Posted on 10/09/2022 4:24:22 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
MNLMZN VGL NEFLW XNNCJEQR RGLSZY ELC AN JE DGBPQN LK BEWCGJEQ. - CGLXBR RLVNZZ
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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G'RN HMPXV TCIKNCJ QMCB ENJF QANX KMP AIRN EGW TYIKNCJ. -BXPFN CMDBXN
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
"I've found prayers work best when you have big players." -Knute Rockne
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
First word.
Amends for yesterday’s more challenging one.
Thanks. We sleepy-heads appreciate it.
I do wordle through bleary eyes every morning.
That’s what did it for me too.
The guy in the cubicle across from mine is named Scott Adams. Not that Scott Adams.
I used to work in the basements, backyards, airways, streets and rooftops of Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx so I often loved being called to a XNNCJEQ. It meant I’d be dry in the rain, warm in the winter, cool in the summer, could sit down and most of all....KPNN YLESCR!!!
Excepting those benefits, the author is correct.
I remember in the Army in Germany, we had an ad hoc “class” on vehicle maintenance in the middle of winter on the hardstand (parking lot) during a snowstorm. The grizzled old sergeant delivering the “class” at the colonel’s “request” just stood there swearing and saying it was the stupidest thing he had ever seen in his Army career, which encompassed the Kasserine Pass and obviously had seen more than his share of misadventures.
Was far from unhappy when my military obligation was in my rear view mirror.
Thanks. That opened it up for me.
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