Posted on 10/24/2024 8:56:56 AM PDT by nikos1121
NAOZAOS KID ZAEUB KID TRU IS KID ZAEUB KID TRU'Z, KID'SO SEMAZ.--AOUSK GISP
You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. I challenge us with the best ones out there.
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.
Yesterday’s was supposed to be tough, but just about everyone knocked it out of the park...
Today’s, should be harder.
The apostrophes give it away...
This is not fair. You solved it toooo fast...
The contractions open the door to solving it. But I had to DuckDuckGo the author’s last name. I guessed wrong on that part.
The actual phrase was easy to discern, but I appear to have found cipher errors (cipher version standing for more than one letter).
-PJ
Whoops, never mind. [blush]
Ooops, you beat me to it.
XKRJ JALQ AR EQPQZ NKTEM IDIAE. ---SQEGILAE NZIEFXAESolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
LOST TIME IS NEVER FOUND AGAIN. ---BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Another really good one!
Today’s was even easier. Sorry. Contractions give it away.
Actually I found this easier.
It was the repetitive three letter word that was the clue for me.
You thought I couldn’t solve it.
I knew better.
I was helped by that Ancient Greek author,
Apostrophes.
The three letter word used as the beginning of a contraction. Not at all difficult.
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