Posted on 12/04/2022 4:07:32 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
M KFDZZG EDU'S XSDOG
QDQG, MS'X EJZT JLSXMTF
M'PF CJS SJ CJ DADG
QDQG, MS'X EJZT JLSXMTF
SRMX FPFUMUC RDX QFFU
RJYMUC SRDS GJL'T TKJY MU
XJ, PFKG UMEF
M'ZZ RJZT GJLK RDUTX, SRFG'KF WLXS ZMBF MEFQDQG, MS'X EJZT JLSXMTF
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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90 seconds superior
LE JGD VDMJG ZC FLEJDY, L CLESIIR IDSYEDV JGSJ JGDYD FSU LE OD SE LETLEPLKID UQOODY. – SIKDYJ PSOQU
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. – Albert Camus
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
The Duck Flies At Midnight
Drink your Ovaltine.
Brrr
QDQG, it’s bad out there.
Quite a change from yesterday. Cosmo the Wonder Cat was howling to be let in the house.
Clean copy
M KFDZZG EDU'S XSDG
QDQG, MS'X EJZT JLSXMTF
M'PF CJS SJ CJ DADG
QDQG, MS'X EJZT JLSXMTF
SRMX FPFUMUC RDX QFFU
RJYMUC SRDS GJL'T TKJY MU
XJ, PFKG UMEF
M'ZZ RJZT GJLK RDUTX, SRFG'KF WLXS ZMBF MEFQDQG, MS'X EJZT JLSXMTF
I caught the error before anything else!
The contractions made this one easy-peasy.
There are various puns about unnamed author, or his wife or brother being the evil of two Loessers, pronounced “Lesser”.
Yup!
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