Posted on 01/09/2022 4:20:27 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
RD'Y SVV ZNM ANE YII. AIYDIGCSA MNZ'D HI NBIG EZDRV DNXNGGNM SZC DNXNGGNM HIUSZ DIZ DFNEYSZC AISGY SUN ... DFRY RY RD: DFI SHYNVEDI ICUI NQ ZN GIDEGZ, DN DEGZ HSWT ZNM SZC XSTI FNXI NG YSRV RGGIBNWSHVA NZ SZC IRDFIG QRZC VSZC NG KVEZUI NBIG DFI MNGVC'Y GNSGRZU GRX. - MRVVRSX QSEVTZIG
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 familiar author
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
I never could understand anything he wrote.
AFD RBMAF XCRS SBAF YNBX,
KRS XD PFKNN FKZD PRBX,
KRS XFKA XCNN IBBM MBYCR SB AFDR, IBBM AFCRW?
FD'NN PCA CR K YKMR,
KRS UDDI FCJPDNG XKMJ,
KRS FCSD FCP FDKS LRSDM FCP XCRW, IBBM AFCRW.
16AF QDRALMV DRWNCPF RLMPDMV MFVJD
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
The North wind doth blow,
And we shall have snow,
And what will poor robin do then, poor thing?
He'll sit in a barn,
And keep himself warm,
And hide his head under his wing, poor thing.
16th Century English Nursery Rhyme
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Today’s puzzle is not a quote by a physicist, but Einstein said that time is a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Think Pickett’s Charge.
Thank you! That does help!
I read a lot as a young adult, and attempted to read several of hie books, but he was impossible for me to understand. I think I needed a few more IQ points.
The ambiguity and mystery of time was also a theme of Thomas Mann.
Ooops, I see Lonesome was way ahead of me. My oldest son was a Civil war reinactor and a high school English teacher, so this was very familiar to me.
Author’s first name is a familiar pattern. Or should be.
Many years ago, in a different life, I worked on an “Open” boat out of Sheepshead Bay, NY. When asked how far we had to go to find fish, my retort would sometimes be,
“So far that my finger tips hurt.”
“Why?”
“From hangin’ on to the edge of the world.”
Another answer was, “All the way to the Great Waterfall”
He must have been near the Arctic Pole of Inaccessibility.
85°48′N 176°9′W
As far from land as possible and didn’t know what day it was.
I don’t think I would have appreciated this author as a young man, but now, in autumn, I find him priceless, beautiful.
The Yankee batteries fell silent, one after another in response to the Confederate fusillade, but the ruse fooled no one, or at best only those who wished to believe. The Confederates batteries had expended all their ready ammunition, and would require an hour to restock. The Yankees were holding their fire to address the anticipated charge, and charge they would, and fire the Yankees would in response.
But what holds up the turtle?
-PJ
2 min.
1st word by inspection, 7th word contraction, off to the races.
Don’t be silly. It swims. 😂
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