🔐 Six clues, one hidden word! Write the opposite of each clue, then read the circled first letters top to bottom. The answer key sits at the bottom — fold it backward along the dotted line before you start.
Write the opposite of each clue in the boxes (the box count is the answer length). The circled first letter of each answer, read down, spells the mystery word.
Write the opposite of each clue in the boxes. The circled first letter of every answer, read top to bottom, spells the mystery word.
Mystery Word
↑ fill these from the circled letters below
Not alive
Not poor
Not full
Not present
Not few
Not fast
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Solution
Answers: DEAD · RICH · EMPTY · ABSENT · MANY · SLOW Mystery word: DREAMS — the circled first letters (D-R-E-A-M-S). A=1…Z=26 check: 4-18-5-1-13-19.
How to Solve This Cryptogram
This cryptogram hides a 0-word message behind a simple letter-substitution cipher. Here's the fastest way in:
Hunt for single-letter words first. In English, a lone letter standing by itself is almost always 'A' or 'I' — that's often your first confirmed decode.
Look for the hint's pattern. This puzzle tells you: the type of cipher used. Use that rule on just one or two letters to unlock a starting foothold, then let repeated letters do the rest.
Track repeated letters across the message. Once you've decoded a letter once, fill it in everywhere else it appears in the message before moving on — it often completes a second word for free.
Short messages like this one usually crack fastest by anchoring on single-letter words and common short words like 'the' and 'and'. For more cipher-breaking approaches, see our guide to solving cryptograms.
About This Puzzle
Antonym Cryptogram works differently from our other cryptograms — there's no cipher to crack at all. Instead, six clues each ask for the opposite of a simple word (not alive, not poor, not full, among them), and the first letter of every answer, circled and read down the page, spells out a separate mystery word once you're done.