Posted on 07/02/2021 3:34:20 AM PDT by nikos1121
VARX: VFEV TFAKF REG AN EJTEMN VDMAGY VQ LAJJ, WZV TFAKF XGON AG LAJJAGY FAR. —FXDWXDV NCXGKXD
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
Looks familiar?
Solve it in
4 minutes is good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
90 seconds amazing
KLTLX JLGX BUXL CYGK UKL CXUDJHL GC G CEBL. VUBL QLUQHL JLGX CYXLL NEKIV - GHH CYLW YGTL YGI, GHH CYLW YGTL KUZ, GKI GHH CYLW LRQLOC CU YGTL. - LIZGXI LTLXLCC YGHL
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
NEVER BEAR MORE THAN ONE TROUBLE AT A TIME. SOME PEOPLE BEAR THREE KINDS - ALL THEY HAVE HAD, ALL THEY HAVE NOW, AND ALL THEY EXPECT TO HAVE. - EDWARD EVERETT HALE
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Ooops! I think I posted a copyrighted photo?
And if you want to LAJJ VARX cryptograms is one way to do it.
Mrs. Peacock in the bedroom with the pistol.
Fair use?
About a minute and a half.
Word after the comma (letter frequency on 3rd letter says which of two common three-letter words it is).
Second word.
Sixth word.
Third word.
Off to the races.
True but well spent IMO
Pretty easy today, less than 2 minutes; I guessed the first word right away, gave me the second word, etc. Thanks nikos!
That’s a BB gun. Must have been someone else.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Fairly quick, do not recall it, had to look up the author.
-PJ
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