Posted on 06/05/2022 3:17:40 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
V OHTS CMPC V PU UTBCPY EX HPCABN, PHW NQMNUNBPY; EAC SMNH V CBPIN PC UX QYNPFABN CMN SVHWVHDF CT PHW GBT TG CMN MNPRNHYX ETWVNF V HT YTHDNB CTAIM CMN NPBCM SVCM UX GNNC: V FCPHW VH CMN QBNFNHIN TG KNAF MVUFNYG PHW CPON UX GVYY TG PUEBTFVP. ― QCTYNUX'F PYUPDNFC
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.
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior
YXL FKXFWK WVGK ZN MIX DKWVKAK VB FIHNVTN, CIK NKFULUCVXB DKCMKKB FUNC, FLKNKBC UBE YZCZLK IUN XBWH CIK VPFXLCUBTK XY UB UEPVCCKEWH CKBUTVXZN VWWZNVXB. - UWDKLC KVBNCKVB
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
FOR PEOPLE LIKE US WHO BELIEVE IN PHYSICS, THE SEPARATION BETWEEN PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE HAS ONLY THE IMPORTANCE OF AN ADMITTEDLY TENACIOUS ILLUSION. - ALBERT EINSTEIN
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
My dabblings in astronomy have taught me patience... ‘though I am sometimes a poor student.
Not the soldier.
And not bad...it took another 1500 years, give or take, to fix the central error, and another hundred to realize it wasn't exactly circles. But, yeah, impressive.
It took 1500 years to improve on it. Without the Babylonians, he wouldn’t have known were to start. Without him Copernicus wouldn’t have had a starting point, and without Copernicus, no Kepler, without Kepler, no Newton.
Nice!
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