Posted on 11/20/2023 1:27:34 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy
ZNSNGNFWMNIJ NX JIM NJVTDNMTU; NM VWX MI RT GTWDJTU WJU TWDJTU RB TWZV CTJTDWMNIJ WJTE; NH MVT MDWJXKNXXNIJ XVIAGU RT NJMTDDAOMTU HID IJT ZTJMADB, ZNSNGNFWMNIJ EIAGU UNT, WJU ET XVIAGU RT XWSWCTX WCWNJ. —ENGG WJU WDNTG UADWJM
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.
Enjoy today’s cryptogram and have a MARVELOUS MONDAY.
-PJ
Two minutes. It all fell neatly together from the first word guess.
I figured it out in seconds, from the quote source. Oft seen on a very sturdy bookshelf in my house, and a source of many happy hours of study.
ZRVLSR ZRY NBNHYEAB NLZRVIAZAYK NIY NBZLNTTP MIVLH VQ BVOHLBZAOS YUYIPZRAOS GP EYNOK VQ YDNEAONZAVOK, ZRYP KYTHVE AOHLTSY AO JRNZ IYTASAVLK MYVMTY LKYH ZV HYKBAGY NK KYTQ-YDNEAONZAVO. ZRY BVOKYXLYOBY AK ZRNZ ZRY EVHYIO KZNZY RNK YHLBNZYH AZK BAZAFYOK AO N KYIAYK VQ YMRYEYINT QNHK. - S. C. BRYKZYIZVOSolution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads. - G. K. Chesterton
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Letter frequency and length make this one a no-brainer, but an important message. Yesterday’s quote warns.
Some of their works were in the family library. I never read any of them. There was too much Kipling and Haggard. And Doyle.
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