Posted on 03/30/2020 1:45:10 AM PDT by nikos1121
Today’s CG is from The Arkansas Gazette.
ZQNPP KTMHHNIGNZXR, MTZ, LJGEBKG EMPGN, HBXXBL GEN IEMTFNP JT GEN IKQQNTG GMPGN. —YBXJNQN
The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).
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You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram.
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Solution to our last puzzle:
PEOPLE WILL NOT LOOK FORWARD TO POSTERITY WHO NEVER LOOK BACKWARD TO THEIR ANCESTORS. EDMUND BURKE
Pretty hard. Common letter, and then the 11th word, eventually opened it up.
I just flailed around until it looked like an actual sentence, then had to look it up to get the first letter of the author’s name, a name unfamiliar to me.
I was able to get this fairly easily. Correctly guessed the common three letter word, and then the last word. Then the first word. Then realized who the author was. Et voila.
Took about 3 min. Got the 3 letter words. Then had to play around on remaining words, and finally got it.
I just flailed around until it looked like an actual sentence, then had to look it up to get the first letter of the author’s name, a name unfamiliar to me.I saw Le Misanthrope on stage last year, so that was not a problem here :-)
Not bad, about 4 minutes. Quick frequency analysis, then let her roll.
2 min - 2 1/2 min.
Still not sure how I got it.
The author was on here a few days ago
Hmmmm
Again with the picking of a line out of a poem which makes absolutely no (well little) sense without the ‘lead in line’
Sounds like the reporters and editors(??) - or lack of today...<: <: <:
NOT a complaint (with present company) just an observation.
2 minutes. He’s back!
I just wish I understood it. I solve these things finding letter patterns and context. Today was context free.
I guessed the 9th and tenth letters, and that gave me enough to solve, although I guessed the ninth word incorrectly.
words, not letters. Can’t even blame autocorrect.
That was a little harder than it should have been! I blundered around for a bit before I recognized the name. Then I was good to go.
Same here. 3 letter words and third word and had to just guess around until it worked itself out.
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