Posted on 01/02/2022 4:35:37 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
QUZEXB JUBL JNGV: NL DUB LTV OVINEXB-RYXNBNGA YURTVJ, LTUL NG TVY YVLYURNGA BVUYRT UQLVY TVY ZNBBNGA RTNJOYVG, EGJS QEXGO UGELTVY EYWTUG. - TVYZUG ZVJINJJV, ZEHS ONRF
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.
Most don’t get as far as this quote when reading the referenced work
If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.
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"IBNM! IBNM!" FZMBNJBA HIB XND RMPJ N UBGCITPMGUC HMBB, SIBMB G INA IBNMA N HGHHBMGUC RPM FPJB HGJB, "SGUHBM INF N ZPUZBUHMNHBA NUA UWHHD QBMUBV, GR DPW QUPS SIBMB HP VPPQ RPM GH." - IBUMD ANKGA HIPMBNW
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
"'Hear! hear!' screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, 'winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.'" - Henry David Thoreau
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Good grief!
Waiting for someone to post the whale pic…… LOL
Any hints I could come up with would get yanked, pronto.
It’s a reference of Jeremiah 31:15 that’s in a famous book
Call me Ishmael.
Good one!
Never read that quote.....tried several times, but just couldn’t get that far.
Perfect! Did you bring the harpoon?
-PJ
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