Took me a couple of minutes, still drinking my morning coffee.
Posted on 03/05/2020 2:26:28 AM PST by nikos1121
Today’s CG is from The Arkansas Gazette. Don’t be scared. It’s an easy one. 3 minutes or less is excellent, but under 2 gets you the brass ring!
PZZOA NGY ZYWM QJHJGW VA FZ ZVQAJWHJA, GYC GA ZUFJY GA FLJM CZ VA FLSA AJQHSNJ DJ WGM FLJX GASCJ. —LJYQM CGHSC FLZQJGV
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.
LET US LOVE WINTER, FOR IT IS THE SPRING OF GENIUS. —PIETRO ARETINO.
grey_whiskers; JudyinCanada; 1_Rain_Drop; For awhile. Are you still doing your daily CG?
Hint: I pass the author’s birthplace everyday on my commute home. (I take a different way in.)
It’s not Ralph Waldo Emerson, same number of letters in the three names, but close.
Took me a couple of minutes, still drinking my morning coffee.
Me too. Lent reader?
Didn’t you post this same story the last time this author was here?
And btw, it might be a man, eg Edna Vincent Millay
Or Arthur Conan Doyle
Don’t you pass John Wilkes Booth’s grave every morning on the way to Waffle House?
That gave it to me immediately.
Bout ‘90 sec. Not sure quite how.
About 2 and 1/2 min. Got the most used letter, then a guess at the author and I was out of the woods.
No, that was Ralph Waldo Emerson. On my inbound commute I pass neither’s home. Homeward, I take a slightly different route, and pass first the birth place of this author, and then by the Old Manse, Emerson’s home, adjacent to the site of the rude bridge that arched the flood. The two were friends.
Arthur Conan Doyle is 6-5-5, today’s author is 5-5-7 as is Ralph Waldo Emerson.
One of my favorite authors!
lol!!
Just the other day on Jeopardy a lady was reminiscing about visiting the ‘pond’.
‘We’ can mention all the technology of today and the good and bad of it BUT nothing can really beat what even my generation grew up with....between some good tales and radio, we all learned how to IMAGINE things and ‘build’ our own pictures.
Even good barroom banter is ruined by the fact of it depends who asks ‘google’ the correctly worded question as most banter is usually resolved in seconds where in the past we could go on for days or at least until someone went to the ‘Funk and Wagnalls’ and looked it up.
As to banter, saw a ‘good’ one the other day
“There is nothing more boring than a discussion where EVERYONE agrees with each other” ... OR something along that line...
The only thing I can recall/remember line by line/word for word etc had to happen at least 40 years ago...wait a few years and I will tell you what I did ‘yesterday’....<: <: <:
Surprisingly difficult. Strange quote.
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