Puzzle 1
Starter clue: D = E
URJADRQRUMDEUCJVNRANUNEGDUEJOMDBXYEQDUEYYCQNDMQNRJBU,RQCXBNQJCQRQUDYHQCFDYDHQRJORUCMODM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 225
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
BMDIDCFLNAKPHVQDYDIVTVBITQX,LDKHFVDQDYDIVTVBITQXNJDQBIDQKMDRAQBMDMDHIBVTWBMDCDTCNDHVQTP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = T
DCDEODRDLFKSFECSEFWWSEPCZYCCZPBOPYCZPYRSTCZDJBE,AZYCPQPODCIP,WYUEYJUOPBYORCSZFGYJYTTYDOE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: K = E
LNHTRKFKRSAJZKSFVVPBLRK,LNHTRKFKRSAJZKELMM;LGVOMRTVJZKHFJZKSFVVPUMVN,JZKTVLBANZKKMNHBBJLMM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: L = E
AIFLEPAQWUGEIAZQVLUWOQIAQZYIULPUHLAOOCWAOCLULHPJWUULVLYFOQIAWAVVQZECWUHLIBOCLFPRJQEVLRO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: R = E
IWRLNRZXOLAQRBQMRWLYRRAOBEAIRZRPIBSRIWRZSZRLIPLASRZJLAPJEJILXARPJRYRZRIZXLMJHXIWJEOORJJ.
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)
- “Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.”— Epictetus, 108, Discourses (recorded by Arrian), Chap. XVII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=G C=O D=E E=A F=B G=P H=F I=Q J=N K=X L=J M=R N=H O=D P=Z Q=T R=I S=K T=M U=S V=W W=Y X=U Y=L Z=V
- “The Republic was never so strong, because never so strongly entrenched in the hearts of the people as now.”— William McKinley, 1900, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=I B=T C=P D=E E=X F=U G=M H=A I=R J=Y K=C L=B M=H N=L O=Z P=W Q=N R=D S=J T=O U=Q V=S W=F X=G Y=V Z=K
- “It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.”— Pliny the Elder, 77, Natural History (Naturalis Historia), Book II. Sect. 20 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=G C=T D=I E=S F=U G=M H=J I=B J=N K=L L=C M=Q N=X O=R P=E Q=V R=D S=O T=F U=Y V=K W=P X=Z Y=A Z=H
- “I wandered by the brookside, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.”— Richard Monckton Milnes, 1838, Poems of Many Years, The Brookside (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=S C=P D=G E=M F=R G=C H=A I=Z J=T K=E L=I M=L N=W O=U P=K Q=X R=D S=B T=N U=F V=O W=Q X=V Y=J Z=H
- “No pecuniary consideration is more urgent than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt.”— George Washington, 1793, Fifth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=N B=F C=H D=V E=C F=P G=Y H=G I=O J=L K=Z L=E M=Q N=K O=T P=U Q=I R=B S=J T=X U=R V=D W=A X=W Y=M Z=S
- “The American people have encountered together great dangers and sustained severe trials with success.”— James Monroe, 1817, First Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=N B=O C=J D=B E=U F=X G=K H=W I=T J=S K=Y L=A M=L N=M O=C P=D Q=P R=E S=G T=Q U=F V=Z W=H X=I Y=V Z=R