Posted on 04/22/2023 3:30:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
SASYJPVRAZ BRJJ RZGURVPTJK PZW OANSJGVGJK AYVLVDRS BQPVGUGD LNPJJ RZODGPLGL RZ XAAW LYSSJRGL BG NPEG. VQG WGPVQ DPVG BRJJ RZODGPLG YZVRJ PV JGPLV 100-200 NRJJRAZ SGASJG SGD KGPD BRJJ TG LVPDURZI VA WGPVQ WYDRZI VQG ZGFV VGZ KGPDL. - SPYJ GQDJROQ OAZXRWGZVJK OGJGTDPVRZI GPDVQ WPK 1970
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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90 seconds superior
BSPVXBF JXGG PCWB U KUB’D VSKY XBPS U ZUDPGY KSWY ICXZTGQ UBH YNNYZPXEYGQ PVUB U HUZVDVCBH. —ICYYB EXZPSWXU
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
NOTHING WILL TURN A MAN’S HOME INTO A CASTLE MORE QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVELY THAN A DACHSHUND. —QUEEN VICTORIA
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
A clickfest today. Die, all you useless eaters!
Your huddled masses yearning to breath free
Well, Happy Saturday to you too ! (kind of a downer today!)
With China buying all the farmland - this is probably accurate !
It’s turtles all the way down.
That took some picking at.
Correctly guessing the double-letter (JJ) broke it open for me in a hurry. From there, one word let to another until it was solved.
Today’s author had a long and very public career, in which he was spectacularly wrong about everything.
Our author also very famously lost a doom and gloom $10000 bet to Julian Simon, which is pretty funny to remember. Good times good times!
640 KB ought to be enough for anybody.
World population has doubled since 1970, hunger and poverty have plummeted.
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