Posted on 09/17/2020 5:16:25 AM PDT by nikos1121
AKWH AKKMC ZKL OGLB LBH HUHC, XTL OGLB LBH EGZN, VZN LBHQHJKQH GC OGZFHN RTSGN SVGZLHN XAGZN. —CBVMHCSHVQH
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, you’ll be solving them all within a few days. If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.
PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.
You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!
I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.
You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter.
One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.
Solution to our last puzzle. Simply scroll your cursor over the text while left clicking your mouse, and the words should appear.
ONE MERIT OF POETRY FEW PERSONS WILL DENY: IT SAYS MORE, AND IN FEWER WORDS THAN PROSE. VOLTAIRE
Tricky little puzzle today.
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes pro
Common letter
Grammer
Author
Figure out the common three letter word, and all falls into place.
Author did it for me.
Made a good guess about HUHC and cruised. One of my fastest ever. HUHC is not the most obvious, but the most obvious word is a dead end that I did not take.
Seeing is believing.
OGLB LBH jumped out immediately.
‘Took a shot’ and hit the ‘obvious’ 3 letter word which opened everything up...
2 min?? close but I use HAL so don’t time myself...
The author would have been read a lot more in the last century if written in ‘English’.....<: <: <:
I used to more or less fly through the NY Times Sunday XWord puzzle BUT the London Times XWord nailed me often than not
I always use HAL, I would be broke buying erasers otherwise
Word fourteen was the last to go for some reason.
6th word is key; look at most common letter, but the word isn't what you think. If you get that, look at the author, hint hint.
In a somer seesun
when softe was the sunne,
I kylled a yung byrde
and I ate it upon a bunne.
About 5 minutes. A little slow today.
I always use HAL...
BUT
being a former cryptographer and having done these before by hand, I PERSONALLY consider HAL to be somewhat ‘cheating’ so I don’t time myself etc...
It is a great tool!!!
Why would you think its cheating? U put a letter in, it populates it for you. If you write it down same thing. This is faster and if you’re wrong then its erase, erase, erase....
Cheating is probably too harsh, what I am trying to say is that I can do it the conventional way but- in this case - as long as an ‘aide’ is available, I use it.
Hence I don’t think it is ‘fair’ FOR ME to time or claim times.
IT ISN’T EASY BEING ME....<: <: <:
Took longer to write it out than to solve this one. But being familiar with the author helps wildly. Less than one minute.
Lol oookkkkaaaaayyyy
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