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Printable Medium 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.

Medium puzzles

Puzzle 1 — Victor Hugo

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Puzzle 2 — Abraham Lincoln

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Puzzle 3 — Oscar Wilde

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Puzzle 4 — Mark Twain

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Puzzle 5 — Oscar Wilde

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Puzzle 6 — Groucho Marx

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Puzzle 7 — Judy Garland

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Puzzle 8 — Oscar Wilde

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Puzzle 9 — William Shakespeare

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Puzzle 10 — Steve Martin

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Puzzle 11 — Mark Twain

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Puzzle 12 — Jim Carrey

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Answer Key

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

    — Victor Hugo (Puzzle 1)

  2. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

    — Abraham Lincoln (Puzzle 2)

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

    — Oscar Wilde (Puzzle 3)

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

    — Mark Twain (Puzzle 4)

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

    — Oscar Wilde (Puzzle 5)

  6. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

    — Groucho Marx (Puzzle 6)

  7. I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

    — Judy Garland (Puzzle 7)

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

    — Oscar Wilde (Puzzle 8)

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

    — William Shakespeare (Puzzle 9)

  10. A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

    — Steve Martin (Puzzle 10)

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

    — Mark Twain (Puzzle 11)

  12. Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

    — Jim Carrey (Puzzle 12)

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