Posted on 03/20/2025 3:39:16 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
CPL LHMD TJMOIHK QXDOIU YTDIPE. PQBDHIHCTDQ BTEE MQ BVPB BVT QMI VPQ NDHQQTS BVT TJMPBHD PIS OQ OI BVT IHDBVTDI NTETQBOPE VTCOQXVTDT, HI BVT MXGPDS VPEA HA VOQ TBTDIPE QOQLXVTPI ZHMDITL. - PIHILCHMQ
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.
If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.
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X WXIF KBL RFBRWF [MNFDXJMOQ], ELC KBL MDF QFOCXNFOCMW QAXCQ! KBL HMWW XO WBZF SXCA CAF RBFCQ; CAF RBFCQ HMWW XO WBZF SXCA CAF NMDYXQCQ; CAF NMDYXQCQ HMWW XO WBZF SXCA CAFNQFWZFQ. CAF JBLOCDK HMWWQ XO WBZF SXCA CAF DAFCBDXJ, MOV XO CAF FOV SF [OXJMDMTLMOQ] MDF QCLJI SXCA CKDMOCQ. - PMUK, JAMDMJCFD XO CAF HXWN "LOVFD HXDF"Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
I like you people [Americans], but you are sentimental shits! You fall in love with the poets; the poets fall in love with the Marxists; the Marxists fall in love with themselves. The country falls in love with the rhetoric, and in the end we [Nicaraguans] are stuck with tyrants. - Jazy, Character in the film "Under Fire"
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
I am out of practice. I quit doing these for about a year, and now I’m cloudy and slow, and even recognizing that author took a while.
Thanks.
He pushed a rock up a hill and could never get to the top of the hill.
That one should have been very difficult, but it fell together quite nicely.
And like the sun, always rolled back down to the bottom.
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