Posted on 07/03/2020 2:05:05 AM PDT by nikos1121
XOUW VT PLMUD VT XOUW ALS GRRD QLLK UGWRM, UJK XOUW VT VPPLMUD VT XOUW ALS GRRD NUK UGWRM. —RMJRTW ORPVJQXUA
The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).
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YOU MUST LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES OF OTHERS. YOU CAN’T POSSIBLY LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE THEM ALL YOURSELF. —SAM LEVENSON
A challenge today. Clue in my tagline.
Started with the first and tenth words, and quickly got the name which made it easy.
Words 7 and 8.
Yep. That did it for me.
I’m embarrassed at how long it took me to recognize the name.
welcome back
Thank you! I’m always around, I just can’t concentrate sometimes, when life is in upheaval. But I’m getting close to settling in again, so... the fog is lifting. LOL!
Quite a challenge. I arranged it as:
xxxx XOUW VT xxPLMUD VT XOUW ALS GRRD QLLK UGWRM,
UJK XOUW VT VPPLMUD VT XOUW ALS GRRD NUK UGWRM.
—RMJRTW ORPVJQXUA
and realized that QLLK and NUK were probably opposites, and noticed that they ended in the same letter.
Seventh and eighth words by intuition, the rest followed.
haha
Yes #ten got me going, leading to the XOUWs and the finish. Fun puzzle today. Ironic quote by author considering his end. Happy and safe 4th to you nikos1121.
Late start today...
Well, that is one way to put it..
I believe it was Phyliss Diller who said
Everything I love is either illegal, immoral or fattening...
(Or she would have said it first had she thought of it first)
Same here first word then author then boom
Actually kind of quick. Most common letter begets author and from there the rest fell together.
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