Posted on 12/06/2021 6:27:22 AM PST by nikos1121
UKZG WV B MFD GKZ’U BEHBRS IZ PZZT LBS, BCS R’PP UKZG DZF B MFD DZF NBC LVBI VQVHD IRWV. —PZF LHZNT
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.
From The Arkansas Gazette
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior
A base-stealer, perhaps?
C MYW KWBALRDYWB FALIAMDHT PZN DPA LAFZLD ZI JT CHHWARR QZD YXZKD, C PYEA AEAW PAYLB ZW QZZB YKDPZLCDT DPYD C NYR BAYB. UYJAR LZRR MHAJAWR, Y MZKRCW ZI JCWA, NYR RALCZKRHT CHH DNZ ZL DPLAA NAAOR YQZ CW HZWBZW, XKD CR NAHH WZN. DPA LAFZLD ZI JT CHHWARR QLAN ZKD ZI PCR CHHWARR. DPA LAFZLD ZI JT BAYDP NYR YW AGYQQALYDCZW. - JYLO DNYCW
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
I can understand perfectly how the report of my illness got about, I have even heard on good authority that I was dead. James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration. - Mark Twain [In a letter to the New York Journal, published June 2, 1897]
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Fun quote, and good clues! (I have some baseball quotes, but I am saving them for April.)
The contraction at word 5 is usually a gimme. It was the contraction at word 11 that did it for me.
His words are true for how liberals have beat down society
Other way around for me because I did the contractions first.
Excellent!
-PJ
Sounds like the author was talking about the GOP.
Forgot to post my time: 2:37.13. I was tardy, I didn’t pick up the sign from the third base coach.
Well done!
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