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.
A quote by someone that I think you are all familiar with, from a work you have heard of. Nikos is busy and asked me last minute to post. This is the one I prepared for next Saturday, it is not from the newspaper.
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
Perfect! The longer ones are easier. Less than a minute,
British spelling of one word is a clue. It may be confusing unless you have the rest of the letters filled out.
VB VG got me started.
I’m not sure if the first word was uttered by Montgomery Burns or a certain doctor.
My dear Watson....
This was a fun one. The challenge was getting the right 10-letter word to make everything else make sense, but you just knew that word had to be in there!