I’m lost. Do you have any ‘pointers’ for a newbe?
Single letters probably an A or I
Three letters? Try “the” then look to see if that combo seems to fit elsewhere. “and”, “not” ,etc. (look for context clues - how sentences flow)
Four letters with first and last the same? maybe “that”
Check your FR email
These can be weird and intimidating at first.
The actual quotation is scrambled in as a code. You have to decipher the code. Each letter represents a letter of the scrambled quotation.
For example: The letter V in the Cryptogram is an E.
So put an E over all the Vs
The quotation is be a famous American inventor from Detroit. His name is at the end. If you get his name first, that will give you some more letters of the cryptogram.
PWVK VNVZMIWSKA GVVJG IX OV AXSKA UAUSKGI MXB, ZVJVJOVZ IWUI IWV USZTHUKV IUQVG XCC UAUSKGI IWV PSKY, KXI PSIW SI. WVKZM CXZY
Many quotes are “chicken soup for the soul” types. So look for words like, love, life, world, success, everything, etc. Look for endings of long words to be -ing, -tion, -ence, etc.
Here’s some more helpful hints when you have a cryptogram that you can’t even start.
FREQUENCY OF LETTERS USED IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
IF you’ve ever seen the TV Game Wheel of Fortune, it asks you to pick a letter. You’re best guess is to pick the most frequent letters used in our language.
Consanents it’s T Vowels it’s E
Here’s a little story about it.
Letter Frequencies. “etaoin shrdlu” (eh-tay-oh-in shird-loo), was believed to be the twelve most common letters in the English language. The word came from linotype typesetting machines. The first, left row of six keys on a linotype machine produce the word “etaoin”.