Puzzle 1
Starter clue: C = E
FCEIYYNRGCXNQCNHGGCAWCEROQCACERONYADGNXCIEJNRJCGYNGVHOZBIYOXWIAAIVZCFIZZVCRFCCYRJCX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 219
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: S = E
IMSXNHHNYESJRUBSEUOHGCPOVYSOO;XMUBVIG,HSBXG,RNBCSUBUYXS,UYKCSYSANJSYXS,ESBS,UJJ,HGCPOVYSOO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: S = E
PXWIPUTSQONQRUTEP,PUWVRTPQONGSF:NXSTSQSVUFE-TUNPUFECUNST-TUNP,CUNST-NXWSZSPUFEVUFE-NXWSZSP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: O = E
GCZKOGOJOTZSOBKGBWTAFYFFLOSBAOBUJAFCOKL,GOBSOORMBKKWJOAOSNZUOJAFVOZUJOLOUJOUABUJDSOO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: G = E
KAGIDKGUQDBYUJEUGLLDZVCGBNDUGJNKAGLKDKGLVGYGZVJZKAGYUJKGRKQJZDNNJUVGVKJKAGQURQKQWGZL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Z = E
AWPZNAYZRPZXSZMZQSZMEHJZADMZX,NGRGWQSJGDJRJRANC;HEQXJQSPCLJGDZMIWJGQZRQWQSZUJIAWLOEUJN.
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 can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1861, First Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=S B=D C=E D=F E=C F=W G=R H=U I=A J=H K=G L=Y M=K N=O O=I P=X Q=V R=T S=Q T=J U=Z V=B W=P X=M Y=N Z=L
- “The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.”— Charles Dickens, 1843, A Christmas CarolCipher key: A=V B=R C=B D=K E=W F=Z G=Y H=M I=T J=L K=D L=G M=H N=O O=S P=U Q=J R=F S=E T=P U=A V=I W=X X=C Y=N Z=Q
- “Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, The Merchant of Venice, Act I. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=K C=W D=G E=D F=N G=M H=Y I=P J=X K=Q L=Z M=J N=T O=U P=S Q=B R=O S=E T=R U=A V=L W=I X=H Y=F Z=V
- “While we desire always to cooperate and to help, we are equally determined to be independent and free.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1924, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=T B=A C=H D=F E=X F=O G=W H=Z I=J J=D K=L L=P M=U N=M O=E P=V Q=G R=Q S=R T=S U=N V=B W=Y X=K Y=C Z=I
- “The material progress and welfare of the States depend on the protection afforded to their citizens.”— Rutherford B. Hayes, 1878, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=H B=L C=W D=A E=G F=K G=E H=J I=M J=O K=T L=S M=V N=F O=X P=Y Q=I R=C S=B T=Q U=R V=D W=Z X=U Y=P Z=N
- “Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to the lips of Julia.”— Robert Herrick, 1648, Hesperides, The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=V C=Y D=G E=U F=C G=N H=B I=P J=I K=X L=F M=R N=A O=J P=M Q=T R=D S=H T=Q U=L V=Z W=O X=W Y=K Z=E