Posted on 05/19/2022 11:48:23 PM PDT by nikos1121
RU OSMU JB HUKQUMU QG ZIUU RQKK. RU OSMU GB XOBQXU. —QWSSX HSWOUMQW WQGDUI
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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Master, why are you punishing me? I was predestined to disobey you.
And I was predestined to punish you.
XOBQXU
In caps, this unencrypted word can be read plainly if you hold it upside down and look at it through a mirror.
Something to do with the lines of symmetry of its upper case letters ;)
Why I zeroed in on this word in the quote, that’s the puzzling thing...
SXTNOHJ PXGJU NX WKGJ UPKBBJTU NX NCXUJ AKNC AXXEJH PJWU, ZHE WPXGJU NX NCXUJ AKNC HX CZHEU. —NCJXBCKPJ WZONKJT
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
FORTUNE LOVES TO GIVE SLIPPERS TO THOSE WITH WOODEN LEGS, AND GLOVES TO THOSE WITH NO HANDS. —THEOPHILE GAUTIER
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Could we call this one a mysterious paradox?
I see no other option.
Why is Hal’s Cryptogram Helper so messed up on my iPhone?
I don’t know. That’s a challenge. You have it enlarged slightly? In short, that’s a difficult task, that is better left for your lap or your iPad.
On the other hand....can you print out the puzzle before you leave and do it long hand on paper. That’s really the best way... to the point that you start using a pen....
A day without “Today’s Cryptogram” is a day without sunshine....
It certainly is, and thanks to you we have “sunshine” every morning.
BTW - when I said it is a paradox, I didn’t mean the solving of it, I meant the actual quote can be considered a paradox. 😀
You win the thread.
I just do what the voices tell me.
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