Posted on 10/01/2020 5:21:41 AM PDT by nikos1121
WUQQVXB WUXB QWWXUE FC EOQ GUQIQCE BQUQKJ BQPCI EOPE EOQUQ OPI HQQC QWWXUE IEXUQV AG FC EOQ GPIE. —EOQXVXUQ UXXIQNQKE
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.
THE JEST LOSES ITS POINT WHEN HE WHO MAKES IT IS THE FIRST TO LAUGH. JOHANN FREIDRICH VON SCHILLER
Today’s Cryptogram is from The Arkansas Gazette
A click fest, starting with word one. Bully.
1 min.
Most common letter.
The 5th word.
The 9th word.
...the author.
Off to the races.
Thank you for posting these puzzles. I really enjoy them.
Curious, when you post the times for “good”, “excellent”, “superior”, are those gauges yours or the Gazette’s?
Some of my times are way out of whack; I get some of the “hard ones” in the “superior” range, yet some of the “easy ones” take me a bit longer.
Easy Peasy
Due to the fact I have developed mad problem solving skillz.
Thank you, Nikos1121, for all your time and effort posting these puzzles!
‘Tricky’ with all the double letters.....
Kind of like Social Security was meant to be (IF one lived long enough to collect it)....
“Give it to me NOW and I will return it to you later” Unka Sugah!!!
Good question. My routine is that I get up, and usually do the daily Cryptoquote in the Arkansas Gazette myself,
and based on my time I’ll post the day’s times.
It’s funny, somedays, I’m stumped and I’ll put the time out there as 10 minutes is good etc. and there’s always a few people who found the CG easy.
I would say generally speaking any time under 2 minutes is excellent, and 1 minute would be what everyone should strive for.
A man, a plan, a canal. Panama!
fast, common letter and it is clear.
That was his cousin wasn’t it? Unka Sugah I mean.
Bully!!
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