Posted on 09/24/2022 5:07:40 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
SHJYXWE VEUO UZ LYML QOYNWQ IX XLW JWESHEYWQ UV NUCWEQ. - UCYF
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.
10 minutes good
5 minutes excellent
3 minutes exceptional
120 seconds superior
This one may be challenging, a special for a Saturday. Not for beginners.
Hint: https://astronomy.com/observing/sky-this-week/2022/09/the-sky-this-week-from-september-23-to-30
P IZAK HKZOXKN XYV VY SYOOW ZEYQV HYAK; EQV VY IYXYO PVM GYLPXJ SPVI ZHH LW IKZOV. —ZHPGK SZHTKO
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
I HAVE LEARNED NOT TO WORRY ABOUT LOVE; BUT TO HONOR ITS COMING WITH ALL MY HEART. —ALICE WALKER
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Ugh! Common last letter, took a shot at IX XLW, and hit it.
Quite often I get the key to a solution from the attribution at the end. Not many quotable folks have a single 4-letter name, and Cher ain’t quotable.
Well done! I doubt I could have gotten it that quickly.
A challenge for sure.
I managed to turn that one into an ordeal.
Most common letter.
Three-letter word.
Fourth word by letter pattern.
Sixth word (doesn't help much).
Letter pattern, plus letters used up, gives 1st letter of words three and nine.
Letter pattern plus known common English phrases, gives words two-three-four.
Grammar gives last letter of eighth word. This reveals fifth word.
Completion of fifth word reveals last word.
Last word gives author.
Random guesses at 3rd letter of first word (from letters not used); or using your head for a moment from knowledge about the author, gives first word.
That fills in the final word at the same time.
Fin.
If you can guess today’s author’s name (it’s almost always this guy if it’s four letters only), and from that can guess the first word, (think big) it’s easy.
I solved the puzzle but didn’t understand what it meant until I realized the subject of the sentence references post 7 not post 3.
See post 10, which is brilliant.
Thank you for the compliment, Lonesome. I know Romeo and Juliet really well. My stepsister’s husband is a Shakespeare actor at a theater in Atlanta.
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