Posted on 03/27/2022 6:08:04 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
YWGDG NDG YLP YWGPDRGK PM WRYYRMF YWG ZMOSZQGUNQQ. OMXPDYOMNYGQA, MGRYWGD PX YWGB LPDZK. - SWNDQRG QNO (FGPDFG UDGYY'K WRYYRMF SPNSW)
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 sign of spring, I hope.
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
TKKB EUQQFWY CXPP KNFQ BKKWY RZUR RZF VFYR FBODURXKQ DUQQKR. - DPUWFQDF RZKEUY
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
GOOD MANNERS WILL OPEN DOORS THAT THE BEST EDUCATION CANNOT. - CLARENCE THOMAS
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
That’s a strange surname for the author. I would have guessed East Asian but there weren’t many of them coaching the sport in question during the period in question.
Now the Dodgers had a pitcher about that time with a similar name except it was D instead of Q.
I love it!
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 Take me out to the ballgame…….. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
-PJ
Bob Uecker
“I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn’t have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up.” Source: San Francisco Examiner (March 29, 1984)
“People don’t know this but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it.” Source: The Tonight Show (with Johnny Carson)
“Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.” Source: Widely Attributed
“The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.” Source: Sports Illustrated (September 8, 1980)
“The highlight of my career? In ‘67 with St. Louis, I walked with the bases loaded to drive in the winning run in an intersquad game in spring training.” Source: Widely Attributed
“The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.” Source: Widely Attributed
“When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.” Source: Baseball Digest (June 1972)
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