What is a cryptogram?  Cryptograms are puzzles where the letters of the word or sentence have been substituted with other letters of the alphabet.  How you solve this is by figuring out what the letters really are.  We will give you a letter to start off with, and you take it from there!  Figuring out the vowels, one-letter words, and double letters is a good beginning to solve a cryptogram.  Also remember that the longer a cryptogram is, the more easily it can be solved.  A letter will not change the letter it represents within a given cryptogram, in other words if 'W' = 'A' then anyplace in the cryptogram that you see the letter 'W', replace it with an 'A'.  For example;

Kdooa!  Kat wci xae?

'A' = 'O'

In this example, 'A' = 'O', so the first thing we do is replace all of the 'A's with the letter O.

KdooO! KOt wci xOe?

How many three-letter words do you know that have an 'O' in the middle?  This cryptogram has two of them.  How many five letter words can you think of that have a double letter and end with the letter 'O'?  Let's try the word 'Jello' and see if it helps when we substitute out the rest of our letters.

JELLO!  JOt wci xOe?

Do we know any three-letter words that start with 'JO'?  Maybe Jello isn't right.  What else could we put in there?  How about:

HELLO!  HOt wci xOe?

I can think of a few three-letter words that start with "HO', how about you?  Think you can solve it?  There are a lot of three-letter words in these directions, in fact all of the three-letter words in the cryptogram are in here. 

If you give up, click here to see the answer.

Here are some more cryptograms to try. Click here to print them.  When you think you've figured them out, check yourself with the answer key.  Enjoy!