Posted on 03/02/2019 4:00:55 AM PST by nikos1121
Today’s Cryptogram
EKGGEQ IQQIU HP VKYIYQUU EKGGEQ
NHFIU HP EHTQ XOVQ HJF QOFGR
OY QIQY EKVQ GRQ RQOTQY
ODHTQ. AJEKO O. WOFYQM
You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications, unfortunately they are copyrighted so we can't use them here. So, we're just going to make up our own.
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.
PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you might give the group on how you solve these puzzles. Puzzle solvers love to hear if you found the CG challenging or easy.
You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram.
Solving the puzzle under 8 minutes is good, under 6 very good, under 4 excellent and under two "you're a pro!"
Those of you looking for an added challenge can try to solve one sentence or even one word at a time, i.e. solve the entire first line, then go to the second line etc.
If you need a little help you can copy the cryptogram and paste it to Hal’s Helper below:
You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper.
WELCOME TO: jaded and Ozymandias Ghost
Solution to our last puzzle:
WE SHOULD CERTAINLY COUNT OUR BLESSINGS, BUT WE SHOULD MAKE SURE OUR BLESSINGS COUNT. ROY A. MAXWELL
Very tough puzzle. The author is actually "Neal" A. Maxwell
About 6 min
RDJA, CG RIXXW? JNBXGO G. SGRCJS
That was ‘one for you’ this morning.
Never did get the last name ... had to look it up.
Whipped through this one....looks like I breeze through one then get completely stumped by one.
If Jackie Gleason’s music surprised you, his ‘partners’ name showing up on such a ‘deep’ message is a surprise.
Thx! LOL; I’ve become so addicted to these that I’ve been using the link you posted earlier to do the Daily Cryptoquote from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and had already worked this one a few days ago.
Related trivia: This version appears to be a paraphrase from the original poem; which has a great number of variations and was even parodied by Gelett Burgess in his poem “Tidiness.”
I guessed at by eliminating all the other letters used in the puzzle. 10 of them, but some easily eliminated.
I tried that, but, you know, with the way some last names are spelled, there are some really strange ones out there. I never came across a combination that I felt sure of.
Okay, I found that one difficult. I took over 10 minutes... finally got the first word, but even then it was slow going.
I’m going to avoid the Gazette’s Cryptoquote. I wanted to post these to get everyone’s confidence up.
Also, they’re good ones too.
I’ll be posting from the Gazette on and off, so you might want to stick with these here as you can copy and paste them on Hal etc. :-)
Not to a certainty. I don’t feel too bad if I google one last word, though.
Some commas missing here? Seen punctuation in other ‘grams.
3 min
That’s an excellent point. I’ve decided NOT to use commas to separate phrases unless at some point the word “and” is used and of course to use the comma before a conjunction (i.e. “and”, “but” “or”)
I might be wrong about this. This puzzle certainly had phrases that should have been separated by a comma.
Does this make sense?
WHAT ME WORRY? ALFRED E. NEWMAN
Sometimes it’s impossible to figure out the name, so in those instances, I think it’s permissible to google the phrase.
Hal helps when doing just that.
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