Posted on 01/27/2021 6:46:23 AM PST by nikos1121
QKYS’B SKTB APBTGZBB LJ AZTGC Y QOTSZO? TS’B DPBS FPSSTGC LGZ QLOR YJSZO YGLSKZO. —TOMTGC SKYUAZOC
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.
From The Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
3 minutes good
90 seconds excellent
1 minute exceptiona
THINK OF ALL THE BEAUTY STILL LEFT AROUND YOU, AND BE HAPPY. —ANNE FRANK
1 min or so.
Contractions, 2nd word, 3rd word, off to the races.
The author was offered the opportunity to direct Gone with the Wind, but declined, telling Louis B. Mayer, "[n]o Civil War picture ever made a nickel".
Two minutes; the contractions
Isn’t there an Honorary Academy Award named after him?
Don’t ask me how but I often get the author’s name before anything else, and in less than half a minute. Did so here. A while back I got an author’s name immediately, though it was spelled incorrectly.
It may be something that runs in the family. Something useless but persistent in the genetic code. I have a relative who can read the whole thing on sight, as if it were not encrypted...and who of course is often barred from playing.
You are correct. I was not aware of that fact. He was a “boy wonder” who died in 1936 at the age of 37 of pneumonia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_G._Thalberg_Memorial_Award
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Very quick with the contractions. Had to look up the author to complete the name.
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