Posted on 03/15/2023 4:01:53 AM PDT by nikos1121
ZQJ XHI L RLTT NLQX
BKJ FLEKB RZFXU, HQX
BKJI RLTT CJ ULPVTJ. —YHOW WJFZSHO
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.
TODAY'S CHALLENGE!!!!!
SOLVE THE FIRST LINE OF THE PUZZLE QUOTE
BEFORE COMPLETING THE SECOND LINE
5 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
1 minute or less is off the chart
This is a good one today, that opens up like a ripe melon the more you study it.
Extra 10 points if you can get the name of the author without peeking.
Look over the clues that are there for you, BEFORE you start.
HInt:First word is NOT what you think it is...
Not too complex.
I had to look up the author since I didn’t recognize the name. He was a counter culture Beatnic writer and alcoholic who died in his 40’s who I don’t think ever realized the “dream” he expressed in the quote.
It’s because it was too simple.
Letter combo on words 3 and 4 opens it up.
Think of how sentences usually go, and you’ll make the right choice; inadvertently fulfilling the quote, by the way.
Bit of a challenge. There are no “give aways” today. Author is unknown to me... no help whatsoever.
Yes. Lot’s of clues on this one, that seems intimidating at first. BKJ and BKJI, double letters at the end of a word almost always this common letter, the most frequent letter etc.
Doing it line by line, though is not easy.
Mrs CG read OTR back in her hipster days. I think it was overrated. Anyway, the first four words solved themselves.
Hay, Dad-E-O.
See ya later alligator, after a while crocodile.....
Beatnik jokes
1. Cool Pappa walks into coffee shop and asks “How’s the pecan pie?”
Beat girl behind the counter sez: “The pecan pie’s gone.”
Cool Pappa sez: “Dig it. I’ll take two pieces.”
2, Two Beatniks walking down the street
when the rope breaks on a safe that was being hoisted up the side of the building.
The safe comes crashing down, smashing onto the sidewalk just behind the two.
Beatnik #1 jumps and says, “What was that?”
Beatnik #2 quickly replies, “B-flat man,” while never missing a beat while snapping his fingers.
3. A tourist asks a New York beatnik, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Answer: “Practice, man, practice.”
I know they were later called Hippies, but this guy was before that I think.
Mark Twain said it was the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug.
I’m hip.
Solved it fairly quickly, but had to look up the author. The quote doesn’t make any sense, though.
If it doesn’t make any sense to you, then you are most likely normal.
UY UI TUMMUWSOY YD IJC PBJY UI URKDIIUXOQ, MDE YBQ TEQJR DM CQIYQETJC UI YBQ BDKQ DM YDTJC JFT YBQ EQJOUYC DM YDRDEEDP. — EDXQEY B. LDTTJET
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY WHAT IS IMPOSSIBLE, FOR THE DREAM OF YESTERDAY IS THE HOPE OF TODAY AND THE REALITY OF TOMORROW. — ROBERT H. GODDARD
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
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