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 ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!
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.
Solution to our last puzzle. Simply scroll your cursor over the text while left clicking your mouse, and the words should appear.
FRIENDS WILL NOT ONLY LIVE IN HARMONY MERELY, AS SOME SAY, BUT IN MELODY. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU
About 2 min. Common letter, first word, third word leads to 4th word and its off to the races.
Common letter, sixth and third word, and then the rest.
Whoa. I noticed an unusual combination of letters in the last two words — the name part.
Texted the clan genius, got the answer in seconds. Somebody I never even heard of!
But yes, the second word would have made the whole thing a lot easier.
In 'Married With Children' Al was told that for every NEW thing one learned that in some people it just pushed out something old.
Kelly had a shot at a zillion dollars in a sports quiz and Al & Bud started feeding her new data and she was mowing the questions down and it made one wonder what would the catastrophe be that would keep Al a shoe clerk his whole life.
They are asking Kelly the gazillion dollar question:
"Who scored 4 TDs in one game for Polk High giving them the City Championship?"
Apparently they fed Kelly one bit of data too much as she drew a blank.
(FOR THOSE THAT 'DON'T KNOW')
Everyday of her life Al told the 4 TD story and it should have been imbedded deep in her brain.
Guess one had to be there.
Nikos1121.... must have 'dropped' me off 2 of the last 3 days...just stumbled upon it today.
Mistake or by design????
Neither does wisdom.
3 minutes; guessed the author