Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Z = E
IUZWEYJIEJPZTINZTZJJ;IUZJZVDTGEJZVDTDCS;OTGIUZIUEYGEJJUYETQETPWYDCIOQETPKYZVZGZTVZDWDIUZYJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 227
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: Y = T
MNFWYTFKWNFYXFUCXBJFFYXWYJQPNPYSWAPJJYNBKMFNYXWKWKUTWYFNPWALBNEF;YXWYYXBSMXYJNSAFYXFCBNAZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: J = E
GRJIJOMETUEPMETQQFQSXQCMXOQAMCJMMQIZAMGTJURJCNJQNTJXQWJOCEUEPUROXRGRJPFCQUGQZJZJCJEGRGRJW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: C = O
EYETFCCKKETAIPYECG,GCYYCBLWPYCCBDAXCMLGSBLGLYYXPMEITY;ZPALDTPCGPALGGCYXCVKCDYYXLYRICRCIYECG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: H = E
AJJYROIBPIPHNBPIPBCWGQBTFURIIUHQCRLH,RTYKJTPHSVHTIGQROHWHOEHKIGQVTBTIHOHPIBTABTFURIIUHQROH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: V = E
DVEJPFVLWCLLUBNVVZ,NLSVOVZ,ZVAVAFVZKXCENGEENVAKPWLZEJXVPNGZUVPEELFVGZGZVENLPVSNKBNXVOVZBLAV.
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)
- “The first is gentleness; the second is economy; and the third is shrinking from taking precedence of others.”— Laozi, 1891, Tao Te Ching (James Legge translation, 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=J C=M D=O E=I F=Z G=D H=B I=T J=S K=P L=W M=V N=L O=A P=G Q=K R=X S=Y T=N U=H V=C W=F X=U Y=R Z=E
- “Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1867, Progress of Culture. Phi Beta Kappa Address, July 18, 1867 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=O C=W D=Z E=C F=E G=Q H=J I=V J=S K=N L=F M=G N=R O=K P=I Q=P R=B S=U T=M U=Y V=X W=A X=H Y=T Z=D
- “There is always a look of consciousness or bustle when people come in a way which they know to be beneath them.”— Jane Austen, 1815, EmmaCipher key: A=U B=V C=N D=J E=A F=K G=T H=Q I=R J=E K=Z L=G M=S N=P O=I P=Y Q=O R=H S=F T=L U=W V=D W=M X=C Y=X Z=B
- “It is good discretion, not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and MoralCipher key: A=C B=M C=O D=U E=I F=G G=N H=W I=R J=Q K=D L=A M=F N=V O=X P=E Q=Z R=P S=Y T=S U=J V=L W=K X=H Y=T Z=B
- “Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=G B=I C=M D=Z E=F F=W G=L H=E I=T J=O K=C L=K M=J N=X O=R P=S Q=Y R=A S=Q T=N U=H V=U W=P X=B Y=D Z=V
- “Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”— James Russell Lowell, 1887, Democracy and Other Addresses, Democracy and Addresses (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=C C=G D=L E=T F=B G=A H=Y I=P J=U K=I L=O M=J N=H O=V P=S Q=Z R=Q S=W T=X U=D V=E W=F X=N Y=K Z=R