Posted on 02/20/2022 4:00:11 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
IZYFSFV [MZXADAUTX MTVDAFN] CTQ JZY TJO DIFJ TJNYFV MZMHXTV FJON, DIFQ TVF XAPFXQ AJ DIF UZHVNF ZL DACF TJO DIAJRN, DZ KFUZCF MZDFJD FJRAJFN, KQ YIAUI UHJJAJR, TCKADAZHN, TJO HJMVAJUAMXFO CFJ YAXX KF FJTKXFO DZ NHKSFVD DIF MZYFV ZL DIF MFZMXF TJO DZ HNHVM LZV DIFCNFXSFN DIF VFAJN ZL RZSFVJCFJD, OFNDVZQAJR TLDFVYTVON DIF SFVQ FJRAJFN YIAUI ITSF XALDFO DIFC DZ HJBHND OZCAJAZJ. - RFZVRF YTNIAJRDZJ
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.
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
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.
A familiar author, a little long, but especially topical.
If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior
CQBO SHVPHWFHO FELF AQQO LKHSZWLBR UHSH VZBH THQTPH LBO FELF KQRF QV FEHK RHHKHO FQ WQKH VSQK FHDLR. - ZLB VPHKZBA, WLRZBQ SQNLPH
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. - Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
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What this author so wisely said has sadly come true today and it will be the destruction of our nation if we can’t stop it.
Whew!
I know it’s a little long, but it’s Sunday, and this one is especially topical.
It was spot on. What I didn’t mention is that the author’s first name is an easily-recognized pattern.
As much as I love using Hal’s Helper, I may now be forced to do the CGs on paper. My iPad updated the iOS last night and Hal looks totally different and awful. It still has that aqua background, but now the little spaces where you type in the letters are now tiny bright pink ovals with a symbol in it that represents “up and down, scroll” that is almost the same color as the typed letters, and that color does not have enough contrast to the oval’s pink, so that it’s difficult to read the words.
I don’t know if the new IOS version is rendering his code differently or if maybe Hal changed it himself. ?????
HAL probably violates some magic IOS protocol or rule that didn’t make any difference before but gives the results you are seeing now. HAL will probably straighten it out in a few days. You are HAL’s beta site. There are probably other sites that do what HAL does, though I must admit I have become a fan of HAL on chrome/PC. I used to use a DIY Excel spreadsheet that I was accustomed to (and “coded” myself) but HAL has advantages, though I found it easier to see patterns in the Excel format.
Should I maybe email him and send him a screenshot?
Absolutely! That’s the job description of a beta tester!
There’s an email link here: https://www.hjkeen.net/hal01.htm
The same thing happened to me in December. No one else here seemed to have the problem. Not sure if it’s exclusive to IPad.
I emailed Hal and he changed the code so that the selected letters appeared much bolder, and it helps. Otherwise I had the same exact issue you now have. It was frustrating and no longer fun. Yes, awful.
I would have expected that the code change applied to all who access HCH, but obviously not.
As a nation, we cannot say we were not warned.
Sadly, we took no heed.
No change to HAL on my Amazon Fire tablet.
Got notification of some sort of update overnight on both my Samsung S10+ and my tablet but have no idea what it was or its effect.
That was more like half a clue.
Actually flowed fairly fast once started.
-PJ
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