Posted on 01/17/2023 2:04:39 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy
SDWP NGK DFYW JGL FP WEWRDFPL ZN LDW DBPA EWJ, FPA DW BC LVNBPJ LG VKP FSFN, BL'C ZWCL LG EWL DBO VKP. — FZVFDFO EBPIGEP
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.
Have fun with today’s cryptogram and have a TERRIFIC TUESDAY.
Gonna buy me a Mercury
Cruise up and down this road
Then why didn’t he let my people go? Instead he invaded their homeland.
HDHMXWBZX YABJI PG XBT OMH CBB EOMHGTN XBT OMH IB BEETKPHZ PA WHPAU EOMHGTN CROC XBT OMH ITMH CB ICTQWNH BDHM IBQHCRPAU. — UHMCMTZH ICHPA
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
EVERYBODY KNOWS IF YOU ARE TOO CAREFUL YOU ARE SO OCCUPIED IN BEING CAREFUL THAT YOU ARE SURE TO STUMBLE OVER SOMETHING. — GERTRUDE STEIN
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Go down Moses
Way down in Egypt land
Tell ol’ Pharaoe to
Let My People Go!
I was going to say, he clearly changed his mind later.
Coincidently, that’s the only Faulkner I’ve ever read.
My thoughts on this quote……
The author was making use of a off quoted symbol which I posted a picture of. It can represent many events such as the one that comes to my mind: Why do they insist on hanging on to the global warming panic even when we can see it is a lie. They are not bound by the rope but by their own instilled belief.
This one was easy.
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