Posted on 05/04/2023 5:56:17 AM PDT by nikos1121
G FGZOX TNOKYAO MGSW NV ZWGJJX QAVO G PWWONLU. —QAJNG MKNJC
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.
Short and sweet, that has plenty of clues to start you going.
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BYQYQWYB IKZI SXVSZX JCCV SN ZN ABYZI ZN SI SN WYMZONY CJ SIN QZASMZP ONY CJ NLSMYN. —QZVKOB HZJJBYR
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
REMEMBER THAT INDIAN FOOD IS AS GREAT AS IT IS BECAUSE OF ITS MAGICAL USE OF SPICES. —MADHUR JAFFREY
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into.
Thank you for posting these! Cute quote.
Double letters and author’s first name helped me solve it.
I thought Marie Antoinette said that !!!
I did not have much problem with it, until I tried to figure out the third letter in MGSW. For some reason it stumped me for a while. I had to go through the alphabet to get it. I had all the other letters in the puzzle. (I did not look at the clues.) My “breakthrough” was TNOKYAO which letter frequency and pattern gave me. The repeated common letter “O” in that word gave me the word, and the puzzle.
I am not sure I could solve any of these without the letter frequency numbers.
I been doing them so long that sometimes I can just guess the first few words, or a phrase here or there, and after that it more or less fills itself in. Not this one.
I got it by a longshot guess on the letter pattern in ZWGJJX
That took me longer than it should have.
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