Posted on 06/07/2020 3:55:56 AM PDT by nikos1121
BP OEX GVWF FE NQQ GTVF RTBZKMQW RVW KE, OEX YXNF
NFEU HBCBWH FTQY FTBWHN.
- WEMYVW KEXHZVN
The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).
Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days. If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.
PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.
You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram.
I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.
You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter.
One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.
EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS WRITABLE ABOUT IF OUTGOING GUTS TO DO IT AND THE IMAGINATION TO IMPROVISE. SYLVIA PLATH
Comments 3 & 4 gave it away.
As Plato said, necessity is the mother of invention.
Took a little toying and a couple of ‘false starts’ (not all that many 3 letter words ending ‘double’) and it started to fall into place.
That said, change word #7 to (FILL IN THE BLANK) __________ and the meaning is compounded.
Author has MANY great quotes...
Sample:
Many a man who thinks he found a home discovers he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
or
IT takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
The first four words came to me straightaway. Just typing after that.
This was hard at 5 minutes to complete with many false starts. Yes, the seventh word was they key.
Like others, a few false starts and then figured out the first few words and filled in the rest
Took a successful guess at the second word, then the first offered itself, and then it was just filling in the rest.
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