Posted on 05/26/2024 4:30:58 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
EL CYEV OT PQLEYCROYT, UOCH PJ UOCHT;
APPU PC EL BPZUT, LV EOHIXL, YCR RVTNYOZ!
CPXIOCH KVTORV ZVEYOCT. ZPSCR XIV RVMYL
PJ XIYX MPAPTTYA BZVMU, KPSCRAVTT YCR KYZV
XIV APCV YCR AVWVA TYCRT TXZVXMI JYZ YBYL.-NVZML KLTTIV TIVAAVL
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.## ping list message
If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.
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JLCCBM XHDBMITTI - JLCCBM XHDBMITTI; DT CB DUTJB UXFB XEYXPJ KBBI DUB DYT CTJD KBXLDAHLE YTMSJ AI DUB BIREAJU EXIRLXRB. - UBIMP QXCBJSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
SUMMER AFTERNOON - SUMMER AFTERNOON; TO ME THOSE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE TWO MOST BEAUTIFUL WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. - HENRY JAMES
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
In one sci-fi story I read, he was a robot. That made more sense.
Thread winner ...
Thanks.
His wife might have made him a cyborg.
Haven't done these for a while... all good... traveling in England... home soon !
Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?
The kings of the earth take their stand
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,
“Let us tear their fetters apart
And cast away their cords from us!”
He who sits in the heavens laughs,
The Lord scoffs at them.
Then He will speak to them in His anger
And terrify them in His fury, saying,
“But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”
“I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord:
He said to Me, ‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance,
And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.
‘You shall break them with a rod of iron,
You shall shatter them like earthenware.’”
Now therefore, O kings, show discernment;
Take warning, O judges of the earth.
Worship the Lord with reverence
And rejoice with trembling.
Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way,
For His wrath may soon be kindled.
How blessed are all who take refuge in Him! Psalms 2
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