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Printable Music 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.

Music puzzles

Puzzle 1 — John Lennon

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Puzzle 3 — Frank Zappa

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Puzzle 5 — Nina Simone

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Puzzle 6 — B.B. King

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Puzzle 8 — John Lennon

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Puzzle 9 — Nature Boy

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Puzzle 10 — Ludwig van Beethoven

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Puzzle 11 — Kurt Cobain

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Answer Key

  1. Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

    — John Lennon (Puzzle 1)

  2. The best revenge is massive success.

    — Frank Sinatra (Puzzle 2)

  3. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

    — Frank Zappa (Puzzle 3)

  4. Don't criticize what you can't understand.

    — Bob Dylan (Puzzle 4)

  5. Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

    — Nina Simone (Puzzle 5)

  6. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

    — B.B. King (Puzzle 6)

  7. Music is my religion.

    — Jimi Hendrix (Puzzle 7)

  8. Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

    — John Lennon (Puzzle 8)

  9. The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

    — Nature Boy (Puzzle 9)

  10. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

    — Ludwig van Beethoven (Puzzle 10)

  11. I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

    — Kurt Cobain (Puzzle 11)

  12. Music is the soundtrack of your life.

    — Dick Clark (Puzzle 12)

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