNJV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: M = E
JOFFDFFSUMEFDWWMWSUMZM,JBZHUXWUBGFCMYMZXNZMDSGZMCZOITRGSO?HUX,VDIBJVBZDFW,SMFFVMHUX?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: U = E
HZUKVUHKMPCHTVMJLVDKTHONPU,OJYHZUKUXUVDKHZUBDVPYZOXUZMJQMLDJHZUNUOHTJQCDKIWZUOVH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: K = E
RWKBGWFKOXFMORKLIKOGARWUIDLROKUUKUFTUEKKXWTFLRWKIFUREDLRELFXMLKRWKIUKNHKUWDRLKJ.
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)
- “There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand.”— Oscar Wilde, 1892, Lady Windermere's FanCipher key: A=I B=F C=S D=E E=L F=Z G=K H=J I=T J=X K=D L=R M=Q N=V O=P P=W Q=O R=G S=N T=Y U=A V=U W=M X=B Y=C Z=H
- “The people all keep their eyes and ears directed to him, and he deals with them all as his children.”— Laozi, 1891, Tao Te Ching (James Legge translation, 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=A C=K D=T E=H F=I G=Q H=P I=F J=Z K=M L=S M=R N=U O=X P=J Q=B R=Y S=W T=D U=E V=G W=V X=N Y=L Z=C
- “Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=L B=A C=Q D=T E=B F=J G=M H=X I=E J=I K=V L=R M=W N=O O=F P=Y Q=P R=Z S=H T=G U=C V=D W=K X=U Y=S Z=N
- “Fill all the glasses there, for why should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?”— Abraham Cowley, 1656, Poems, From Anacreon, II. Drinking (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=O C=D D=A E=G F=L G=U H=W I=N J=F K=Q L=X M=E N=C O=I P=J Q=Z R=B S=T T=K U=H V=M W=S X=Y Y=V Z=R
- “The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world have hung upon the beatings of my heart.”— William Wordsworth, 1798, Lyrical Ballads, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=W C=S D=O E=X F=C G=K H=T I=M J=N K=F L=P M=U N=B O=A P=L Q=G R=J S=Z T=I U=E V=R W=Y X=V Y=D Z=H
- “They who encounter men with smartnesses of speech for the most part procure themselves hatred.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=I B=Y C=Z D=A E=P F=O G=W H=V I=M J=D K=E L=R M=U N=L O=N P=Q Q=J R=T S=G T=F U=S V=X W=H X=C Y=B Z=K