Puzzle 1
Starter clue: K = E
ZLIURTILZLGLZRTLSKHWZLLKJZTHETAIRGTAZTHHKTKJEWZLZKIRDTELGJEWJZHSLQSZUSOEBKGVLSKAKUWEJELZRTRDZTAKVKTAKTUK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 243
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: T = N
YEEUBPTHRYDZPXVEPLYUZCFPUBGTZYTGUBZD,YTCUBZOGTCPRBGEW;YTCUBZDZPRBYDCEWYTWUBPTHNTLGTTZLUZCFPUBYTWGUBZDUBPTH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: F = E
UAFIFRIFYDUXDIFUARYGJKFXSCJQRZYDUFC,PFUUAFQDXTJYRUJDYCDGUAFCFGJKFHJKFIJCFUDXDIFXFZDMJFCUARYQRYFKFITFAFRIM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: M = T
MOILNMHUSKZMZDICBMUBNRRUFMMOIGJABUSMOIGJCLZBKUIENJGAZMOMOILNMHUSMOIZFWUXIFCQICMMUICSUFKIMOIGJABAOZKOITZBM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: C = E
TCKRRXHYGXRBRHLVYGKCLYERPACAYBAAYBOCFLRECFGRZC,RBCJSCGVYVPRBLZRFCVIYBFCYKPWCAYBASFRLSCFPVQSCFUCGVKQLCGMFCA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: A = I
ACZPJNAUFJNIXDIBMASYGPYISGLIFWKALNBPXNWBPJX,KWVAHHSPDQADWZPJ.DKAXAXDKWNBASUANIHGACCWBWSUWQWDVWWSIGPYISGILIS.
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)
- “Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.”— Rufus Choate, 1856, Letter to the Maine Whig Committee, 1856 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=K C=J D=F E=A F=X G=U H=G I=S J=R K=E L=T M=Y N=V O=M P=Q Q=W R=O S=H T=N U=C V=P W=L X=Z Y=B Z=I
- “All things are implicated with one another, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything unconnected with any other thing.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=F B=H C=D D=R E=L F=W G=O H=G I=Q J=V K=J L=C M=X N=U O=B P=I Q=K R=S S=Z T=N U=T V=P W=Y X=M Y=A Z=E
- “There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.”— Sun Tzu, 1910, The Art of War (Lionel Giles translation, 1910)Cipher key: A=H B=Z C=S D=O E=P F=E G=F H=G I=R J=I K=V L=K M=D N=W O=J P=Y Q=C R=A S=U T=B U=T V=Q W=X X=M Y=N Z=L
- “The duty of citizens to support the laws of the land is coequal with the duty of their Government to enforce the laws which exist.”— Herbert Hoover, 1929, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=W B=S C=N D=Z E=Q F=R G=L H=Y I=E J=A K=C L=D M=T N=U O=H P=K Q=M R=P S=F T=X U=O V=J W=G X=V Y=B Z=I
- “We look back on obstacles avoided and dangers overcome, on expectations more than realized and prosperity perfectly secured.”— Martin Van Buren, 1837, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=D B=N C=E D=J E=V F=R G=C H=B I=H J=X K=L L=S M=U N=Q O=G P=I Q=Y R=O S=P T=W U=F V=T W=Z X=K Y=A Z=M
- “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”— Mark Twain, 1894, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead WilsonCipher key: A=I B=R C=F D=T E=Q F=K G=D H=L I=A J=U K=H L=M M=V N=P O=J P=O Q=B R=X S=N T=Z U=C V=W W=E X=S Y=G Z=Y