Puzzle 1
Starter clue: D = O
LOHWFXXFBIZLLQNVDXVGDPFGJQGDLOHCNDIZFNGDLXDCEDIGJJHGLZHUHGPODNHBDGNBFDINGHNNFNBOFHXZEUQWHIMDXLOHFCDPGPFNOHN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Work Cryptograms Set 16
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: S = T
CSSYFJERUPTJWJVRYWQRUPTATCJWQ,LUTFCWNSUNJSGJT,SUGPTSRUPSUSGJGJYTS;SGJUWJSUEDYWQJTRUPYWQSGJUSGJTSUNJSSGJWJLESURUP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = I
HPRBHPYYBBR,HPUVQTHPYKXCEQJ,HPZXZIVHPHPYHIZBUPFDBFQDHPCHPHZIDOHPYIBBIKDOPVIHBPZ,VCDOHLVUHQQUBOTBXIHIZBUPCHYKIJRDZIHPJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: E = O
XNWCEKARVEGELFGEFWAHJFWKYXAEJU,RYUXAJHYUAMWYJVULHHWUXAEJEGGEFRW,FWUXUUEKWKVEJXNWGELJMYXAEJEGCWYRW,HEEMBAKK,YJMHEEMBEFZU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: D = A
DKTASWDFSVDEFSBDRTAC,ELSHFSPOTCWJHCLDHOABPCTDSE,DSHWJLCLVDEFSWJLCLPFTSWJLJFPJLEWLUNLMWDWFTS.DOWLCDBB,FWRCTAPJWOTCWJDKTAEL.
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)
- “The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”— George Eliot, 1872, MiddlemarchCipher key: A=Z B=C C=R D=O E=Y F=I G=N H=E I=U J=G K=B L=T M=P N=S O=H P=W Q=A R=J S=Q T=X U=M V=K W=D X=F Y=V Z=L
- “It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=F B=Z C=I D=L E=S F=K G=H H=V I=C J=E K=B L=W M=P N=G O=Q P=U Q=D R=Y S=T T=R U=O V=M W=N X=J Y=A Z=X
- “In doing good, in walking humbly, in sustaining its own people in ministering to other nations, America will work out its own mighty destiny.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1927, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=Z B=O C=M D=E E=B F=P G=X H=I I=T J=Y K=H L=C M=F N=J O=R P=N Q=L R=D S=V T=K U=W V=A W=Q X=U Y=G Z=S
- “The policy of our foreign relations, casting aside any suggestion of force, rests solely on the foundation of peace, good will, and good works.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=I B=W C=P D=X E=O F=R G=F H=G I=V J=N K=L L=U M=D N=H O=Q P=Z Q=B R=C S=M T=J U=S V=Y W=E X=T Y=A Z=K
- “A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.”— Phaedrus, 25, Fables, Book IV. Fable 23, 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=L C=R D=A E=S F=I G=Z H=D I=Q J=H K=M L=E M=C N=P O=F P=G Q=V R=B S=N T=O U=X V=W W=T X=J Y=K Z=Y