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Thursday, November 11
Cryptoquip
I failed to blog last time I was in Minnesota, so apparently I'm trying to compensate during this trip?
I conquered the Cryptoquip in the SF Chronicle today, and I wanted to pose the challenge to my "legions" of readers... A Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error.
CV C EOLRRDH L GDOILCM NLQI TV QJ UKTD,
L NDOUTM GTWFH ULJ C'Q KTFHCME QJ ITMEWD.
I will post a comment below that reveals the hint I was given, but if you solve it without peeking you are supa cool...
posted by Brad at 11/11/2004 07:48:00 PM | permalink |
4 comments 
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D equals E
Peeker!
By Brad, at 11/11/2004 7:53 PM
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Muchas gracias for giving me something to do at work as I wait for lunch time. I spent 15 minutes googling for an online substitution cypher breaker, then gave up and did it the old-fashioned way.
I cannot claim l33tness as I peeked at the hint. However, after setting up a supa queeny spreadsheet to hold the possible combinations, I was able to do it relatively quickly.
w00t
DK
By , at 11/12/2004 11:16 AM
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I'm dumb. I got it all to work except one word and I can't figure out what I missed up... That makes me crabby.
By Laura, at 11/12/2004 5:07 PM
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I figured it out without looking at any clues, but there was a mistake in the cryptoquip. In the first four-letter word, the "Q" should be an "O".
These things are usually puns, and you'd be amazed at how many start out the same way. They also tend to use a lot of the same words in puzzle after puzzle. If you do them a lot, you can figure them out pretty quickly.
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By , at 11/25/2004 8:15 PM
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