Posted on 12/25/2023 2:33:37 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy
QFE PSH SLIH, PSH IHFNH, PSH VLE, FUK PSH YLRH DHIDHCHUPHK AE PSH ABDPS BU AHPSYHSHQ PSBC UBTSP ZBYY LWD YBRHC FUK AHNLQH IFDP LZ FYY PSFP XH CFE FUK KL. QFE XH CSFDH PSH KBRBUH YBZH LZ ELWD CLU VHCWC NSDBCP, HRHU FC SH SWQAYHK SBQCHYZ PL CSFDH LWD SWQFUBPE. FQHU. — DHR. DBNSFDK ZFBDNSBYK
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.
Enjoy today’s cryptogram and Merry Christmas everyone!
NMRL NQK PVQP LTLB ‘ZQXHNP PVQP NLQNMH FMRLNSolution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
UVLBLXH MCB NQTXMCB’N OXBPV XN FLWLOBQPLY,
PVL OXBY MS YQUHXHZ NXHZLPV QWW HXZVP WMHZ:
QHY PVLH, PVLK NQK, HM NJXBXP YQBL NPXB QOBMQY;
PVL HXZVPN QBL UVMWLNMRL; PVLH HM JWQHLPN NPBXIL,
HM SQXBK PQILN, HMB UXPFV VQPV JMULB PM FVQBR,
NM VQWWMU’Y QHY NM ZBQFXMCN XN PVL PXRL.– VQRWLP, QFP 1, NFLHL 1.
Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow’d and so gracious is the time.– Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 1.
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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