Printable Very Hard Cryptogram Pack — 8 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.
Very Hard puzzles
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Puzzle 2 — Jonathan Swift
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Puzzle 3 — Duke Ellington
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Puzzle 4 — Booker T. Washington
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Solve online: cryptogramly.com/puzzles/booker-t-washington-301
Puzzle 5 — Jesse Owens
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Puzzle 6 — Mark Twain
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Puzzle 7 — Jordan Belfort
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Puzzle 8 — Dale Carnegie
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Answer Key
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)
When a great genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
— Jonathan Swift (Puzzle 2)
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.
— Duke Ellington (Puzzle 3)
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
— Booker T. Washington (Puzzle 4)
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
— Jesse Owens (Puzzle 5)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
— Mark Twain (Puzzle 6)
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
— Jordan Belfort (Puzzle 7)
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
— Dale Carnegie (Puzzle 8)