Puzzle 1
Starter clue: D = E
VOQDZVEDKBJQDEUDNOEDVZPTQFDEQTTDVZJNOVPWNJQBEENUMNMJXDJMDQMXDQRDJDPVFJVZDAZNMCRQONZQR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 222
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 = O
LYLCFLQWDDHLGADAFIWLZIPDSQIGMPAFDXBFLGADMQLTTDT,MGCSTDQDAFITPADAMHIMGINMQRWISDTFLQPIWS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: A = I
HPXDAJNQEWKAYAFALSXAQJJPSWAXCGPWAUASJ,IEXHPSWPRPXQJFRSXXDPKQKN-KWQHAJVSJUXDPGQWJAJVCXSW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Z = O
CRVERHZCSHVMVEAREERMVFSZHCSFIDEZVPREESAIFYZQZGEZCHVHPZDMSAVFSZHYFZZFIREYFIVHZGEYRMKRY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: V = N
GVUKVBANQVMQVANBZXBGAQKVQRRCEEQZQBVAAKLBIKVRAXGABGYXKPQLBVZBAKGVNCIFDBGVLMXGABECDIQVL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: M = E
RMBWEJFBTFFBMHWYFRWQJMVLSETQJYIEMQJNJIVWWLWLPMQNSYNYTPVMTFIWMHIVWJSZMJNQTZNGNENUMJTPM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- D
- E
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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)
- “After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.”— Grover Cleveland, 1886, Message, March 1, 1886 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=I C=G D=E E=N F=W G=Z H=P I=Q J=S K=X L=K M=U N=O O=F P=L Q=T R=H S=V T=Y U=C V=A W=M X=D Y=J Z=R
- “I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.”— Terence, 160 BC, Adelphoe, Act III. Sc. 3, 61. (415) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=G C=D D=O E=Q F=H G=N H=K I=E J=Z K=Y L=I M=A N=X O=J P=S Q=M R=P S=F T=R U=C V=W W=L X=U Y=B Z=V
- “We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=I B=Q C=S D=H E=U F=L G=M H=W I=B J=N K=C L=Z M=F N=K O=P P=E Q=O R=Y S=A T=J U=D V=G W=R X=T Y=V Z=X
- “We are now in a larger relation with broader rights of our own and obligations to others than ourselves.”— William Howard Taft, 1912, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=G B=Y C=W D=B E=R F=T G=U H=N I=H J=C K=V L=X M=L N=M O=K P=D Q=F R=E S=I T=Q U=J V=A W=Z X=P Y=S Z=O
- “Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”— Epictetus, 108, Discourses (recorded by Arrian), Chap. XVI (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=E C=U D=L E=F F=B G=A H=X I=M J=W K=O L=D M=G N=H O=Q P=V Q=I R=S S=Z T=K U=Y V=N W=J X=R Y=P Z=C
- “We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.”— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1825, On Milton. 1825 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=H C=K D=B E=L F=T G=V H=M I=P J=D K=X L=F M=E N=I O=Q P=G Q=N R=W S=U T=A U=Z V=R W=O X=J Y=S Z=C