Posted on 02/06/2023 1:14:03 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy
K WS LSJ JRIC R TKLVDC LCHTXRXCB, LSB BCRW SLC R OSLJZ, RLW K PCCD ONTCDP KLPKLKJCDN JZC ZRXXKCB PSB KJ. — JZSORT MCPPCBTSL
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
PROP GON DONG
Definitely one of those times when I wish there was an “edit post” option on FR.
MDV EOUC TNG BOFD N RNBBPPU TOWM GWNWOH HBOUZ, NWWVNHWOUZ VNUCPE OCDNG NG WMDL KBPNWDC RL. ― XPUNWMNU KVNUADU
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
Her mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by. ― Jonathan Franzen
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
MDV EOUC TNG BOFD N RNBBPPU TOWM GWNWOH HBOUZ, NWWVNHWOUZ VNUCPE OCDNG NG WMDL KBPNWDC RL. ― XPUNWMNU KVNUADU
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
Her mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by. ― Jonathan Franzen
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
I will have whatever kind of Tuesday, I wish, nonetheless. Certainly without a LCHTXRXCB.
I thought it was deliberate, given the theme. Take the win and have a great day! 😃
Spoiler: There is a certain backstory to this. Today’s author ran for office ran against a good friend from Massachusetts, and defeated him. During the campaign he secretly employed a writer, a “journalist” who ran a LCHTXRXCB printing the original Steele Dossier, full of fictious libels against his opponent. The truth reached his opponent, and lead to an estrangement between the old friends.
When MCPPCBTSL won office, his “correspondent” expected to be rewarded. He was hoping to become ambassador to France, but was offered the job of local postmaster, which he angrily refused. He continued his “journalism” and alleged that MCPPCBTSL had fathered a child by his slave, who was also his late wife’s half sister. (She was in fact his late wife’s half sister.) This is the only known contemporary account of this situation.
The breach with his former opponent persisted, but when his daughter died, his opponent’s wife, though unschooled, a talented and prolific letter writer, sent our author a note of condolence. MCPPCBTSL’s daughter had lived with his opponent’s family in London when his future opponent was Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and MCPPCBTSL was on a diplomatic mission to France. The letter-writer had grown fond of her at this time. Events lead to the rekindling of the old friendship. Many years later, the old friend and MCPPCBTSL died on the same day, in July, 1826, unbeknownst to each other.
He also disapproved of novels for young ladies, as I remember.
I wonder what he would have thought of MSNBC or CNN ?
Over twenty years without one about now.
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