Posted on 09/20/2020 1:09:50 AM PDT by nikos1121
LNJUR JDWNOF JQSUZP EUSP ESWL QDP DPCSQ WE LCT, CTF GSUTA QPCSJ ESWL QDP PKPJ WE XWLCT. —ONFXUA BCT GPPQDWBPT
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.
I FIND THE GREAT THING IN THIS WORLD IS NOT SO MUCH WHERE WE STAND AS IN WHAT DIRECTION WE ARE MOVING. O.W. HOLMES
Challenging CG this morning.
4 minutes good
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1 minute Hall of Fame Status
I found it easy, common letter, then last name of the author. And I totally agree with the quote!
Yes, that is how is solved it too.
Author came to me almost immediately due to middle name.
Ha Ha Ha Haaah
Word 6, most common letter.
Word after the comma, word 7.
Word 12 and 15.
Off to the races.
90 sec.
Shazaam!! Kowabunga!!!
Took a (correct) at obvious middle ‘name’ got wrong vowel on 1st stab BUT it allowed the other words to rise like ashes from the ruins of ‘Detroit or Seattle’.
QUESTION of the YEAR:
Which is worse.
Getting an Atom Bomb dropped on you
OR
Many years of LIBERAL leadership?
(hint..check out 1945-60-2020 Hiroshima or Nagasaki
AND
1945-60-2020 Detroit etal)
Many years later f these people
.
The name.... even though they got the middle part wrong. “O” not “A”!
It’s not really a middle name.
No, the middle letter in BCT is correct. His father was Flemish. Austrians used to say that the greatest achievement of the Austria in the 20th Century was convincing the world that Hitler was German and GPPQDWBPT was Austrian.
About a quarter of the names in the Amsterdam phone book start with BCT. It’s not even used for alphabetization. BCT GPPQDWBPT is the same as GPPQDWBPT when looking up a name. BTW, if you had taken a college music class prior to about 1980, you might have gotten the impression that the author’s name was “The Immortal GPPQDWBPT”, no BCT.
It’s not really a middle name.
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True BUT it is the ‘middle’ of name...
Like THE is not a ‘middle’ name but it is in the middle of many famous people
Alexander THE Great
Attille THE Hun
Jack THE Ripper
Vlad THE Impaler (A personal favorite <:)
and Many Many More.....<: <: <:
You are correct. My bad.
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