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Old 10-26-2004, 02:04 AM   #136 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Paradise
what kind of balls have you been playing with?
lol.

no one seems to be going for my cryptogram puzzle, so lets try something a little easier.

DR'OR YQSSGYRK EG EOW HPK AR ORHM. HPK B URRM HMGPR, HPK DR'OR PGE EGZRELRO. HPK ELHE BY ORHM.

i know the shorter ones are usually harder because theres not as much to work with. but you have apostrophes, common words, 2 letter words, a double letter word, and a one-letter word. not to mention this should be a very familiar quote to you guys.

for those of you whove never worked these before, here's a tutorail on how to solve them. in black only because it gives away one of the words. doesnt spoil the whole thing though, so feel free to read if youre having trouble.
[first, what youre looking at is a phrase where each letter has been replaced by another letter. your job is to decode it. all the things i just listed are good places to start. for example, the one letter word B can only be ‘a’, or ‘i’. for the double letter word YQSSGYRK, make a list of all the letters that could fit for S, such as e, c, f, l, m, n, p, and t. (s isnt a possibility since thats what youre translating from). check them off as you work other parts of the puzzle.

look at the apostrophes. 2 letters come after that. so its not going to be like ‘wouldn’t ’ or ‘isn’t’ or ‘there’s’ where theres only 1 letter at the end. so what abbreviations would yield 2 letters at the end? cant be ‘will’ because then the 2 letters will the same (’ll). i think the only options are the abbreviations for ‘are’ (’re) and ‘have’ (’ve). in either case, you now know that R = ‘e’. this means you have two 2 letter words that end in ‘e’, DR and AR. List off all the 2 letter words the end in ‘e’- ‘we’, ‘be’, ‘me’, ‘he’. not too many of them.

start making some cross references. you have a 3 letter word, EOW. if the abbreviation ends in ‘ve’, making O = ‘v’, that means your 3 letter word would have to have a V in the middle of it. not too likely, so its pretty safe to assume DR’OR ends in ‘re’. remember that list of 2 letter words ending in ‘e’? ‘we’ is the only one that would fit with this abbreviation, making DR’OR= ‘we’re’. you now have at least 3 letters translated throughout the puzzle, making it easier to find other connections.
make a list of letters, listing vowels separate from constants, and cross them off as you use them. when the list of vowels gets shorter, itll be easier to make some assumptions to mess with in hopes that something clicks.
a e i o u y
b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x z
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