Posted on 04/09/2022 4:29:03 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
"IUX QPJX SIIZ ODOD CXZZ RPQ D ZPUX ELPAX LPVRQ ODFQ JN XDL. P QTLUXE DLITUE DUE FDB QRX CDZZ RPQ RPF [CXRPUE] FZPEPUV PUQI FXSIUE." - FDQSRXZ ODPVX
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.
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
SBIH NFR PIOXB ABI IHV FL NFRP PFMI, ADI O EHFA DH DA OHV BOHC FH. —LPOHETDH V. PFFWIYITA
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
WHEN YOU REACH THE END OF YOUR ROPE, TIE A KNOT IN IT AND HANG ON. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as FDQSRXZ ODPVX waiting for a billiard game in Harlem.
He had a screaming fastball.
Very nice quote and very appropriate for this week.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don’t care if I never get back.
Let me root, root, root for…….. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
4 min.
Get the 1-letter words then QRX and that gives the name.
Don’t look back, someone might be gaining on you.
(Not a clue)
I certainly couldn’t, but a certain Mr. Walker Smith Jr. would give him a run for his money....and then some. 😎
I consider myself very fortunate to have seen both these gentlemen perform. I saw them on the radio.
-PJ
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