Puzzle 1
Starter clue: N = T
VNVQQVBBXLSXLP,SLUNKZUZVQLIBXLIZNKVIAVINKZTLUBJTLUQZNKWIGZVIANWBHZJWGLPN,WIJNKWNVQILNGZVIANWBHZJWGLPN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 238
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: I = E
SIVIQZGIKWRMICJIWNIFVRAMIEGRQRZVYREERLSIMQCVIWRAIGRMJIKAUWNISBLKGRQYNCLYICLKWNINZVVBYCLIGRQKBGCGWIV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: J = O
OIAQUYTIJCAZULOHCOUPAYUYNTIJNJACYJOTUHOBJLCJKHAOVHYUYVOIHYM,IUCUZJTALTIHKICJKHAOVKUYYJOKIJJCAEGOBAAX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: U = T
UBRXRUBPDAXWHRDCUOCHUBRQRXU,DCHWXPUBPDVUBRLCFABUUCQR;QFUXUPTTUBRLWHRQRUURHUBWDUBWUMBPNBPXECMDHPABUQWE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: N = E
XNLVFAISNFVKNQFZQTQZBVYH;HWVKNMBSMCQFH;EBONTNKIMBSMCQFQFODNLQNYZJWNHODKWBJDNTNKIMWQFOWLMBSMCQFDQHOWKI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: A = E
NIMXYAMGQLTOAHQINACAQEMXLVYSIGVXIHVLXGIVLOGVXAQAMXLVYSLXQGIXGMNGMXFAAHHIQXXIAKXAVYIBQHIQAGDVPINNAQPA.
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)
- “It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=G B=L C=M D=V E=X F=Q G=B H=K I=N J=D K=H L=O M=P N=T O=J P=U Q=S R=Z S=F T=W U=R V=I W=A X=Y Y=C Z=E
- “We refused to leave the problems of our common welfare to be solved by the winds of chance and the hurricanes of disaster.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937, Second Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=B B=I C=A D=G E=M F=P G=S H=Q I=E J=V K=D L=N M=L N=H O=J P=X Q=F R=O S=W T=K U=Y V=R W=T X=Z Y=C Z=U
- “The man whose part is taken and who does not wait for society in anything, has a power which society cannot choose but feel.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=E B=F C=S D=X E=B F=Q G=U H=I I=H J=O K=C L=R M=G N=D O=T P=K Q=M R=V S=Z T=W U=A V=Y W=J X=L Y=N Z=P
- “These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad.”— Plautus, 194 BC, Trinummus, Act II. Sc. 2, 111. (392) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=H C=O D=N E=D F=U G=M H=R I=X J=Q K=Z L=Y M=W N=C O=F P=I Q=B R=E S=J T=L U=T V=K W=A X=S Y=P Z=V
- “We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=C B=U C=K D=H E=B F=N G=J H=S I=Y J=G K=R L=F M=P N=E O=T P=X Q=I R=Q S=M T=V U=Z V=A W=O X=W Y=L Z=D
- “Most desirable from every standpoint of national interest and patriotism is the effort to extend our foreign commerce.”— William McKinley, 1897, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=E B=U C=V D=G E=Y F=H G=I H=F I=O J=Q K=X L=A M=S N=M O=L P=C Q=R R=W S=P T=B U=K V=N W=Z X=T Y=D Z=J