Posted on 03/30/2023 3:41:45 AM PDT by nikos1121
ZVWJB TMSUHB: NZQZLBAZW NMSOA TMVBMFB LOBWTB JBE EXZT KZJ NWOQZFJ HWULBE MSE MG VI NWI? —LUZFHBTT OBZW, “TEWU NWUT”
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.
EW DNRQR RBRQ YACRI K PKOUNRT UR YKT’D VR DASRDNRQ,
FRRG CR ET OAJQ NRKQD; E’XX IDKO DNRQR WAQRBRQ. —K.K. CEXTR
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
IF THERE EVER COMES A DAYWHEN WE CAN’T BE TOGETHER,
KEEP ME IN YOUR HEART; I’LL STAY THERE FOREVER. —A.A. MILNE
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
OOPS!
Let me re-post this for the group, as the first three words are not part of the quote.
NMSOA TMVBMFB LOBWTB JBE EXZT KZJ NWOQZFJ HWULBE MSE MG VI NWI? —LUZFHBTT OBZW, “TEWU NWUT”
Yeah, that threw me for a while.
Thanks for the challenge.
Sorry about that. It was going to go with a photo, that would have given the author’s name away.
Tough one today, otherwise! Maybe those bonus letters helped.
Without that photo, I’d have never gotten it.
Sorry about my #9 giving away part of the answer.
Already asked mods to remove
Hope they do quickly
Word five finally revealed itself. This one wasn’t easy.
This was a Chewy Puzzle.
B was the most common letter, which suggested the double T.
Punch it !!
Ha! I got it anyway, but it took me a while to get started.
Somehow, I got a lucky guess on the fourth to last word, just from the double letters at the end.
Sorry about that. It was going to go with a photo, that would have given the author’s name away.
Tough one today, otherwise! Maybe those bonus letters helped.
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