Posted on 10/15/2023 4:34:45 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
UHBTVJEHBC: R URE YGT GRCZB YTUZE RB UXLG RB YTUZE GRCZ TEZ RETCGZN. - GZENJ DTXHB UZELOZE
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
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90 seconds superior
JIPP AIXPILVKZ PNECKA’ PNECSolution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
(QGNAC ANIP BA ACLAC) SVLLNO VJDBO
VXACLSC, XCSVIAC BO JNOG KCDNEC
OGNAC OGBLRA QGBSG CPCDCLOCJ BO.XIO QC XZ V PNEC, AN DISG KCHBLCJ,
OGVO NIK ACPECA YLNQ LNO QGVO BO BA,
BLOCK-VAAIKCJ NH OGC DBLJ,
SVKC PCAA, CZCA, PBFA, VLJ GVLJA ON DBAA.- MNGL JNLLC, “V EVPCJBSOBNL: HNKXBJJBLR DNIKLBLR”
Dull sublunary lovers’ love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.But we by a love, so much refined,
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.- John Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
One of the all-time greats. Sorry, gals.
Love that !
Ah, who could forget Al Bundy ? Archie Bunker can’t be far behind !
Same author: On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
“I’ve only lately been informed that we are considered the inferior sex.” - Kathrine Hepburn.
Needs the gif of Seinfeld - where the cops turn and go....Oh boy! and throw their hands up in the hair
With the Commish who showed up at Jerry’s apartment and called for....a.....
Is that real fur? Hoo-boy....
You might not know this, but he scored four touchdowns in a single game for the Polk High School Panthers.
That helped.
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