Posted on 04/15/2023 3:20:12 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
STYDP DF EJK UYMKPPKFE RICEJ, NYKKXDCW PDPSUF IME IH EJK XKSX PSCX, RDODCW RKRIYZ SCX XKFDYK, FEDYYDCW XMPP YIIEF LDEJ FTYDCW YSDC. - E. F. KPDIE
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.
If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.
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MJXN OESR RMRP CNR YBR JADM DEUBY E VAJO HNJZ RQYEAUXEPBRS GJAPYRDDCYEJAP. —KCWDJ ARNXSC
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
YOUR WIDE EYES ARE THE ONLY LIGHT I KNOW FROM EXTINGUISHED CONSTELLATIONS. —PABLO NERUDA
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Lovely quote. Thank you!
Seasonally adjusted, January DF EJK UYMKPPKFE RICEJ. Seasonally adjusted, the warmest, also.
A simple transposing of his first and middle initials would make the author’s name fun to spell backwards.
The image does not show. I have to “open image in a new tab”.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti, “Green Fields of the Mind”
The full moon in May is what I’m waiting for.
Once I recognized the author, boom! And I have daffodils coming up, way up north here.
The moon next weekend brushes past the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, then kisses Venus on his way towards Mars. A lot of very bright and identifiable stars adorn the western sky shortly after sunset. Sirius is the brightest star, but even he does not outshine Venus. Procyon doggedly follows the Hunter to the western horizon. Bright Aldebaran and Capella are familiar friends, and never forget the shoulder of the giant, Betelgeuse.
Former President of Yale and later of the National League. (As I am sure you know.)
Sorry, I haven’t figured out why some show and some don’t when a firewall is not involved. I can see it from my iPhone and iPad.
If April showers bring May flowers, what do Mayflowers bring? Pilgrims.
That’s a nice quote.
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