Posted on 07/04/2019 12:21:36 PM PDT by nikos1121
Today’s Cryptogram
W MZCX LWY YXZFAXJ CVRRXJC AZLCXER FT PX ITQXJYXK, YTJ WFFXLDFC FT ITQXJY TFAXJC. –EW PJVSXJX.
Today’s CG is courtesy of the Arkansas Gazette.
You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications.
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.
PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you might give the group on how you solve these puzzles as puzzle solvers love to hear how you made out.
You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram.
If you need a little help you can copy the cryptogram and paste it to Hal’s Helper below:
You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper.
Solution to our last puzzle:
GREAT INDIVIDUALS, NOT GREAT ORGANIZATIONAL MEN, MAKE COLLEGES OR UNIVERSITIES GREAT. HARROLD P. DODDS
About 10 min.
Just checked something.. What I had sent you BC may not apply to yours/ours, the only reason it may have come up was because the quote came up????
Be interesting to see what tomorrow brings though....
G
3:20. The Hal form wasn’t working well today (maybe it and my online stopwatch contend for compute cycles), and I had to look up the author.
One lucky guess at the beginning, then the rest was a cruise.
Guessing the 50% chance on the first word, along with the multiple two-letter 7th and 12th words, gave me the 11th word. Then it was all downhill from there, although I did need to look up the last name of the of the author. I had every letter except the fourth and it could have been anything ....
Happy Independence day!!
5 minutes. Guessed correctly first and third word then kept flipping letters to see what would stick.
Is the author some sort of cheese?
Fit to the day, obviously. Happy 4th everyone. Oh, 3-ish for this one.
Diddled around, diddled around, diddled around, eventually got it by fits and starts.
-PJ
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