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These printable cryptogram puzzles and crypto families both use letter substitutions to encrypt some text. The cryptogram puzzles are short paragraphs with the letters replaced with other letters. The crypto families are lists of related words that are also encrypted with a letter subtitution.

The puzzles are created in theme sets of related topics. Each page of cryptogram puzzles has 3 puzzles per page, each related to a single theme. Each page of crypto-families puzzles has 4 per page, based on 4 topics of a common theme. Choose a theme and choose the puzzle type and enjoy the printable puzzles. For example, four topics of cryptograms related to the cat theme could be general characteristics, breeds, cats in fictions, and Garfield.

Printable Cryptograms

As mentioned above, a cryptogram puzzle is a short paragrah of text that is encrypted with lettersubstitutions. Each printable puzzle page has three separate puzzles with three different encryptions.So, each of the three cryptogram puzzles per page must be solved separately. Solution pages are also included.If this is for use in a classroom, the teacher may want to give a hint by supplying the solution for one of thewords in each puzzle.

Animal Cryptograms: Butterflies, cats, dinosaurs, dog, farm animals, fish, frogs, horses, monkeys, pandas, penguins, polar bears, and turkeys
Fairy Tale Cryptograms: Cinderella, Goldilocks, Hansel & Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Sleeping Beauty, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Three Little Pigs
Family Cryptograms:
Food Cryptograms: Chocolate bars Play Cryptograms Free Online

Holiday Cryptograms: Christmas, Easter, Halloween, New Year's Eve/Day, St. Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day.
Medieval & Mythical Cryptograms: Dragons, medieval, princesses
Movie Cryptograms:Seasonal Cryptograms: Summer Solstice, Eiffel Tower, Mosquitoes
Space Cryptograms: Aliens, Space (General)
Special Occasions and Observances Cryptograms: e.g. Pancake day, Palm Sunday, Love your pet day...
Sports Cryptograms: Baseball, Biathlon, Curling, Football, Hockey, Soccer, Ski Jumping, Winter Olympics.
TV Cryptograms: Cheers, Family Guy, Flintstones, Pokemon, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Powerpuff Girls, Scooby Doo, Spongebob Squarepants, Superheroes, The Simpsons, Thomas the Tank Engine, Theodore Tugboat, TV (General)
Vehicle Cryptograms: Airplanes, cars, trains, boats

Printable Crypto Families Puzzles

The crypto-families puzzles are lists of words or short phrases that are encrypted with lettersubstitutions. Each list of words is closely related to the title of the list.For each theme there are two printable puzzle pages. One page has 4 crypto-family puzzleswith no hints. The second page has three of the four puzzles from the first page and a list ofall the possible solutions for the 3 puzzles. This is for kids who may have difficulty solvingthese puzzles without hints. A solution page is also included for each theme set of puzzles.

Animal Cryptograms: Cats, dinosaurs, dog, frogs, monkeys, pandas, penguins, polar bears,
Community Cryptograms: General community themes, construction trucks, jobs, schools
Fairy Tale Cryptograms: Cinderella, General fairy tale themes, Hansel & Gretel, Little Mermaid, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Three Little Pigs
Family Cryptograms: Clothes, General family themes, home
Food Cryptograms: General food themes
Holiday Cryptograms: 4th of July, Easter, Father's Day, Halloween, Hanukkah, Mother's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day.
Medieval & Mythical Cryptograms: Dragons, knightd, medieval
Movie Cryptograms: Pixar's Cars, general movie themes, and romantic movies
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Music Cryptograms: General music themes, popular recording artists 2000-2009.
Space Cryptograms: General space themes
Scary Creatures Cryptograms: Witches
Seasons Cryptograms: Spring, summer, fall, and winter
Special Occasions Cryptograms: birthdays
Sports Cryptograms: Baseball, Basketball, Figure skating, Football, Hockey, Skiing, Soccer, Sports (General), Winter Olympics.
TV Cryptograms: Decades in cartoons, classic cartoons, Theodore Tugboat, Thomas the Tank Engine, TV (General themes)
Vehicle Cryptograms: Airplanes, boats, cars, trains

Hopefully you found some printable cryptogram puzzles or crypto families puzzles that your kids or class will enjoy. Print out as many of these puzzles as you like and enjoy the mental challenge.

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Challenge yourself, your students or your kids with one of our printable cryptogram puzzles. We have chosen themes, quotes, and vocabulary that make these puzzles excellent tools in the classroom or just for the fun of learning. If you think of a theme or subject you would like to see a cryptogram puzzle for, let us know and we should be able to put one up to please you.

What Are Cryptograms?

There are many ways you could write a secret code, and indeed some very complicated schemes for encrypting information are used all of the time. But we are here to have fun, so all of our cryptograms are simple substitution ciphers.

In a substitution cipher, each of the letters in the original message is systematically replaced by another letter. So for example, all of the A's in the original message might be replaced by M's in the encrypted message. Anywhere there is an M in the encrypted message, you would replace it with an A to return to the original message.

How to Solve Cryptograms

Here are a few tips that should help you get started if you are unfamiliar with this sort of puzzle. If you were to just start doing the puzzles, you would find yourself naturally discovering these and other strategies as your code cracking skills improved.

Pencil in a possibility. Fill in all examples of that letter in the puzzle, then see if you have created a dead end and need to go back. For example, say you have decided that the letter Z is an I, but then you discover that one of the encrypted words reads XZZ. You know that there is no word in the English language that ends with two I's, so you need to find a different substitute for the Z.
Consider letter frequency. Typically, the most common letters used in English are: E, T, A, O, I, and N. These will be the letters you are most likely to find in most cryptograms.
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