Business Cryptograms
Type your best guess for each letter. Hint letters are struck in brass; your guesses propagate to every matching code letter. Solve it all and your score appears.
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Business Cryptograms
Money, work, ambition, and advice from people who already got theirs.
The Czar has read a great deal of business advice and found most of it to be the same six sentences in different suits. Encrypted, however, they improve considerably. This file holds quotes on money, work, risk and management - from people who made it, people who lost it, and people who merely wrote about it.
Business quotes are a good middle difficulty. They are long enough for frequency counting to work, but the vocabulary is plain. Look for THE early - in a text of this length it will almost certainly appear, and it is the single most valuable three-letter word in the language: crack it and you own E, H and T.
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Questions for the Czar
What difficulty are the business cryptograms?
Middling, and a good place to graduate to once easy sets feel slow. The quotes are long enough that letter-frequency counting starts to pay off, but the vocabulary stays plain enough that you are never fighting the dictionary.
What is the single best opening move?
Find THE. In any quote of reasonable length it is nearly certain to appear, and it is the highest-value three-letter word in English - solving it hands you T, H and E in one stroke, which is roughly a fifth of all the letters in a typical sentence.