Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = E
KNAGPMNAHVEZHJKWTGKGTEEPY,EAYKNPIGPPKNPMAYSAEKNPHYAMVNPBYKG,BVLKNHGWTGKDPATYJNBGKHGPWPVKAYYPJAWXPVGP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Work Cryptograms Set 14
5 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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: T = E
NDTTZDLKT,WFTWNZPTSDTLZTOZRBTOOXFSOJPXVPLSWUTDFQTFZVLFVWFNTDWFLHTWHBT,XOXFLBQWOZTUTDAVWCFZDACFHWHCBLD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = E
EXOTUDVPSXFAJODNDZQDNDORGZVGVJJDYZVZRDNXUCDVPGRZXVYXOGAAGNNZJDVRPZVZVJFPROHZOODPCDNRZQDXYVDMAZMDVND.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: T = A
AVIXMONIM,RAMOVGNTVBI,IUBIYGTNTSYTVAMTNONYI-STWI,TVANDIMXAMQGTXTJNDIKALJARNDIKAAQ,TVLTNDOMLOGTLTKTNTVOVLIU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: D = E
DRDQKYSVWUGSUPDHGTYSPDLWUIWED,DRDVWVWGUHDGSWIU,BTQGLKTEGLDMTVGDYCISGWTVTELWUYTUGDIDRSGDHSVHMQWGWMSILTZQ.
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 (5 solutions)
- “Those who inflict must suffer, for they see the work of their own hearts, and this must be our chastisement or recompense.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1824, Julian and Maddalo, Line 482 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=A C=Q D=B E=F F=X G=S H=I I=Y J=C K=T L=D M=W N=H O=V P=E Q=Z R=J S=K T=U U=G V=N W=M X=P Y=R Z=L
- “Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.”— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1824, On Mitford's History of Greece. 1824 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=L C=U D=R E=Z F=N G=J H=P I=Q J=W K=D L=A M=K N=F O=S P=H Q=M R=B S=G T=E U=V V=C W=O X=I Y=X Z=T
- “Workmen should receive certain and definite compensation for all accidents in industry irrespective of negligence.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1907, Seventh Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=L B=Z C=P D=E E=W F=U G=A H=Y I=J J=D K=X L=Q M=G N=C O=R P=S Q=V R=T S=H T=K U=M V=N W=B X=O Y=F Z=I
- “One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.”— Oliver Goldsmith, 1759, The Bee, No. 1, Oct. 6, 1759 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=C C=J D=H E=V F=Z G=S H=Q I=E J=Y K=B L=D M=R N=T O=I P=U Q=K R=F S=P T=A U=X V=N W=G X=W Y=L Z=M
- “Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=B B=W C=P D=E E=F F=G G=T H=D I=L J=Z K=Y L=H M=C N=X O=Q P=K Q=R R=V S=A T=O U=S V=N W=I X=J Y=M Z=U