Posted on 11/03/2020 2:01:07 AM PST by nikos1121
EBSSMF IC Q KSU PSQM QKW
QKCIBSM EBQKES RCM DF IC
LSI JI MJLBI.
—-CAMQB UJKRMSP
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.
Today’s the day.
I could probably write a program to solve these cryptograms almost in the time it takes to figure one out by hand.
I read somewhere that Thomas Jefferson developed a cypher method that could not be broken until WWII computers but the documentation lay in the National Archive, never used.
4:35.38 Putzed around until I saw QKCIBSM, and it came to me.
Wikipedia has a nice write up here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_disk
The Jefferson disk was the basis for the US “M-94” cipher machine, which was introduced in 1922 and used by the Army until 1942. The Germans broke it by 1944.
Strange statement from a person who has managed to ‘experience’ every and any malady that a guest may or may not have had.
Sort of like on ‘Family Feud’ if a person says he made a living by ?????? they cheer....
Would ‘love’ to get on the show and say something like “I am a serial killer etc’ and listen for the round of applause....<: <: <:
The queen of platitudes strikes again...
This one isn’t getting much right.
I had a Firebird like that one! No blower, LOL.
About 4 minutes.
Surprisingly, I got this in about a minute. The ones you guys say are easy, I tend to stumble on. this one went fast.
Not a fan of hers AT ALL
Did you stop printing the solutions?
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