Posted on 10/12/2021 8:18:55 AM PDT by nikos1121
APKKCLI HXDPXLP TLXG KOVK UXM LPPJ OPAS CH V KYMP HOXG XR HKYPLIKO. —QPEEV GXXJH
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.
HAL’S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
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.
Took less than a minute, except for the author’s first name.
From The Arkansas Gazette
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior
NKM OLP NV CMN RNLBNMG XR NV WFXN NLISXQC LQG AMCXQ GVXQC. -OLIN GXRQMP
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
THE WAY TO GET STARTED IS TO QUIT TALKING AND BEGIN DOING. -WALT DISNEY
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Yes, author’s first name was tough. Solved it by starting with 4th word, then last word of quote.
Letter frequency and the word KOVK followed by HXDPXLP
NOVEMBER
CHARLIE
Thank you for doing these for us.
I started with the one-letter word. With that, I tried each letter in KOVK until it hit (I probably should have memorized that pattern). After getting that word, the last word in the sentence became visible and the rest of the puzzle opened up from there.
-PJ
I had to settle for this beggar asking for a hand out...
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