Posted on 11/22/2021 3:24:45 AM PST by nikos1121
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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.
I’d rate this one as fairly difficult, AT LEAST FOR ME, unless you are astute enough to recognize the. author.
PLEASE IN FACT RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO SHOW A PICTURE OF THE AUTHOR OR GIVE A CLUE THAT REVEALS WHO IT IS.
From The Arkansas Gazette
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior
is that a clue to the puzzle or a description of the difficulty solving it?
Author. Finally.
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JMZLVM UM ZLRHLRH LR DQM FLAVMORMZZ-
TQ, FLAVMORMZZ FMOM SEOEVLZM MRTF!
-- DQM OGJELCED TX TUEO PQECEEU
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
The Rubiat of Omar Khayaam
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Well, I keep fiddling with long word endings with no luck. I also have one possibility for the first two words, but I don’t think it is correct.
The author liked his cigars and his whiskey.
Hmm.. chews on pencil. Orson Welles doesn’t fit.
Oh I got it now! Thanks.
I think I’ve read everything he ever wrote.
Took me about 4 min. Messed around with endings of longer words and was able to get author. Like you said, after the author, the rest of the puzzle is easy.
You have good taste.
hint #2 - there are two words, one of which is the opposite of the other
Hunt and pecked around, found the author then it went from there
having a husband that is an engineer.... this is spot on
Great clue
Both
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