Posted on 07/12/2021 6:58:29 AM PDT by nikos1121
AJQ AJQEAQG LEC SGQEAQV AX AQHH OQXOHQ AJQ AGWAJ ENXWA HKRQ EUV AJQ CXSKEH CKAWEAKXU. —CAQHHE EVHQG
You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. I challenge us with the best ones out there.
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.
Easy Peasy One
From the Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Solve it in
4 minutes is good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
90 seconds amazing
Done - about 3 minutes.
91 seconds; first word opened it up. Thanks nikos!
91 seconds; first word opened it up. Thanks nikos!
About a minute and a half.
Most common letters, first word, off to the races.
CXCVS BUVJPAZ PR U NIVH IN OCUJK, UR CXCVS VCMAPIA PR U JSBC IN KCUXCA. —JVSIA COEUVOR
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
EVERY PARTING IS A FORM OF DEATH, AS EVERY REUNION IS A TYPE OF HEAVEN. —TRYON EDWARDS
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Author and sibling, 1936.
-PJ
Common letter and the first two words and seventh word give an easy start.
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