Posted on 01/13/2024 4:20:16 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
HEH: R XHPVVF MPT'C BCPF
XRMLPXQN: SPSF, RC'B MNVQ NICBRQH
HEH: R'EH ANC CN AN PYPF
XRMLPXQN: SPSF, RC'B MNVQ NICBRQH
HEH: CLRB HEHTRTA LPB SHHT
XRMLPXQN: LNURTA CLPC FNI'Q QXNU RT
HEH: BN, EHXF TRMH
XRMLPXQN: R'VV LNVQ FNIX LPTQB, CLHF'XH KIBC VROH RMHSPSF RC'B MNVQ NICBRQH - WXNG THUCITH'B QPIALCHX
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.
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
B GAXT Z EZAG TKYVY PKY TBSO PKDCY ESXTH,$TKYVY XFSBJH ZAO PKY AXOOBAQ RBXSYP QVXTH,Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
IMBPY XRYV-LZAXJBYO TBPK SMHLBXMH TXXOEBAY,
TBPK HTYYP CMHG-VXHYH ZAO TBPK YQSZAPBAY:
PKYVY HSYYJH PBPZABZ HXCYPBCY XU PKY ABQKP,
SMSS'O BA PKYHY USXTYVH TBPK OZALYH ZAO OYSBQKP.- CBOHMCCYV, XEYVXA, ZLP 2 HLYAY 1
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight;[A] Midsummer [Night's Dream], Oberon, Act 2, Scene 1
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
I pretty much sight-read the first three words....
Brrr
As TIME reported in the June 27, 1949, issue: “Queasy NBC first banned the lyrics as too racy, then decided they contained nothing provably prurient, and put the tune on the air.”
So it’s starting to WXHHZH
and the very next line it’s up to your JTHHB?
The story reported by the indispensable Mark Steyn was that Frank Loesser (pronounced “lesser”) composed it for a house warming party in New York, where he and his wife performed it. It was a hit with the company, and he and his wife were invited to more parties than they could attend. The song was not initially released for commercial purposes, but after a few years (and maybe fewer party invitations) Loesser sold the copyright. His wife said she felt betrayed, worse than if he had had an affair with another woman.
A sidebar is that Frank’s brother who was an acerbic music critic for the New York Times, with a preference for classical music, was much disliked by people in the music industry, and referred to as the “Evil of two Loessers”.
I like the version with Red Skelton and Betty Garrett, with her singing the “male” part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFJ7ie_yGU
Thanks.
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