Posted on 12/28/2022 6:49:31 PM PST by nikos1121
SQWL KDQV’W NIVUW RDSIOP LI SQWL KDQV’W SQOPZQPD. QOU ODAL KDQV’W NIVUW QNQCL QOILYDV HICGD. —L.W. DSCIL
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.
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.
From The Arkansas Gazette
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior
I’ll tell you next year?
I do not understand much of what is today................
ZT VEE LXOVRRHMB, V LXOVRRX BHRWMOMEX MQMOWHBMC TZO LFM SZZC ZT HLB AHWLHNB NVX IM LFM NZBL ZUUOMBBHAM. HL JZPEC IM IMLLMO LZ EHAM PRCMO OZIIMO IVOZRB LFVR PRCMO ZNRHUZLMRL NZOVE IPBXIZCHMB. LFM OZIIMO IVOZR'B WOPMELX NVX BZNMLHNMB BEMMU, FHB WPUHCHLX NVX VL BZNM UZHRL IM BVLHVLMC; IPL LFZBM JFZ LZONMRL PB TZO ZPO ZJR SZZC JHEE LZONMRL PB JHLFZPL MRC TZO LFMX CZ BZ JHLF LFM VUUOZAVE ZT LFMHO ZJR WZRBWHMRWM. — W. B. EMJHB
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
OF ALL TYRANNIES, A TYRANNY SINCERELY EXERCISED FOR THE GOOD OF ITS VICTIMS MAY BE THE MOST OPPRESSIVE. IT WOULD BE BETTER TO LIVE UNDER ROBBER BARONS THAN UNDER OMNIPOTENT MORAL BUSYBODIES. THE ROBBER BARON'S CRUELTY MAY SOMETIMES SLEEP, HIS CUPIDITY MAY AT SOME POINT BE SATIATED; BUT THOSE WHO TORMENT US FOR OUR OWN GOOD WILL TORMENT US WITHOUT END FOR THEY DO SO WITH THE APPROVAL OF THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE. — C. S. LEWIS
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Got the last letter for the contraction first, and then made a guess at the name of the author. It all shook out from there.
Okay, I had to labor over that one for 15 minutes before I finally realized who the author was. That was a hard one for me.
My progress through this one was an exercise in stumbling. Or bumbling.
Same here. All i could think of was my first choice as author, and that wasn’t it. Took a while.
Good choice for a quote, thanks!
It made more sense before I deciphered it.
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