Posted on 02/06/2025 3:28:40 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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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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RLG YMRZLHZO XHAM XM WNBJMZ
QBGN MJMZO DHDMZ B'A AMSBJMZ
RHA PMQW EP GNM AEEZWGMD
B VELSAP'G GHUM EPM XEZM WGMD
B VHP'G ZMXMXRMZ BY B VZBMA
QNMP B ZMHA HRELG NBW QBAEQMA RZBAM
RLG WEXMGNBPI GELVNMA XM AMMD BPWBAM
GNM AHO GNM XLWBV ABMA- AEP XVSMHP, HXMZBVHP DBM
Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died- Don McLean, American Pie
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Only please, Brer Fox, please don't throw me into the briar patch.
Is that you, Remus?
Ever been to Splash Mountain?
When Mark Twain was living in Connecticut he hosted today’s author for dinner. Several neighborhood children, along with his own, were invited to join them. When introduced to the author, they shrieked in disappointment, “He’s white!”
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of it.
Good one.
Thanks.
I didn’t time myself today, but it went pretty quickly.
I remember Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit.
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