You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. I challenge us with the best ones out there.
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.
There are a couple of minor mistakes in it but the message is clear.
The author wrote a children’s book on a similar topic.
Now if only Isaac Newton thought there were 6 instead of 7...
-PJ
KC QKX KC D’H NFENRXERU, “GWFH” DC K GFXU PWKP GKC DEMREPRU PF HKJR RMRXZFER CFAEU ODJR K LAPORX. —NKOMDE PXDOODE
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED, “WHOM” IS A WORD THAT WAS INVENTED TO MAKE EVERYONE SOUND LIKE A BUTLER. —CALVIN TRILLIN
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1:03.81 (on the original uncorrected version.) Nikos had a blonde moment, I suppose. The author of today’s quote once said, “I don’t mind dumb blonde jokes, ‘cause I ain’t dumb and I ain’t blonde.”