Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Y = T
YIFAYDCVCDYJAWYIDLDUTYDYOJYNFMMFAJUUICWJAUDNFYOYODUIAXYFYTYFIAFXYODVJCJZITAYWTYRIPYODDLDUTYFSD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 232
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: R = E
ERPVBLMUVTLUIAOMARSTDILXUSP,LUEAOGAERISRIDEIWBOYNOLRZLUIBGRYZ;LARSR,LAREAUDRIBTRGLUXLAOYMBGAIYMRB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: P = E
FZPJPEMQCPDGSHPCFMEDPCUPXZEUZMPJNPMFGQBBJGNPGJFGUGCAPKC,FZPJPEMQMEDPCUPGOAEMUJPFEGCQCAGOJPMBPUF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: E = T
EQMLMNLVMNGEQMSODEMIWEBEMWBHMCSWEVTBEEBJQMIENBLBJDGDJWTWEMKDOEQMDHDOEMHJNSHWMZDEQGNHMDFOOBEDNOW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: U = E
QLQWRHIHZAPLIHRLUSQWKANUPDKUPLRQHCD,LVRLAZRCROOVQKVTQHSWIWOVUPUOUSQSHALJHAOTUZAPULVRLOUOUPUTAIHS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: S = E
LMREXDYOXSTT,PSTJOXSTT!EJNUSNATYLISEY,PDJSISXBMGLCEYVGEWPEYZGSRTDXSOXLCYT,RYOUSEVUJSYTSRTSCEJUVXRNS.
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)
- “To interpret and to execute that will in accordance with the Constitution is the paramount duty of the Executive.”— James A. Garfield, 1881, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=N B=K C=R D=E E=Q F=I G=J H=B I=O J=A K=G L=X M=L N=W O=H P=F Q=Z R=Y S=V T=U U=C V=P W=D X=S Y=T Z=M
- “We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=H B=S C=X D=L E=W F=K G=C H=Q I=A J=Z K=B L=T M=G N=V O=I P=M Q=J R=E S=R T=P U=O V=U W=Y X=F Y=N Z=D
- “There is an eloquent silence which serves to approve or to condemn, there is a silence of discretion and of respect.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=D B=P C=N D=L E=I F=T G=O H=U I=X J=R K=M L=Z M=S N=V O=F P=E Q=A R=B S=Q T=J U=C V=K W=Y X=W Y=G Z=H
- “The people of the United States are justly attached to a pacific system in their intercourse with foreign nations.”— Andrew Jackson, 1835, Seventh Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=K B=A C=J D=I E=T F=G G=F H=R I=D J=C K=M L=P M=E N=O O=N P=Z Q=H R=V S=U T=Y U=B V=L W=S X=Q Y=X Z=W
- “It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=O B=X C=L D=Y E=J F=Z G=Q H=N I=U J=K K=C L=T M=G N=V O=W P=R Q=I R=A S=D T=B U=E V=H W=S X=P Y=M Z=F
- “O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And heightens ease with grace.”— James Thomson, 1748, The Castle of Indolence, Canto I. Stanza 26 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=Y C=W D=U E=I F=J G=L H=Q I=V J=T K=Z L=O M=F N=C O=D P=B Q=X R=A S=E T=S U=H V=G W=M X=R Y=N Z=P