Posted on 02/08/2022 2:14:23 AM PST by nikos1121
U FUI LP KYY UMK KY WYSQNK KJUK LI KJLP XYSRB, JN OUIIYK JUZN NZNSAKJLIQ. U OJYLON LP URR KJUK LP RNWK. —JUSSA FUKJNXP
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
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The Road Not Taken
BY ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Not familiar with the author. Puzzle practically solves itself.
He was a lib commentator on cable for several years,
then got sacked for messing around with his peers.
Yes, I recall his fall,
I think his show was called Hard Ball.
Just read your poem. It is perfectly fitting, and one of my favorites.
Yes, I posted it with you in mind.
He’s a poet but you wouldn’t think it!
There was a boxer by that name, too.
You said you posted this one with me in mind……
I had just finished with my morning devotional, and guess what it was on? Mark 8:36 . How did you know?
That was Chris
DSW YEOF NKE PSY EWXWT NKIWM K NZMDKIW ZM DSW NKE PSY EWXWT QYWM KEFDSZEL. —DSWYQYTW TYYMWXWOD
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
THE ONLY MAN WHO NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE IS THE MAN WHO NEVER DOES ANYTHING. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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59.89 Whew. (I’ve taken up wordle recently that option is almost as addictive as this. So far I am 16 out of 17. )
-PJ
Wow I cant get this one at all for some reason. The other day I solved it in 2 minutes today nothing
1 min.
First two words by inspection, 10th word, off to the races.
Correction.
First two words by inspection, 3rd word by grammar, 10th word.
A quickie
Thanx
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