Puzzle 1
Starter clue: M = E
IMAHEMLRKRUMLRPQMHWQLRVAPTCPTCGMMLQMAPTCGKPZM,OJGLPGIMNPAJMPWMTMXPAXMUPXEHTKRTNMXGPLHRT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 224
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
XNUWDCQUHHCSCGDBUECQDIQTEGHXVCXJUMEWUDMPUBJTXNUBUVMIPCSUHHUVXMIPWCKUDHCSSDUUZCAUDVEUVX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: G = E
HQRGUQEZCSZXTSWWCSKGPYGSZQOOQYZVUAZAGW,SUNAEZCGBSYGAUZGTTAPGUZRSBFGHGTTHQYZCTAWZGUAUPZQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: W = E
PEWGBI,LEGEKSWNWWVPEMGHJEPEWEAFGUMONAGYUGHMPNKVINPKPWNTWV,IOWKVIBWKSWVGLONIGTPGPEWOMNGVN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: W = E
JEJTEUWBZFDLGWFGVWDUFKSQWEUWLXZTWZATEFZJWT;SVVEUWOUJVYZWLYF,JTCWSVFXTVAEFGZWTWZNWEUWEWIE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: O = T
ODJAJHXIXOTLSLVAHTITOVILEEXOOJIBXAXEKAOJIK,XSMODJRSTLSLVAHTITOBTODEXOOJIBXAXEKAOJIKXPAL.
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 like to come to a height of land and see the landscape, just as we value a general remark in conversation.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=L B=Y C=D D=B E=K F=X G=S H=I I=W J=U K=C L=T M=E N=V O=J P=A Q=H R=O S=Q T=N U=M V=F W=G X=R Y=Z Z=P
- “The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=V B=D C=O D=R E=M F=X G=U H=S I=A J=B K=W L=K M=I N=H O=Z P=L Q=C R=Q S=F T=Y U=E V=N W=P X=T Y=J Z=G
- “Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to.”— Jane Austen, 1817, PersuasionCipher key: A=I B=Y C=H D=X E=F F=B G=E H=W I=Q J=K K=V L=Z M=J N=D O=P P=G Q=O R=M S=A T=L U=N V=U W=S X=C Y=R Z=T
- “The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of courts and statesmen, die and leave no wisdom to their sons.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=Y B=L C=Z D=B E=H F=P G=O H=U I=D J=G K=A L=W M=R N=S O=I P=T Q=J R=Q S=V T=M U=C V=N W=E X=K Y=F Z=X
- “It is the grown people who make the nursery stories; all the children do, is jealously to preserve the text.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=Y B=G C=J D=W E=T F=O G=P H=Z I=X J=I K=M L=N M=F N=V O=C P=B Q=K R=Q S=A T=S U=H V=L W=E X=U Y=D Z=R
- “The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery, and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=S B=W C=X D=H E=M F=G G=V H=P I=R J=E K=Y L=O M=D N=Q O=T P=L Q=Z R=U S=N T=I U=C V=F W=K X=A Y=B Z=J