Posted on 04/07/2022 4:23:50 AM PDT by nikos1121
PZOH QL C PZZJ ACON LWZQOUJ—CVZVXSZDL.
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.
Today’s quote has been attributed to several people, but my research finds all of them unconvincing.
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PZOH is also a four-letter word that causes a lot of other ones.
Got the author right away, but the rest of it? Not so fast.
I thought that the prolific author almost gave away the rest. First it gave the 2-letter and the 1-letter word. It was that 5th word that was hardest for me to guess.
2 min.
Name, 2- and 1-letter words.
Get the last word, but got the last letter wrong.
(There’s only two choices; one of them fits...)
You win the thread.
You win the thread too.
-PJ
VTZFGT OPRFYQ TGTYSPBT FK EI YTATEGEBN F NYTFO NWTKO. —APBIWAEWK
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
BEHAVE TOWARD EVERYONE AS IF RECEIVING A GREAT GUEST. —CONFUCIUS
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Second and third words...
Author
Yeah. Had half the puzzle before I looked at that, though.
I always check the author first.
I scan from beginning to end. Sentence structure caught my attention, first. Subject, verb...two letter verb is a gimme...
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