Posted on 12/24/2020 5:24:28 AM PST by nikos1121
EGWKIQCOI, QGOQ QKCY LT DYOW NGYH VYLVFY RYIEYHR KHQL QGY PAHSYW LT QGY TOCKFD. —PDWLH WLXYWI
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.
Clue for today’s puzzle. Simply scroll your cursor over the text while left clicking your mouse, and the letters should appear.
W=R
From The Arkansas Gazette
I SUPPOSE WE ALL HAVE OUR RECOLLECTIONS OF OUR EARLIER HOLIDAYS, ALL BRlSTLING WITH HORROR. ---FLANN O'BRIEN
Took about 3 min. Got hung up on eleventh word.
Merry Christmas nikos1121. Thank you for this thread every day. It really does help in exercising my brain.
Merry Christmas to all subscribers of this thread.
3:05.15 - PAHSYW hung me up. EGWKIQCOI was a gimme.
Got the first word and then just filled in the rest from there.
Merry Christmas, Nikos!
I absolutely could not figure out the word PAHSYW and had to google the quote. It’s an interesting way of putting it (especially this year.)
That gave me a bit of trouble too but I figured one of them had to be that rarely used vowel.
The first name of the author had to be the English poet since a key letter of the other possibility was already used.
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