Puzzle 1
Starter clue: D = E
XYBLHBWNDQOLADDEHRWDXICLADWBKD,LAXLOWQEXNADKOLADHWDYRQBNCRXCDENLQKD,XICHBLRLRIARNHQYUDL!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 223
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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: D = E
VQJHM,WVJECFJIIPYDFJPPIDYVQD,JECFJIIPYDFJPPIDYVQD,JECFJIIPYDFJPPIDYVQD,JFHVBBPYDBJECBV'CDD!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = I
BHQBYRHDYRWE.BVBUUYNERSIBJNAHER;BVBUUYNERMAIWR;BVBUUYNEDREDRHEHWBYFURBYAP;HYGBVBUUZRPRHDG!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = E
YRGXQXGFJUXOJUXWRUWHBQHGBJOOUODMGUXIUVG,RGMQGWXQOIQXTJVOGBGCOGBXJIW.YRJOYQDIMKQDRJAG,QFJX?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: A = O
RZDANDAHSFIAJFAWSOQTSFISTSYSXPACUXJATAUDABRAQWPXNWWASCCSOFQXPXWFISRTWFTROFOADWFTQOFRAD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Q = E
EOXGVNOGVELZZEOQWQQDJQXSQYHQWBQOLRQQYZLXNQIGVXUXQQIGC,BQOLRQWEXQYNEOQYQIGVXSYIQJQYIQYHQ.
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 cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket!”— William Shakespeare, 1601, Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=U C=D D=E E=M F=J G=X H=P I=N J=B K=L L=T M=Z N=S O=F P=W Q=O R=I S=Y T=G U=K V=Q W=R X=A Y=C Z=V
- “O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!”— Charles Kingsley, 1858, Poems, The Sands of Dee (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=S C=D D=E E=N F=C G=B H=R I=L J=A K=U L=W M=Y N=I O=F P=T Q=M R=Z S=K T=Q U=P V=O W=G X=J Y=H Z=V
- “I am in earnest. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard!”— William Lloyd Garrison, 1831, Salutatory of the Liberator, Jan. 1, 1831 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=I C=Z D=R E=T F=G G=D H=A I=U J=V K=P L=Y M=X N=O O=K P=H Q=M R=E S=Q T=F U=L V=W W=S X=J Y=N Z=B
- “When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. What would you have, O man?”— Epictetus, 108, Discourses (recorded by Arrian), Chap. XXI (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=R C=X D=U E=Z F=M G=E H=P I=L J=A K=Y L=C M=D N=K O=T P=B Q=O R=H S=Q T=G U=I V=F W=S X=N Y=W Z=J
- “I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction.”— Ulysses S. Grant, 1869, From the Inaugural Address, March 4, 1869 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=X C=F D=N E=Z F=T G=Q H=M I=H J=D K=Y L=J M=V N=W O=C P=L Q=U R=I S=E T=R U=B V=G W=S X=A Y=P Z=K
- “Throughout all these experiences we have enlarged our freedom, we have strengthened our independence.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=J B=W C=M D=X E=T F=Q G=O H=C I=D J=P K=B L=A M=K N=G O=H P=Y Q=E R=V S=I T=Z U=F V=U W=S X=R Y=N Z=L