Puzzle 1
Starter clue: U = A
UBXKUORPFMUMTDSTLXHTKUHHPUYTPOXHRTHMJUMDJTKUWJUCTUOUEETMPMTLXHDVSKPDDPXOULMTHBUHRD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 218
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: G = T
PEGMHGMHCYECNCBYACQHYOTHOGTWFCYSGSHZYBVH,PBGGMSZYSAMGSZOCGWOWYPSGYWYECYBOVSTSGHRCOH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: O = I
OQOAVJQSOQQPUQOAPJGNZCOEDFBADNSYUOV,SJXOPUEDVDEDXOVQDVQOJVUNNBCOEDVYUOVDEDVQJUVJQPDX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: U = E
XTNUARMDVMPURMTUZANVFUYA;EBVVZXUVVIUABYYHMYBUZAMWZSSZBOBFVIMHUFZOUEZQSVZQNHNQUNVJNVI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: E = T
EVNTMSYVXMYBZCVATEEYIAKINKXNTWMLVACE,NTZLQPNEMEQPPJPMYSKNBBPVJLVAEALMHJNEQYWMNTZNVEM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: A = E
ARAYWAQUDOHYFOHAGBDRAFTOFSAFBCAYAQU,NCDGCDOXZOFBASHFYXYW;XYFLQUXQUTDQXZOLGGAOOQFNCAYA.
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 woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”— George Eliot, 1872, MiddlemarchCipher key: A=Q B=W C=V D=S E=P F=C G=Z H=R I=J J=H K=M L=F M=T N=X O=N P=I Q=L R=D S=B T=E U=A V=U W=Y X=O Y=G Z=K
- “By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one.”— James K. Polk, 1845, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=G B=U C=O D=P E=Y F=J G=T H=E I=Z J=W K=X L=K M=H N=F O=N P=B Q=V R=D S=I T=M U=C V=L W=A X=Q Y=R Z=S
- “It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=S B=Y C=G D=E E=V F=M G=U H=Q I=B J=O K=X L=C M=W N=L O=I P=H Q=T R=J S=F T=Z U=A V=N W=K X=R Y=P Z=D
- “Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=F B=U C=Q D=N E=B F=S G=Z H=V I=H J=W K=P L=X M=A N=I O=M P=K Q=D R=C S=Y T=R U=E V=T W=J X=G Y=L Z=O
- “Transforms old print to zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes of gallery critics by a thousand arts.”— William Cowper, 1785, The Task, Book II. The Timepiece. Line 363 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=L C=P D=K E=T F=Q G=J H=B I=Z J=Y K=G L=C M=S N=A O=X P=E Q=H R=V S=F T=N U=W V=R W=U X=M Y=O Z=D
- “Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=E B=T C=H D=I E=J F=O G=C H=P I=B J=Z K=G L=U M=X N=W O=S P=K Q=N R=V S=M T=F U=D V=Q W=Y X=A Y=R Z=L