[duckman]

I’m lost. Do you have any ‘pointers’ for a newbe?

[nikos1121]

We had a shaky first day because my cryptogram had an error in it. You cannot have a letter representing the same letter.

Anyway, we got through it, and the best score was from BBQ Toad Ribs who said he did it under 1:30 which is amazing.

I will post the answer before 5pm. You can send me your answer and times in an email.

PLEASE DON’T POST ANY SPOILERS.

Here’s our current list. Let me know if you want on or off.

higgmeister;

glock rocks;

I_be_tc;

JudyinCanada;

Parley Baer;

pookie18;

ArtDodger;

kalee;

Maceman;

Swordmaker;

IronJack;

IYAS9YAS;

o-n-money;

MV=PY;

BBQToadRibs;

ArtDodger;

Tennessee Conservative;

texas booster;

MV=PY;

Two Kids’ Dad;

granite;

Paine in the Neck;

FrdmLvr;

[Maris Crane]

I hope I am not spoiling the game if I suggest that I think:

IWUI = that and
IWV = the

I love cryptograms and it is getting harder to find crypto books. Very often the books are quotes from famous people, but many of them are from left leaning and world dominating
people. I tried some time ago to contact a publisher with the idea of using quotes from conservative minds, but to no avail.

Sorry if I spoiled things for others, and I may be wrong with my suggestion.

Bottom line: I love cryptograms.

[Tucker39]

Ping please. A 5 letter word where the second and fourth letter are the same, is probably “never”.

[nikos1121]

I like to print out the daily cryptoquote or cryptogram on paper, and then work by hand.

You may prefer instead of copying out the cryptogram by hand to use Hal’s Cryptogram.

Here’e the link:

http://www.hjkeen.net/htoys/cryptogm.htm

Simply copy and paste my cryptogram in the box and click start, then it posts the puzzle on the next page and in fact gives you clues to figuring it out.

[ArtDodger]

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that airplanes take off against the wind not with it. Henry Ford

10 minutes

[TheCipher]

This is what is referred to as a “simple substitution cipher”. If you get tired of doing these because the are too easy, you can up it a level. What you do is take the cipher, remove punctuation, and divide it onto groups of 5 letters each. That makes it a little more difficult since you don’t have obvious word patterns. To

[super7man]

Bet it has something to do with Ovaltine.

[RoosterRedux]

when everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. henry ford

[RoosterRedux]

Is it cheating to use MSWord? I have never done this before, but it was a lot of fun.

Took me at least 10 minutes.

[Freestate316]

Did it in about 10 minutes without pencil and paper. I love cryptograms!

[Freestate316]

Definitely put me on the ping list. Thanks, and Merry Christmas!

[Political Junkie Too]

Working through the older puzzles. This one was easy, it only took a few minutes.

-PJ