Posted on 05/30/2022 2:37:04 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy
NDKDYFZJ FYD F JHSREW EB LQFK SFVDJ EXY ZFKTEZ AYDFK, FZP LD SXJK ZDNDY BEYADK FWW KQDH QFND PEZD KE DZJXYD EXY BYDDPES. — YEPZDH BYDWTZAQXHJDZ
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.
Have fun with today’s puzzle.
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Thank you!
UM UC JWMFGJ RAJ QC MA IG FGJG XGXUYWMGX MA MFG ZJGWM MWCD JGNWUHUHZ IGRAJG QC, MFWM RJAN MFGCG FAHAJGX XGWX SG MWDG UHYJGWCGX XGKAMUAH MA MFWM YWQCG RAJ SFUYF MFGL ZWKG MFG BWCM RQBB NGWCQJG AR XGKAMUAH MFWM SG FGJG FUZFBL JGCABKG MFWM MFGCG XGWX CFWBB HAM FWKG XUGX UH KWUH; MFWM MFUC HWMUAH CFWBB FWKG W HGS IUJMF AR RJGGXAN; WHX MFWM MFUC ZAKGJHNGHM AR MFG TGATBG, IL MFG TGATBG, RAJ MFG TGATBG, CFWBB HAM TGJUCF RJAN MFG GWJMF. - W. BUHYABH
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. - A. Lincoln
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
I am a NDKDYFZJ, and like a lot of others I like to gently remind people that today is not about us, but about the ones who are no longer among us.
You are exactly right.
And this includes ALL of them
In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE (KIA 1/28/1918)
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Growing up in Northen New Jersey, I often heard the surname of the author on local traffic reports. I later learned the family is an old prominent New Jersey family of Dutch origin.
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