Posted on 10/20/2024 4:24:52 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

ZNF LA SNOFJNC NVRCNAA SBC PJNCOAJ MSD JMCQ GNNZOSXA FBIMCQ MSD POFOYNS IJB KD JOA HBFN JMA QOGGNCNQ IOFJ LA. ZNF LA MF MZZ FOUNA CNUNUKNC FJMF MZZ MUNCOPMS POFOYNSA MCN KCBFJNCA BG M PBUUBS PBLSFCD, MSQ AJBLZQ QINZZ FBXNFJNC OS FJN KBSQA BG GCMFNCSMZ GNNZOSX. - MKCMJMU ZOSPBZS
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.
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior
HFNJ I SPTNAJYNJV DNGPYNU RPHNAEXK LV LU ONUVAXGVLTN, NWVAITISIJV IJO TLPKNJV; LV LU IJ XUXANA HFLGF VIQNU DANIO EAPY LJJPGNJV YPXVFU IJO ONRALTNU FPJPAIDKN YNJ PE VFNLA UXDUVIJGN, EPA TPVNU HLVF HFLGF VP RNARNVXIVN LVUNKE. - YIAGXU VXKKLXU GLGNAPSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
He means it. Honest.
Before I saw the author’s name, I was thinking this time around is an exception. But he saw it in an even worse state.
Thanks.
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