Posted on 05/07/2021 6:27:34 AM PDT by nikos1121
FA YVA QMAQRM AF MZUYE ZUM ZRPBM, ZFS PY’X NAY YA TM YEZY VZW PF JOXPI AU PY PXF’Y JOXPI. —TPRRPM EARPSZW
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 Gazette
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< 1 min. PY PXF’Y opened it up for me.
Same here - started with PY PXF’Y and everything just flowed from that - though at first I had the wrong letter assigned to B and the quote made no sense at all !! It wasn’t hard to figure out the right letter.
Same here. Good puzzle to start the day. Also has some familiar pattern words like 3rd word ABCADB and 13th ABCA.
Yeah, quote made to sense at all till you figured out who said it, then you go back and realize what she was saying.... just sayin’.
oops!
4 minutes because, like a ding-dong, I saw the most common letter ending the 2nd word and made the wrong guess.
Than I saw the 1st and 4th words were 2-letter mirror images and played with *that*.
Sigh.
Contraction *does* help a lot, once you notice it.
OVK’S FROPM MJQX OJE YE SXM XJZNMTS EVR ZMJC YRS YE SXM TMMOT SXJS EVR CGJKS ZVYMZS GVRLT TSMNMKTVK
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
DON’T JUDGE EACH DAY BY THE HARVEST YOU REAP BUT BY THE SEEDS THAT YOU PLANT ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
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