Posted on 11/12/2023 3:42:13 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
BTCHC MLNC DZF Z GZL JHMG LZLBPNICB
DTM ICQB ZOO TSF NZFT SL Z APNICB.
APB TSF YZPETBCH, LZGCY LZL,
HZL ZDZW DSBT Z GZL
ZLY ZF JMH BTC APNICB, LZLBPNICB.APB TC JMOOMDCY BTC QZSH BM QZDBPNICB,
BTC GZL ZLY BTC ESHO DSBT BTC APNICB;
ZLY TC FZSY BM BTC GZL,
TC DZF DCONMGC BM LZL,
APB ZF JMH BTC APNICB, QZDBPNICB.BTCL BTC QZSH JMOOMDCY QZ BM GZLTZFFCB,
DTCHC TC FBSOO TCOY BTC NZFT ZF ZL ZFFCB,
APB LZL ZLY BTC GZL
FBMOC BTC GMLCW ZLY HZL,
ZLY ZF JMH BTC APNICB, GZLTZFFCB.
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
CWRG JWYOO LFTS ETC TOA, YJ SR CWYC YFR ORBC LFTS TOA:Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
YLR JWYOO ETC SRYFG CWRQ, ETF CWR GRYFJ VTEARQE.
YC CWR LTKEL ATSE TB CWR JZE YEA KE CWR QTFEKEL
SR SKOO FRQRQPRF CWRQ.BTF CWR BYOORE
PG OYZFREVR PKEGTE
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.For the Fallen
BY LAURENCE BINYON
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications.So how come we don't speak Cryptogram?
That’s a sad story
And she was just a floozy, I guess
Pretty much doomed by the first word, but amusing....
A woman whose clothing was strewed
By breezes which left her quite nude
Saw a man come along,
And unless I am wrong,
You expected this line to be lewd
tattooed ... stewed ... prude ... and the ever-popular 23-skidooed ...
Gives Lewis Carroll and “Jabberwocky” a run for its money as a piece of confusing rhyme ...
How about “prude?” 😁
A peg-legged pirate named Gates...
Don’t give me any ideas. The regular newspaper cryptogram once had a posting in thick southern black dialect, which while difficult, conveyed its message (which I forget) very effectively.
Mark Twain, speaking of dialect, often used various American regional dialects and patois, which he claimed were carefully depicted and authentic. He criticized “Fenimore Cooper” for creating highly fictionalized dialect, and complained that “ when a personage talks like an illustrated, gilt-edged, tree-calf, hand-tooled, seven- dollar Friendship’s Offering in the beginning of a paragraph, he shall not talk like a negro minstrel in the end of it. But this rule is flung down and danced upon in the “Deerslayer” tale”
Margret Mitchell, who could only walk with great difficulty when writing Gone With the Wind, had her devoted husband drive out into the hinterland to collect samples of authentic rural black and white dialect, apparently taking Mark Twain’s admonishes to heart.
I thought it was clear enough. If I ever saw a frumious bandersnatch, I would shun it.
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