💬 A famous quote, a hidden name! Use the A=1…Z=26 key to decode the author beneath the quote. The answer key sits at the bottom — fold it backward along the dotted line before you start.
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Solution
ALBERT EINSTEIN — Saturday Evening Post, 1929. Codes (A=1…Z=26): ALBERT 1-12-2-5-18-20 · EINSTEIN 5-9-14-19-20-5-9-14.
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
Guess the Author flips the usual cryptogram setup on its head — the quote itself is printed in full and never hidden (“Imagination is more important than knowledge”), and it's the fourteen-letter name underneath that's encoded, using a simple A=1 through Z=26 number key instead of a shifted alphabet. Recognizing the quote is often the fastest route in, since it narrows down who the numbers could possibly spell.