Well, it is fantasy....
Posted on 10/02/2020 6:07:53 AM PDT by nikos1121
MVKCY MFV OCQRCUC RY CEJF VZFCN JNCEZC ENKRCP ZFEZ MRQQ MRY BRYHIVKP EYI MENP. —YRBRZE HRQQ
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.
FREEDOM FROM EFFORT IN THE PRESENT MERELY MEANS THAT THERE HAS BEEN EFFORT STORED UP IN THE PAST. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Word three. No comment on the content.
Word nine and off to the races.
Today’s Cryptogram Survey
I would greatly appreciate it, if you all can take a little time today or tomorrow and respond to my survey.
1. How long have you been doing the daily cryptogram?
2. How often do you do the daily cryptogram?
3. Do you usually solve on paper or Hal?
4. On average how long does it take you to solve the cryptogram?
5. What’s the fastest time you’ve had to date?
6. How important is Today’s Cryptogram to you?
7. Is there anything I can do to make it better?
Yea, I almost vetoed this one.
Word nine is the keystone
1. About two years
2. Every day
3. Hal
4. 3-5 minutes
5. 1.5 minutes
6. I look forward to it, and enjoy the thrill when it starts to make sense.
7. Not really...and thank you for the time and effort you take to post it.
1.) Since the beginning. 2.) Do it every day. 3.) Used to do paper. Been using Hal. 4&5.) I don’t time myself. Some take a while, usually because I get in a mental rut and have to reset. Others I pretty much read through. 6.) Important? It’s a pleasant, if occasionally frustrating, diversion every morning. 7.) No improvements come to mind. Thanks for doing them.
1. How long have you been doing the daily cryptogram? + one (??) year
2. How often do you do the daily cryptogram? Daily
3. Do you usually solve on paper or Hal? HAL
4. On average how long does it take you to solve the cryptogram? Varies, today was quick, sometimes I am stumped
5. What’s the fastest time you’ve had to date? Under minute. As fast as my PC allowed me to fill in the blanks.
6. How important is Today’s Cryptogram to you? I look forward to challenged offered by the puzzle
7. Is there anything I can do to make it better? Nope, not at this time! Thank you for your time posting the puzzles
1) How long? Mostly since they started.
2) How often? Most days.
3) How do I solve? ALWAYS HAL.
4) On average how long does it take? 2-3 min?
5) Fastest time is just about 1 min.
6) How important? Very. I really like them, keep it up! :-D
7) How can you make it better? Maybe a *PING* list so I don’t miss them?
Maybe 90 sec.
Last two letters of last name, most common letter, 3rd word,
off to the races (grammar helped after 3rd word).
You’re on the PING list. :-)
Why,you dog-faced pony soldier, so I am! Because you know, the, the thing.
Sounds rather Helen Reddy-esque to me.
1. How long have you been doing the daily cryptogram?
More than a year
2. How often do you do the daily cryptogram?
About once a day. It is something that I look forward to.
3. Do you usually solve on paper or Hal?
*Half the time on Hal (on my work computer)
*Half the time with my own Excel tool on my home computer, just for the cleaner formatting
*Never with paper
Occasionally “in my head”. In June I had bypass surgery and the only electronics I had was my phone. While waiting to get wheeled in I did it in my head to distract myself, and for the rest of the week. I am generally too lazy or busy to do it in my head.
4. On average how long does it take you to solve the cryptogram?
I refuse to time myself. When I did, my *median* time was under three minutes, but I enjoy them much more when I relax. Tough ones might take 20 minutes and that skews the average, hence I specified median.
5. What’s the fastest time you’ve had to date?
Occasionally about as fast as I can type. Some seem obvious by inspection.
6. How important is Today’s Cryptogram to you?
Brightens my day. There are a lot of cryptogram sites on the web, but I like the FR community.
7. Is there anything I can do to make it better?
I can’t think of anything. Ad lib on Sundays, maybe. I also enjoy when other Freepers pitch in with their own.
Didn’t she die recently?
Well, it is fantasy....
Been doing Cryptograms since your first post.
I do them almost every day. If I miss a day I’ll do two the next.
Sometimes use Hal, sometimes paper. I used paper always at first, then got lazy haha.
Not sure fastest time. Don’t usually time myself, but I’d guess I’ve done a couple under a minute.
I enjoy these very much but would understand if it got to be a chore for you.
Your posts are just fine the way they are.
1. Been doing these , I thought from the beginning, but at least a couple of years.
2. Probably try to solve it 4-5 times a week. Can’t really get to them on the weekends.
3. Use HAL
4. Average about 5-10 minutes on each problem, but actual overall time is probably an hour with all the interruptions I have to endure.
5. Under a minute of couple of times
6. One of the first things i look for whenever I am on FR.
7. Maybe do a double cryptogram on occasion so the clues some post will be difficult to discern if its for the first cryptogaram or the second.
1. 6 months
2. every day
3. Hal
4. 2-3 minutes- just depends
5. a minute
6. EXTREMELY
7. No- you rock it
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