Posted on 09/30/2020 6:32:45 AM PDT by nikos1121
SUA OAXS HWXAX BSX EWBKS PUAK UA PUW CTVAX BS BX SUA JBDXS SW HTRNU. —OWUTKK JDBAMDBQU GWK XQUBHHAD
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.
MY MOTHER TOLD ME TO BE A LADY. AND FOR HER, THAT MEANT BE YOUR OWN PERSON, BE INDEPENDENT. —RUTH BADER GINSBURG
From The Arkansas Gazette.
5 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
EZ today. Author unknown to me.
Common letter, euro name, filled in the rest of the vowels
Good clue!
Immediately identified the author.
This one is a retread, I believe.
JOE BIDEN CANNOT DEBATE FOR A DAMN
Oh wait, that is not the solution. I must have used the wrong reverse encryption algorithm.
Got the (sort of) obvious ‘middle’ last name and rest fell like pins attacked by the lane sweep in a bowling alley.
Reminiscent of if I have to explain the ‘punch line’ to one, it probably wasn’t all that funny!!
Are you sure? I don’t remember it.
There is no there there.
huh?
HWXAX
A German joke is no laughing matter. - Mark Twain
How many times does someone laugh when you tell a joke?
If it’s an Englishman, thrice. Once when you tell it to him, once when you explain it to him, and once when he gets it.
It it’s German, twice. Once when you tell it to him, once when you explain it to him. He doesn’t get it.
If it’s an American, he doesn’t laugh. He’s heard it already.
Yep, thx.
Wow, never heard of that author
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