Posted on 07/05/2023 3:40:29 AM PDT by nikos1121
GUFX DZNX UVXC NX UVXC, JMVKF VSFMNQVXA VHH! JL WXNGNXI OF AGVXC, JL CNKNCNXI OF EVHH. DZUX CNQTNXAZX
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.
From The Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Quote by another patriot and founding father.
Without that hint, I’d have been lost.
The basic line was more recently attributed to the Brotherhood of Man. IMHO
KGA DTOX MG UGOX T ZTMPGZ MDTM NXUXJITMXF PMF PZRXLXZRXZNX XOXIK QAUK 4MD, ZGM EPMD T LTITRX GH CAZF, MTZBF, TZR FGURPXIF EDG HPUX JK PZ T FDGE GH FMIXZCMD TZR SAFNUX, JAM EPMD HTSPUK LPNZPNF EDXIX BPRF MDIGE HIPFJXXF, MDX LGMTMG FTUTR CXMF PHHK, TZR MDX HUPXF RPX HIGS DTLLPZXFF. MDTM’F LTMIPGMPFS. — XIST JGSJXNB
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
YOU HAVE TO LOVE A NATION THAT CELEBRATES ITS INDEPENDENCE EVERY JULY 4TH, NOT WITH A PARADE OF GUNS, TANKS, AND SOLDIERS WHO FILE BY IN A SHOW OF STRENGTH AND MUSCLE, BUT WITH FAMILY PICNICS WHERE KIDS THROW FRISBEES, THE POTATO SALAD GETS IFFY, AND THE FLIES DIE FROM HAPPINESS. THAT’S PATRIOTISM. — ERMA BOMBECK
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
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