Posted on 11/13/2021 3:10:40 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
PQW RUKC UK PQW RUMWX SBCW B PBPPTW-PBTW XVEKC
BKC B RBGW JMVYW VGWM PQW MBUTUKO
BKC WGWMN SBK YKWR, BX PQW LBFPBUK CUC PVV
P'RBX PQW RUPLQ VH KVGWSJWM LVSW XPWBTUK'
- OVMCVK TUOQPHVVP
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.
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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.
A quote that I think you are all familiar with.
If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior
QOX HJZP TWKX MXDBHJ DVDNJTQ EDR NRXDT NT EXQQXK NRXDT. —DZUKXR MONQJXP VKNTMHZR
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
THE ONLY SURE WEAPON AGAINST BAD IDEAS IS BETTER IDEAS. —ALFRED WHITNEY GRISWOLD
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I don’t remember song.
Actually, I remember Harry Reasoner better than the song or the actual incident!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Waiting for Magnum44’s gif.
Driving to work one morning and a radio morning guy makes a horrible mistake.
The morning radio guy breaks news that author just died!
Author calls into radio show bout 45 minutes later and proclaims “hey, I’m not dead yet”
“The reports of my death are an exaggeration.”
Mark Twain, wiring his publisher in New York, from London. Twain was staying at a hotel in London, as was his cousin, also named Samuel Clemens. The other Sam Clemens, his cousin, took ill, and was visited by a doctor, and recovered. This lead to reports in the London papers of Mark Twain’s death, and word got to New York and America very quickly. Since the other Sam Clemens was fine, the stories, besides being a misidentification, were also an exaggeration.
I mean you could have posted this that would have been equally off in left field:
Never gives up its dead
Knew it as soon as I got the first half of the authors last name
Do you think the crew of the Fitzgerald would have liked a bigger boat?
A superior puzzle today.
I appreciate the feedback, let me know if they are too long, short, obvious, or even if they are lame. My first instinct was the first four lines of Verse 6, but thought it might be too long. Here is the whole verse:
QERP FMSDT SDQQX, XMKPSADS XATLX
AT UFP SDDBX DI FPS AWP-OEUPS BETXADT
DQG BAWFALET XUPEBX QARP E CDMTL BET'X GSPEBX
UFP AXQETGX ETG HECX ESP IDS XKDSUXBPT
ETG IESUFPS HPQDO QERP DTUESAD
UERPX AT OFEU QERP PSAP WET XPTG FPS
ETG UFP ASDT HDEUX LD EX UFP BESATPSX EQQ RTDO
OAUF UFP LEQPX DI TDYPBHPS SPBPBHPSPG
- Same Author
The [subject ship] was the largest one on that body of water at that time. It was her 769th voyage in trade.
Haha
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