Posted on 01/18/2023 12:05:11 AM PST by nikos1121
TQH XL UIFQ NXK GXHXKQ ONR, IOC TQH XL UIFQ NXK CKQIUL HNUNKKNR’L KQITEHZ. —UITITI ZNXLIGVIE
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.
Tricky one from The Arkansas Gazette
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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
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
WHEN YOU HAVE GOT AN ELEPHANT BY THE HIND LEG, AND HE IS TRYING TO RUN AWAY, IT'S BEST TO LET HIM RUN. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Today’s author, in another context, would be a subject of George Herman Ruth Jr.
Interesting thought
Thinking more about the meaning of the quote, I just can’t get John Denver’s song, “Today” out of my head.
Amazingly (for me), I recognized the name first.
Truly amazing. It did not register with me until I had solved the quote.
The contraction did it for me.
Do you take drugs ,Danny?
Today's or Tuesday's?
OK, that WAS tricky.
The weird cadence of the thing threw me off. But the contraction was the key, for me.
Today's. The repetition in the first name.
I’m stumped on this one. The first name looks like it should be obvious.
I would never have recognized that first name, though I might well have recognized Tuesday’s.
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