Posted on 05/25/2024 4:11:37 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
JLCCBM XHDBMITTI - JLCCBM XHDBMITTI; DT CB DUTJB UXFB XEYXPJ KBBI DUB DYT CTJD KBXLDAHLE YTMSJ AI DUB BIREAJU EXIRLXRB. - UBIMP QXCBJ
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.## ping list message
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
1.HAQ EHID BZOLHXZVZC, HAQ EHID DWRLHXZV, HAQ EHID XQOHCHXZVZC, HDQ LZOIZR-WAQW COWRNHXZVSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):2.FEM OWED XF OZVM XQMR HVV, FEM OWED XF GWEB XQMR, FEM OWED XF LOWED XQMR HVV,
HEB WE XQM BHOCEMAA LWEB XQMR. - U.O.O.XFVCWME, VFXO, KFV 1 ND 267
1. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul2. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,
- J.R.R. TOLKIEN, LOTR, VOL 1 PG 267
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
You felt sorry for us after that thing yesterday, didn’t you..?
Word two. Finally.
Actually, I needed something appropriate to the occasion, but without stealing Apple’s thunder on Monday. And yesterday’s actually wasn’t that hard. Once you had the author, fill in the letters. I had to google the translation to find the original (two letters missing). I briefly toyed with:
Sumer is icumen in
Lhude sing cuccu
Groweþ sed
and bloweþ med
and springþ þe wde nu
Sing cuccu
But I am not quite sure how to encrypt eth and thorn.
Phonaesthetically, others prefer ‘cellar door’
Actually, I was thinking of that one too, and “Greasy Joan doth keel the pot,” but the troops were all bitching about my use of “doth” in a prior quote.
So I gave them some “black speech from Mordor.”
In Froggy’s defense, he did tell us to solve part 2 first, then do part 1 (which was a different code). Part 2 was a give-away when we saw the author’s name, (x.y.y.) and it was easy to think of J.R.R. (especially for me since Tolkien was my favorite author when I was in junior high school) So then knowing both parts were Tolkien’s quotes, we could guess some of the words.
Thanks Apple, for your defense. Parts 1 and 2 had the same code (cipher).
But I thought FReepers would FReak out over starting phrases like “Ash nazg” and “Krimpatul,” so I made part 2 straightforward.
Ya just can’t please everybody. My day is Friday and I remember the “Friday silliness thread,” and silliness pleases me, so I’ll just continue.
Folks who don’t like it can just skip my posts.
Thread winner.
I can think of two others that are more moving.
Maybe in a wet, moldy climate.
In the desert southwest, not so much.
Please..
I’m not complaining, simply observing.
This IS supposed to be difficult, isn’t it?
And a thank you for all you do.
Seriously!
A hugh and series thank-you!
(wink)
The best puzzles should be challenging, but not too challenging, and should be provocative or interesting. We have a wide spectrum of solvers. If I post Shakespeare, I get blow back about the language, but he did have some zingers! I think that you will find a variety of difficulty in my puzzles on weekends.
I try to do them with my cheerios before work during the weekdays. I cheat and use HAL. I used to do the ones in the newspaper without pen or pencil, but that’s taxing these days, though I can still do them. Once waiting in the doctor’s office I did it one of Nikos without pen or pencil, so I can if I have to, but using HAL is easier. Try doing them without pen or pencil if they are too easy.
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