Posted on 01/17/2019 5:53:43 AM PST by nikos1121
Today’s Cryptogram
URQ BKUTIU TI VXURTVH STURXMU URQ HTNU, YMU URQ HTNU TI VXURTVH STURXMU SXKF. QDTPQ OXPB
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.
Send me a private reply if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram.
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 solves these puzzles.
You can certainly send your solution to my private reply or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram.
It’s easier to work on the puzzle without having to use your pencil.
Solution to our last puzzle:
A LIE GETS HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD BEFORE THE TRUTH HAS A CHANCE TO GET ITS PANTS ON. WINSTON CHURCHILL
Yippee! The quote sprang together. The author of the quote is a mystery but working on it.
Wow!!!! Hint:He’s French
Check your private reply
Excellent hint..... though I ‘guessed’ at the wrong last name first time around it swiftly worked itself in..
4-
(Not a whole slew of 4 letter French last names...<: <:)
2min on the quote, stumped on the name till the hint.
That 3 letter word helped out a lot
Correction. That 3 letter word repeated 3 times helped out a lot
Yes, good job. That little word gave you a bunch of letters.
Anyone still needing a hint on the author? Think “Dreyfus”.
Easy 2 minutes. So many repeated words.
I think everyone is just getting better at these...
It was only 2 minutes to get the phrase. You can add 30 seconds to that as I did have to google the phrase to get the author. :)
-PJ
Okay, that was hard. That took about 6 minutes. The repeating pattern helped, and identifying the 2 and 3 letter words helped. The name was the last thing to become clear.
The first three words helped immensely.
First do a frequency count of the letters. The order of occurrence in English plain-text is: ETONAIRS, with the least occurring is JKQXZ. Proper names or language specific to science, technology, or some activity where the word usage is more limited, would alter the frequency of the letters used.
I was hoping that the transposition alphabet would have been mixed using a key-word, but I didn’t see one.
Anythingunder 8 is good.....
If you use Hal’s cryptogram helper, it does a frequency count for you at the bottom of the page.
That is great if it is a substitution cipher; not sure it would be helpful for a transposition cipher though.
You are correct, not too good for a transposition; the freq. count would be the same no matter what position they were in.
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