Posted on 12/29/2024 4:54:05 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
VMIL MCXV XZZA C WCPHZP'X OIY TCPF CV C TZYYCP?… CAO VMZ QPZCVLPZ PLA WPIH VMZ QLP? VMZPZ VMIL HDYMVXV TZMIJO VMZ YPZCV DHCYZ IW CLVMIPDVU: C OIY'X ITZUZO DA IWWDQZ. - FDAY JZCP, CQV 4, XQZAZ 6
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
IG YKL EIATYK ZCM IE SKTWQYFCQSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
FM YTAL JIOL QLGY YI FL:
EIAT SCJJWGV PWTZQ
YKTLL ETLGSK KLGQ
YUI YATYJL ZIOLQ
CGZ C DCTYTWZVL WG C DLCT YTLL-IJZ LGVJWQK QLCQIGCJ QIGV
On the fourth day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
four Calling Birds
three French Hens
two Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree-Old English Seasonal Song
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Do what I tell you. And heel! Dammit
Well, okay.....
I knew you’d like it. I try not to be too boring.
I was scratching my head, LOL
Thanks.
Dost, archaic second person singular, present tense of the auxillary verb “to do” takes the infinitive form of associated action verb, “to speak”. Hence, “The King’s English, dost thou speak it?”
Well no, the property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we Americans own the bulk of the shares. I do appreciate some of the better specimens of its skillful employment by its best practitioners, however.
Lonesome, you made me less so this evening.
Be thy mouth or black or white,
Tooth that poisons if it bite,
Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim,
Hound or spaniel, brach or him,
Bobtail tyke or trundle-tail—
Tom will make them weep and wail.
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