Posted on 04/23/2023 3:40:47 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
DQ BNU EKRU DEGROU BNPB PEJNUR BNU WZVVR,
BNUGE WZPO BV PIEGZ’T DEUUFU KXWKEZUR,
NUEU VXJU BNU UYDPBBZUR WPEYUET TBVVR
PXR WGEUR BNU TNVB NUPER EVKXR BNU SVEZR.- E. S. UYUETVX, JVXJVER NQYX
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
SASYJPVRAZ BRJJ RZGURVPTJK PZW OANSJGVGJK AYVLVDRS BQPVGUGD LNPJJ RZODGPLGL RZ XAAW LYSSJRGL BG NPEG. VQG WGPVQ DPVG BRJJ RZODGPLG YZVRJ PV JGPLV 100-200 NRJJRAZ SGASJG SGD KGPD BRJJ TG LVPDURZI VA WGPVQ WYDRZI VQG ZGFV VGZ KGPDL. - SPYJ GQDJROQ OAZXRWGZVJK OGJGTDPVRZI GPDVQ WPK 1970
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years. - Paul Ehrlich confidently celebrating Earth Day 1970SIDEBAR: EARTH'S POPULATION HAS DOUBLED SINCE 1970, POVERTY AND HUNGER HAVE PLUMMETTED TOO
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Where’s Waldo?
HAPPY PATRIOTS DAY!
No gender confused, demon possessed people in that era. BRAVE MEN !
I whipped through that one! This is a favorite author of mine. And the BNPB word always helps me out.
There should be an apostrophe before EVKXR, but “Silent Night” often omits it too.
That was essentially John Adams argument when he successfully defended the Red Coats who were, in fact, tried by a Boston jury, and acquitted, save, I believe one, convicted of manslaughter. The penalty for a first conviction of manslaughter was to be branded on the hand with a signifying mark. The penalty for a second conviction was hanging. This was this individual’s first conviction.
Mitt, why dost thou transport thy hound on the top of thy wagon?
Old Johnny Carson bit was reading items sent to him by grade school teachers.
One teacher had asked her class to draw a nativity scene. Little Ralphie’s picture had the sheapherds, Wise men, Mary and Joseph and off to the side, a little fat guy. When teacher asked who *that* was, Ralphie replied, “Round John Virgin.”
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