Posted on 02/29/2024 5:04:27 AM PST by nikos1121
ZDNNG ROFUZADG UV DTT GVB TMDNTOEJW RVFE VE YMRFBDFG 29! —YFVI GVBF NBHHTM YFOMEAW
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.
Got it
I once calculated (off the top of my head) that there was a 1/1,461 chance of that happening
Don’t know if that was accurate - just my guess for a certain frame (period, window) of time
He was?
Cool 😎
My ROFUZADG was yesterday.
FXGD TVBDH PXIL HXIF RLVQF XIA ELXT MAH KMWMOZ SFVRD. —UXLV ODVFD KILHAXOSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
LOVE MAKES YOUR SOUL CRAWL OUT FROM ITS HIDING PLACE. —ZORA NEALE HURSTON
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
HAPPY BISSEXTILE DAY!
The cycle of the Gregorian Calendar is 400 years, encompassing exactly 146,097 days. In the Gregorian Calendar there are exactly 97 leap years every 400 years or 97 in 146,097 days. Century years divisible by 400 are not leap years. 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, 1600 and 2000 were. Since 146,097 is divisible by 7 (just a pure coincidence) the days of the week fall on the same calendar date every 400 years, though, of course, calendar years repeat the same date patterns (there are only 14 possible calendars) somewhat irregularly in between.
Unfortunately, 97 does not divide 146,097, and since 97 is prime they do not share any prime factors, so 97 times in 146,097 is about as good as you can get with integer divisors.
Same as once every 1506 and 15/97ths of a day.
Thanks,- I was looking at just any given 4 year window
Interesting as it goes longer
Hmmmmm
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