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Cryptograms are code-breaking puzzles where each letter in the written work has been changed to another letter in the English alphabet. These simple substitutions for coded messages have been used for thousands of years throughout history.
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Tricks to Solving Cryptograms
Look for the only two words in the English language with one letter: “A” and “I”
Look for popular words in pop-culture quotes that show patters such as “people”, “always”, “little”, “which”, “never”
Look for highly used words that could repeat such as “the”, “you” and “and”. The word “the” could also appear in other words such as “other”, “their”, “there” and “they’re”.
Look for suffixes that could repeat such as “ing”, “tion”
Note that words after a comma usually start with “but” or “and”.
Words with apostrophes are usually “can’t”, “don’t”, “won’t”, “didn’t”, “haven’t” or may also speak to a possession such as “man’s”
The only 2-letter word in the English language to begin with “t” is “to”. So if you’ve uncoded the word “the”, you’ve may have also decoded the word “to”
The most used letters in the English language will be most prominent such as “e”
The word after “are” will most likely end in the letter “s”