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Printable Literature Cryptogram Pack — 12 Puzzles

Each puzzle below is a letter-substitution cipher: crack it by hand in the numbered grid, using the blank code key underneath each puzzle to track your guesses. A separate Answer Key at the end has every solved quote, so this pack is self-contained on paper — no login or account needed.

Literature puzzles

Puzzle 1 — Jane Austen

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Answer Key

  1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

    — Jane Austen (Puzzle 1)

  2. To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.

    — Victor Hugo (Puzzle 2)

  3. There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

    — Charles Dickens (Puzzle 3)

  4. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    — Oscar Wilde (Puzzle 4)

  5. The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

    — Mark Twain (Puzzle 5)

  6. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

    — Oscar Wilde (Puzzle 6)

  7. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

    — Oscar Wilde (Puzzle 7)

  8. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

    — William Shakespeare (Puzzle 8)

  9. Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

    — Mark Twain (Puzzle 9)

  10. I have nothing to declare except my genius.

    — Oscar Wilde (Puzzle 10)

  11. When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

    — Mark Twain (Puzzle 11)

  12. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.

    — Mark Twain (Puzzle 12)