Posted on 01/20/2025 2:30:06 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy
SRN HUAHFJ MUQTXXG KUJZTQSXNK SRN SNQSJ TQK XNMS SPDQ. — FQBQPDQ
The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogr)am).
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.
Enjoy today’s Cryptogram
Good one!
…leaving a mess of s#!t that has to be cleaned up.
Thank you, dear Lord !
I thought about that Democrat Dr. Jill abomination just yesterday
The Godless Democrats bring nothing but shame to the White House
KF ZKHH IP JPCPYVHHO XSRCQ FUVF FUSEP ZUS ECPPY UVIKFRVHHO VF URWVC CVFRYP VCQ VXXPNF FS QPEBKEP KF, VYP VWSCJ KFE ZSYEF VCQ HPVEF BHPVEVCF PGVWBHPE. -- NUVYHPE QKNMPCESolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
IT WILL BE GENERALLY FOUND THAT THOSE WHO SNEER HABITUALLY AT HUMAN NATURE AND AFFECT TO DESPISE IT, ARE AMONG ITS WORST AND LEAST PLEASANT EXAMPLES. -- CHARLES DICKENS
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
When I was a kid, I was always sad when the circus left town.
couldn’t handle the coming storm
I was too. But we all know that the clowns belong in the tents, not in DC.
When Circus world was in Orlando back in the late 70’s we took the kids there as a side trip to Disney World. I was a lot younger and crazy, volunteered to be an audience participation pawn in the flying trapeze. The scariest part was climbing the ladder with the Iddy-biddy rungs up the platform at the top of the tent. Once up there they attached a harness and pointed out the nets way below. The adrenaline took over and I had the time of my life for a short 5 minutes of swinging. Then the trainer guy said, “swing out again, let go and do a back flip and land in the net”, and before I could say no he gave me a push off. I’m pretty sure my back flip was a #1 on the 1 to 10 scale, a real flop, but I did, thank the good Lord, land in the net. Yea, it was fun!
My all-time favorite author ...
I used to live near the Belt Parkway near Idlewild (now JFK) Airport. Unrelated to the airport, a circus truck broke down on the service road (commercial vehicles were not allowed on the Parkway) and pulled off on the service road near our house onto a vacant lot, around 1960. The elephants were taken off the trucks and had their shackled legs staked down. There was a truck with an ill-tempered tiger, and fairly wide bars. It was actually sort of dangerous. And quite exciting. We stayed and wandered about until the truck was repaired and headed off.
Things like that don’t happen anymore, and you don’t see circuses much anymore, either.
I solved it; the author is likely not Terence.
Thanks.
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