Posted on 10/28/2020 6:28:46 AM PDT by nikos1121
TQKU R TAERU LKJJP LQK LYNLQ PQK ZP XYKRLZUV LQK OAPPZHZJZLB MAY EAYK LYNLQ RYANUC QKY. ---RCYZKUUK YZXQ
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.
TO BE WITTY IS NOT ENOUGH. ONE MUST POSSESS SUFFICIENT WIT TO AVOID HAVING TOO MUCH OF IT. ---ANDRE MAUROIS
Today’s Cryptogram is from the Arkansas Gazette.
First three words kinda fell into place with a little inspection.
First three words jumped out at me, then the rest was easy. Whatever it means.
She isn’t lying...
Interesting....when one of the only 2 possibilities for word 2 was correct, it was basically letter for letter after that...
Should that first word be IF????
reminds me...
If a man is standing on the moon and says something and no woman is around, is he still wrong?
I took it as more like “deceit, thy name is woman.”
Very fast. Straightforward.
I probably got this the hard way, starting with the arrangement of letters for the first name, gave me a clue to the sex of the writer, with a limited array of possibilities.
I had not heard of the writer. Let me just say this writer is not likely to be quoted around FR with approval.
3:12.49
Letter frequency did it for me.
Another first-three-worder here. Surrounded by women as I am, it was too easy.
Easy...
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