Posted on 04/11/2024 7:03:56 AM PDT by nikos1121
X OIM YVQQ CE MPQDXUO. BVPMZ JIAQB UIM OVM P YIFB XU VBOVYXWV, OFVY BXWJIAFPOVB, PUB MFPGVQVB IU. —QIAXWV VFBFXJZ, “MFPJDW”
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 Gazette
YI’ZI AEENG YKIPKIZ YI QSFRI EZ FEP, GE YI BHXKP SG YINN QSFRI. —USVSFIGI VZEOIZDSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
WE’RE FOOLS WHETHER WE DANCE OR NOT, SO WE MIGHT AS WELL DANCE. —JAPANESE PROVERBHAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so - John Donne
Finally!
-PJ
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –
Or rather – He passed Us –
The Dews drew quivering and Chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –
Since then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses’ Heads
Were toward Eternity –
-Emily Dickinson
I’m not familiar with the author.
As I recall there’s another author with the same surname — wrote a book about the coming collapse of the economy — written maybe 50 years ago?
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