Puzzle 1
Starter clue: F = E
OFZOSHEJHFJFYFXWVEA'JCXSHO,SRHFACNXAJOMJVSNHO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Wisdom Cryptograms Set 47
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: C = T
QCQMSGMAVEJUSOCECGIREOSCNQOPGOBCNQORGOECNSJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = T
CWTGLGFKDDISD,SBYMGDDIGQPEMYEKF;DIGEGW'MMXDWZR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: J = E
AYLALMGBAFVYOLQJHZGMJBWMVOWZCJYFWVJGEVXZNXJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: A = N
SASNQBFIGATSATSNQAAGAJIGATSXFCFXUTGDDGIGWSX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: C = E
EDLILVXNDZHZKXNXNCZDHOCVZNCAEDLJPCJIDAFXNCI.
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)
- “He who tastes every man's broth, often burns his mouth.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=N B=Z C=B D=C E=A F=E G=D H=T I=Q J=S K=L L=P M=I N=U O=H P=X Q=J R=F S=O T=G U=K V=M W=Y X=R Y=V Z=W
- “It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.”— Publilius Syrus, 42 BC, Sententiae (Maxims), 322 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=D C=T D=B E=O F=C G=A H=X I=L J=R K=J L=Q M=S N=H O=N P=G Q=I R=K S=E T=Z U=M V=F W=V X=U Y=W Z=P
- “Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I'll stick.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, Don Quixote, Part I, Book III. Chap. VII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=N C=G D=T E=R F=B G=E H=Z I=H J=P K=U L=M M=L N=Q O=Y P=O Q=W R=K S=A T=V U=J V=X W=I X=S Y=D Z=C
- “Who would wish to be valued must make himself scarce.”— German proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=W B=D C=K D=J E=F F=I G=L H=V I=Y J=E K=Q L=O M=U N=R O=T P=N Q=B R=P S=X T=Z U=G V=S W=M X=C Y=H Z=A
- “An acute mind and a cunning mind are very dissimilar.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=N B=T C=V D=S E=F F=E G=I H=W I=M J=G K=Z L=P M=B N=C O=Q P=H Q=U R=X S=A T=D U=Y V=O W=L X=R Y=K Z=J
- “You must howl with the wolves when you are among them.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=N B=P C=E D=O E=Y F=G G=J H=L I=M J=A K=I L=U M=F N=H O=V P=R Q=D R=C S=Q T=B U=Z V=S W=X X=T Y=K Z=W