Posted on 01/23/2022 4:09:49 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
D QCYA VEKV D KU UYSVKR XB CKVISL, KCH LNELULSKR; XIV AELC D VSKGL KV UB NRLKWISL VEL ADCHDCMW VY KCH PSY YP VEL ELKZLCRB XYHDLW D CY RYCMLS VYIGE LKSVE ADVE UB PLLV: D WVKCH DC VEL NSLWLCGL YP JLIW EDUWLRP KCH VKQL UB PDRR YP KUXSYWDK. - NVYRLUB, KRUKMLWV
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.
An author you’ve heard, put probably are unfamilar with.
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
Get high!
DKPS SCTX'I SFBQR? RTN EN RTN, KPXCBKH IFFLI XP VCTKHF. EMX UQFXXN IPPK, FGFQNXCBKH'I RBZZFQFKX. -- EBWW STXXFQIPK
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
KNOW WHAT'S WEIRD? DAY BY DAY, NOTHING SEEMS TO CHANGE. BUT PRETTY SOON, EVERYTHING'S DIFFERENT. -- BILL WATTERSON
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
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-PJ
He thought he knew the universe, but he didn’t know God.
He came as close to knowing God as any man of his age. He was both brilliant and profoundly modest.
Or, as Jimmy Hendrix said, “excuse me while I kiss the sky” (which always sounds like “...this guy” for some reason).
Everyone likes to get drunk, look to the heavens, and zone out
I enjoyed solving this one.
Yes he messed up big time
Today’s author was an historically brilliant scientist and mathematician, and the Almagest the greatest scientific treatise of antiquity. Copernicus and Kepler acknowledged their debt to him. Without him, there would never have been a Copernicus, and without Copernicus, no Kepler. Newton’s laws of motion were simply a restatement of Hooks Laws, published 12 years earlier, lifted by Newton without acknowledgement. What Newton added was the invention of differential calculus, by means of which Kepler’s laws can be derived from Newton’s law of motion (which he appropriated from Hook).
But none of this without today’s author.
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