Posted on 10/18/2021 2:53:51 AM PDT by nikos1121
OZG ADSGOGP FED LGHEKG, OZG KEPG FED YPG YLJG OE ZGYP. —PDKS
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.
From The Arkansas Gazette (may have been posted before)
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior
Shh
WXV GMCZW PVZZNS NG VANSNBMAZ MZ ZAYCAMWJ: WXVCV MZ SVOVC VSNKFX NG YSJWXMSF WN ZYWMZGJ YPP WXNZV HXN HYSW MW. WXV GMCZW PVZZNS NG TNPMWMAZ MZ WN IMZCVFYCI WXV GMCZW PVZZNS NG VANSNBMAZ. ― WXNBYZ ZNHVPP
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
THE FIRST LESSON OF ECONOMICS IS SCARCITY: THERE IS NEVER ENOUGH OF ANYTHING TO SATISFY ALL THOSE WHO WANT IT. THE FIRST LESSON OF POLITICS IS TO DISREGARD THE FIRST LESSON OF ECONOMICS. ― THOMAS SOWELL
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Fantastic book, awful movie
Shhhhhhhh
Really? Loved the movie
Profound, but I’ve never heard of this person.
The author, Edward Beach, a World War II submarine captain hated the film. He said the only thing it had in common with his (fantastic) book was the title and submarines. The plot in the movie was distorted to make it a vehicle of Clark Gable. The book has absolutely the best submarine narratives of any book I’ve read, I have read Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, Sea Wolf, and The Enemy Below.
-PJ
Usually I go right at the cryptogram & try to solve it without looking at all the clues everyone leaves.
This time I looked at the clues first and boy did they help. Got this one in under 40 seconds.
Would not have got the name if the letters were not in the phrase. Never heard of this person.
Thank you nikos1121 again for the morning distraction.
I’ll pick up today if you think it’s that good.
Was this based on a true story.
I love Clark Gable, and therefore the movie. Robert Wise directed it.
It’s not based on a “true story”, but on the experiences and war stories of Beach who served as XO on several subs before being given command of his own towards the end of the war. Without giving any spoilers, at the end of the novel the protagonist-skipper commits a war crime, to the horror of his crew. This is believed to be based on an actual incident that Beach did not participate in, but was widely known to submariners. At the time it was published Beach was President Eisenhower’s White House naval advisor. The tone of the novel is morally neutral about this incident. Stuff happens.
The history of war crime, and allusion to Beach’s novel can be found in The Bravest Man, https://www.amazon.com/Bravest-Man-Richard-Submarine-Adventures/dp/089141889X (Richard Kane is the subject war criminal.) The linked book is completely historical, and probably the most readable submarine history I have ever read, although it only concerns U.S. subs and only the Pacific.
1st word, next-to-last word, 3rd word, off to the races.
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