Posted on 06/10/2023 4:09:51 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
MPDE MPD RPHKD UPHKK FD UMNKK JDHV ML YD,
RPDE MPD YNJENBPM KHYG FZVEU JNY,
TLV MPD UMZJDEM'U FLLQ HEJ PNU THI'VNMD ELLQ
HVD NKKZYNE'J FO MPD HNJ LT PNY
TVLY ELED LT PNU MVNFD ALZKJ RD D'DV NYFNFD,
UL ZUDTZK, UL FKDUUDJ H MPNEB,
MPDE RD'KK LE KHEJ BL PHEJ NE PHEJ,
ML MPD PHKK LT PNY MPD LADHE QNEB- UDHYHE'U CLZVEHK, 1840
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.
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior
YKWN IG KH RBM DNEN JB SKN JBUBEEBD. YNIEC IG KH RBM DNEN JB YKWN HBENWNE. —UIXIJUI OICSXK
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
LIVE AS IF YOU WERE TO DIE TOMORROW. LEARN AS IF YOU WERE TO LIVE FOREVER. —MAHATMA GANDHI
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Home-schooled?
Call me Ishmael.
Could we make a rule to use English language as spoken now in the US ? That’s just messed up !
Ne-er say'ng how long 'er it took o'me.
Thanks for the feedback. I thought we might enjoy a challenge on Saturday. The Cryptoquote published in the Arkansas Gazette, once had a much smaller quote in dialect, that was challenging, but fun. This one is long enough that it should be doable, but a Saturday challenge. And I reserve the right to quote Shakespeare without reservation.
I’m mostly kidding. I’ll take the challenge, anyday ! Don’t pick these following my guidelines - they’d be too easy !
Biden wants to use the Green New Deal to bring us back to the 1840’s....
There aren’t enough of them to fill all of our lamps anymore.
I like the challenge. When I see odd contractions, I assume poetry and ignore usual rules for contractions. I
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