Posted on 10/16/2022 4:12:18 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
KLYPNEKZL KT NT MKZPVLE NT N GRQQVU, NT YUKQWEVLKLQ NT NL NUGVJ UZCCVU NLJ NT JVNJPO NT N WKE GNL. - UZLNPJ UVNQNL
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.
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior
LHN SUT CH ANC HX LHNK IJXTBSJPQT IJAPKB CH FPC, QJCPKUQQL, CSP HJQ BQJGZ HYY CSP IJXTHI, CSUC達 ISL J UXT BH TUDX DUXL HCSPK APHAQP J FKPI NA SUMP GUXGPK. - VHP MHX DNXGSUNBPX EJTPX
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
YOU HAD TO PUT ON YOUR WINDSHIELD WIPERS TO GET, LITERALLY, THE OIL SLICK OFF THE WINDOW, THAT達 WHY I AND SO DAMN MANY OTHER PEOPLE I GREW UP HAVE CANCER. - JOE VON MUNCHAUSEN BIDEN
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Relax. Our printing presses are running 24/7. We’ll never run out.
I like how you give subtle hints by using the replacement letters as the most obvious—but erroneous—answer to prevent us from going astray.
Completely unintentional. The computer picks the substitutes. I should check for profanity, or offensive words, I suppose. I remember once the newspaper cryptogram began ABCD EFG HIJ. The letter substitution is arbitrary. A popular form of cryptogram is a “book cypher” where each letter of plaintext is substituted for based on a corresponding letter in a book. For instance if the message was:
ATTACK AT DAWN.
and the book began:
CALL ME ISHMAEL.
A + C = D (1 + 3 = 4)
T + A = U (16 + 1 =17)
....
etc. If the sum is greater than 26, subtract 26.
In the book, “The Good Soldier Schweik”, an Austro-Hungarian General is demonstrating this cypher to his officers and boasts about its impenetrability (it is not) while a young cadet from the academy, sent to the front because of the shortage of officers, casually decrypts the General’s impenetrable message.
Today’s is a make-up call for yesterdays.
Thanks to Obama, we no longer have a national budget, we just kick the can down the road to oblivion.
Wilkommen in Weimar Amerika! Quantitative easing is like being a little bit pregnant.
Well, there you go again.
Win one for the author.
Yesterday’s was easier. For me at least. I used to recognize the pattern of today’s author’s name on sight. Like most things, I forgot.
I was completely stumped on yesterday’s cryptogram, but this one fell together pretty easily.
Yesterday’s puzzle had at least two gimmes. The pattern before the Asian character is almost always ‘that’. Also, the pattern ‘people’ should be in everyone’s repertoire. I had trouble with today’s author.
Hhhmmm. I need to start looking for patterns like that. Thanks for the feedback. I’m starting a list of patterns to look for.
Author unknown was maybe the first pattern I learned. I still look at the author first. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are permanent contributors, it looks like. At least since 1984.
Thanks.
I see I’ve been approaching this the hard way. Thank you.
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