Posted on 08/13/2023 4:27:00 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
JKUS MKLM MKU HFFA KLXU GABUY, GLUILA KLMK JUHM. LPOBMBFS IKFQVY OU PLYU FD IMUASUA IMQDD. - PLAG LSMKFSZ BS NQVBQI GLUILA
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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EP FHUB, AQMO QKRM K YKOLUI LU JQLJKIH: "HUJM LY QKWWMUYAKUJM. AGLJM LY JHLUJLBMUJM. AQM AQLPB ALEM LA'Y MUMEO KJALHU." - KZPLJ IHCBNLUIMP
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." - Auric Goldfinger
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Didn’t the author have a thing for Cleopatra?
Et tu?
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety: other women cloy
The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies;”
I knew I could count on you!
I seriously doubt that the author nor GLUILA ever cared a bit about the HFFA.
The first sentence of the quote has been the hymnal of demagogues for millennia.
That one was really hard for me. I wouldn’t have figured it out if not for the clues left by FReepers.
Words two and three were my starters.
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