Posted on 06/02/2025 1:12:15 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy
IOOQJE QI VOUQOTQJE, VNZ ROOUQJE QI ZGO ZXNZG. — ZGYFLI RNUUOX
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
Haven’t solved one a while but decided to try Grok, Elon Musk’s AI. Answer in seconds with clues of how to solve it and verification of the quote.
AL QLB BNT CIPDNB XZQT ILMTM CWLH BL FTTB BNV JPMM EB FLIQPQD NLZIM? --HPWWPEF R. CIVEQBSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
DO NOT THE BRIGHT JUNE ROSES BLOW TO MEET THY KISS AT MORNING HOURS? --WILLIAM C. BRYANT
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Short ones are usually hard, but today’s was not. The conjunction and verbs are obvious, the short words are too. It’s fill in the blanks thereafter. AI probably attacks them by finding consistent substitutions for shortest words first and works its way up word length. It would still need a sizeable vocabulary, and some rudimentary knowledge of grammar, and maybe syntax.
I actually wrote my own script to play WORDL, and after it was debugged it never failed. (Once I had to finish a puzzle because the solution was not in its vocabulary - it picked up a new five letter word that day.) WORDL is 100% analogous to Mastermind, but with more symbols, 26 “colors” vs. 6, and longer “messages”, five characters vs. four. But WORDL is constrained to approximately 2500 or so valid five letter English words. Or wordls. Also in English certain letters (”colors”) are more likely than others, which gives a preference in choosing what appear to be equally likely “guesses”.
Thanks.
Wow. That one was easy. It took less than a minute. I was sure it was going to be really hard today.
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