Posted on 05/23/2023 2:11:33 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy
GBF TVF GBXVQ ERV YFRDW XW GBF NVZVTLV. LBFV UDFWFVGFA LXGB GBXW WHFVRDXT, XVAXJXANRI DXQBGW LXII KF LXIIXVQIO DFIXVCNXWBFA YTD GBF QNRDRVGFF TY GBFXD LFII-KFXVQ QDRVGFA GT GBFE KO R LTDIA QTJFDVEFVG, R VFL LTDIA TDAFD. — BFVDO R. ZXWWXVQFD
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.
Enjoy today’s cryptogram and have a TERRIFIC TUESDAY.
Looking like that, he bedded Jill St. John
BTW, he turns 100 on Saturday.
“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
UPO QWW AZMGLAQWK QBM XQC. FLOZPSO AZMGLAQWK KSAZ QK ZDCBPYMU QUC PIDYMU, RPB MIQGHWM, OZMBM FPSWC XM UP FQD OP GQVM FQOMB, Q NLOQW LUYBMCLMUO LU XMMB. — CQNM XQBBD
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
NOT ALL CHEMICALS ARE BAD. WITHOUT CHEMICALS SUCH AS HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE WOULD BE NO WAY TO MAKE WATER, A VITAL INGREDIENT IN BEER. — DAVE BARRY
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Jou vill eat bugs, undt like it
Was he thinking this is a bad thing or a good thing ?
“Only the good die young”
I thought he was old back in the day.
As I recall, the author of this quotation was in the running....
Sad, but true.
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