Posted on 08/02/2021 5:07:30 AM PDT by nikos1121
NI NL USI IPTLT QTOO-DTE OSUB-PMNCTE VTU IPMI N
DTMC, XHI IPT JMOT MUE IPT PHUBCZ-OSSWNUB.
- GHONHL FMTLMC
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.
Solve it in
4 minutes is good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
90 seconds amazing
About 1 min. Got first 2 words and the rest was filled in, line by line. An old quote that is still relevant today.
1 min.
1st 3 words.
10th word.
Word after the comma.
Word after that.
Off to the races.
Meh, common letters and single letter word.
Time for a big brealfast!
Everyone, all together:
THE DUCK FLIES AT MIDNIGHT
C OTJVW NOCN GCZ GTAZN NT NWZ RV C JWYCJICUMW OTJVW, ZTN C JWYCJICUMW YCNOWYCNRGRCZ. —VCYAWM PTOZVTZ
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
A HORSE THAT CAN COUNT TO TEN IS A REMARKABLE HORSE, NOT A REMARKABLE MATHEMATICIAN. —SAMUEL JOHNSON
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth, Junius Brutus Booth, appearing as Brutus, Cassius, Mark Antony on Nov. 25, 1864, at New York's WinterGarden Theater, the only time they ever appeared together, in a one night benefit performance to raise money for a statue of Christopher Columbus in New York's Central Park.
Correction: Statue of Shakespeare in Central Park, partially funded by the Booth Brothers' benefit performance.
-PJ
Went fast. Single letter word led to the first two and it was all downhill.
Today’s is a little tricky
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