Posted on 01/25/2025 8:17:35 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
OIQ FI TIOB LBI, SPWCOB QDX XTXMQCIO MLZRLCBO, C ELF QLWBXQXS CO LO LQQXZRQXS LFFLFFCOLQCIO LQQXZRQ, EDXO L JPTTXQ RCXWMXS QDWIPBD ZU XLW. JPQ BIS FLGXS ZX JXMLPFX ZU RPWRIFX CF QI "ZLYX LZXWCML BWXLQ LBLCO". - SIOLTS H. QWPZR
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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ELBO VCCA FZ OLN EBHDOL CR ZKDDNH, EFOLCKO OLN PCIA CR EFTONH OC VFXN FO ZENNOTNZZ? - UCLT ZONFTMNPJSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
WHAT GOOD IS THE WARMTH OF SUMMER, WITHOUT THE COLD OF WINTER TO GIVE IT SWEETNESS? - JOHN STEINBECK
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
I thought that might give it away.
Divine intervention
Totally swept under the rug
Praise the Lord!
I did not mean that your post would give it away, I meant that the source THAT I CHOSE might be too obvious. I hope you didn’t ask the moderator or remove it? It was a fine clue and a good post.
I did. No biggie.
The only one of these I’ve ever done was pretty obvious at a glance (a Ford quote). Now I know why I usually skip these. Anyway, from reading one of those youth adventure books (back when I was a youth) it seemed like a good way in is to treat these like simple substitution ciphers, since that’s apparently what they are. :^)
https://tomshli.azurewebsites.net/Home/LetterFrequencyCounter
https://www3.nd.edu/~busiforc/handouts/cryptography/letterfrequencies.html
...to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers...
Looks like I got a D minus. :^) Great choice!
The name was easy. Everything else fell in place.
And I believe what the author said is true.
More importantly, he believes it!
Fight Fight Fight
It’s been a good first week. Here’s hoping.
Just for S & G’s I sent it to Google’s Gemini AI, and it explained how I could solve it myself.
I sent it to Microsoft’s Copilot, and it spit out an answer in 2 seconds.
I haven’t tried the rest.
YES, I know this is for PEOPLE to do to potentially ward off early stage dementia. I just wanted to see how AI would do at it.
Thanks.
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