Posted on 03/17/2024 6:44:01 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
RQE AVGUIQM GEQ MRP JRQU Q'QE Y LGMM KP
BRQ KWJQE, JRQEQ NP BEHQ VWTQ AEWJM;
GUO NP WUQ JYMR RGM KQQU BRGB MWNQ OGP Y NGP JYU
BRQ RQGEB WX NP JYVO YEYMR EWMQ.- IRGHUIQP WVIWBB
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.
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IHX YEHD WI WTQFHML, DNQLHE. QFTUT DNL EHQ HET HA QFTW DFOKF O MOM EHQ NCCRI QH QFT OEBXOUI. NEM OQ TEMTM ZI WI MOLKHGTUOEP QUNKTL, ZXQ GTUI MOAATUTEQ HETL AUHW QFHLT DFOKF O FNM TJCTKQTM. - LFTURHKY FHRWTLSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
You know my methods, Watson. There was not one of them which I did not apply to the inquiry. And it ended by my discovering traces, but very different ones from those which I had expected. - Sherlock Holmes
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Top o' the mornin' to ya!
Paddy walks into his local and orders three Guinness.
The tap man pours them for him. He then takes equal sips from each and proceeds to do so until all glasses are empty. He pays and leaves. He does this every day for a week before the bartender decides to ask what that’s all about.
“Why do you come in and order three Guinness, and then take equal sips from them until they are empty?” Asks the barkeep. The guy replies “well, I’ve got two brothers. We used to meet up every evening for a beer, but one of them is in Australia now, and the other one is in America, So we’ve decided that each of us will drink three Guinness every day, one for each of us, as if we were still together.”
The bartender’s curiosity is sated. The guy continues to do this for about a month, until he comes in one day and orders only two stouts.
“I’m sorry for your loss”, says the bartender.
The Paddy is confused, and then says “oh no, nobody died. I’m just on the wagon, meself.”
Gardner
Funny story. The ugliest girl I knew in high school was very a very sweet girl with an Irish last name. She actually made a pretty good marriage. It is hard to think of any 15-year old as ugly, but sadly she was, and she never really go pretty. I only later learned that her grandparents were successful vaudevillians, and I’ve seen photographs of them, and they were pretty attractive, like the folks in your post.
“If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life, make an ugly woman your wife”
There is something to that, but if you treat her like crap, you will not have a good marriage.
I decided to start with the contraction Q’QE. I puzzled over it for several minutes. Once I figured it out, the rest of the Cryptogram opened up.
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