Posted on 05/15/2022 3:51:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
PSS YFPY TC UCC AZ UCCR EU HKY P LZCPR TEYFEX P LZCPR - C. P. VAC
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.
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Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report. - Louisiana Senator John Kennedy
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Today’s clue: Solipsism
Quote he, nevermore.
There was a great poem about a certain bird. It became a terrible movie.
Yes, quote he who was deeply depressed, gloomy, and pessimistic!
< 1 min.
Note the two different 3-letter words at the beginning which are of the pattern ABB.
Getting them gives the author, which was hauntingly familiar.
I found an alternate solution to this one. It even rhymes and kind of makes sense.
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