Posted on 01/11/2024 2:32:22 AM PST by nikos1121
HSYKVMYD ML S LFVMFL AP LGSYYFVFB MNNKLMAQL. —NFUSV CKVYAQ
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.
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.
I’m getting nowhere on this one.
That’s what we want. A good old fashioned one, that stumps you for most of the morning.
Im sure someone will leave a clue that makes it obvious.
I can see where this stumps you. A lot of false paths that take you the wrong way.
Wow this is the first short one I actually figured out fairly quickly. Really takes you back to your roots.
Puzzle Number 1 :
VTUO TM XWO PCYYOVX JSVOV TM UCVXSROA CGOAXCXE SFO SUTAY CAXODDOJXKSDV IWT WSNO XFTKPDO FOUOUPOFCAY XWSX XWOE SFO ATX YTG. — XWTUSV VTIODDSolution to previous Puzzle Number 1: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
SOME OF THE BIGGEST CASES OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY ARE AMONG INTELLECTUALS WHO HAVE TROUBLE REMEMBERING THAT THEY ARE NOT GOD. — THOMAS SOWELL
Puzzle Number 2 :
XF DNIINRZ BG XF M XFZNRRFP FTFPK CNRZIF VGPRNRZ. —VFNCBFP FWHQMPBSolution to previous Puzzle Number 2: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
BE WILLING TO BE A BEGINNER EVERY SINGLE MORNING. —MEISTER ECKHART
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Hint: It really takes you back to your ROOTS. H/T to Free Deplorable.
Got it! Don’t think everything you see is real.
Words 2 and 3 are what you think, letter frequency is some help.
Didn’t recognize the author at first. Now I do. Does he think he is some philosopher or something? You could substitute the word “life” for the first word.
There was an old joke:
Clinton Bond - No principle.
Bush Bond - no interest
Perot Bond - no ?
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