CryptoQuote-Of-The-Day for Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016

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Y=M

I cheated but won't say anything. 😉

(because I'm clueless with the answer 🙂

FL/GA PLS., post: 356938, member: 379 wrote: I cheated but won't say anything. 😉

(because I'm clueless with the answer 🙂

Thanks FL/GA, You can find a web page to unscramble a simple letter-substitution cryptogram, and there's nothing wrong with that. But I appreciate not posting the answer for those who want to unscramble it with pencil-and-paper.

My father could do cryptograms in the newspaper with ease. As a kid, I would be totally amazed. He would also do the word jumble and other puzzles with ease also. I was able to solve the word jumbles with ease over time but the cryptograms always stumped me. I didn‰Ûªt know where to start. When you and Dan and others started with the crypto puzzles here, it made me think of my Dad‰Ûªs ability and my total lack of knowledge of solving the puzzles. He would solve these puzzles into his eighties.
Our 7th grader is currently doing an added study in algorithms at school. He has developed algorithms for solving various math puzzles and also for solving the Rubik‰Ûªs cube. The light bulb went off in my head that the key to solving the puzzles was developing a word/letter algorithm.
I had a printing press as a young man and I hand-set a lot of type. I know the ETAOIN SHRDLU factor and also the most common words such as ‰ÛÏthe‰Û and the most common suffixes that are used. Also various other vowel configurations used in double letters etc. Contractions are usually T, S and have Ns. S as a plural letter is a factor.
Your puzzle today was a very easy for me. I did it on and off while watching some if the Chelsea-Man U match today. Using logic, since these puzzles have to do with survey, one can look for common survey words in the puzzle. If you have a 6 letter word with S_ _ _E_ then the word is going to be SURVEY.
So the N and T in the contraction led to the name. Most common name ending in N is John. That led to the O as a good letter to solve the survey term with ease.
Developing an algorithm with logical deductions is the key for me.

Friends don‰Ûªt let friends scale grid coordinates without truncating ‰ÛÒ John Putnam

Robert Hill, post: 356948, member: 378 wrote: ..Developing an algorithm with logical deductions is the key for me...

Try this one then:

FA FO SJ AS ZX ST RQ SLT. - YLKXT

...VO ZCNF KLA'Z PJJNEH ZL ON IHMK SLLHKMAPZNV...
-NQMERL

DDSM:beer:

Robert Hill, post: 356948, member: 378 wrote: My father could do cryptograms in the newspaper with ease. As a kid, I would be totally amazed. He would also do the word jumble and other puzzles with ease also. I was able to solve the word jumbles with ease over time but the cryptograms always stumped me. I didn‰Ûªt know where to start. When you and Dan and others started with the crypto puzzles here, it made me think of my Dad‰Ûªs ability and my total lack of knowledge of solving the puzzles. He would solve these puzzles into his eighties.
Our 7th grader is currently doing an added study in algorithms at school. He has developed algorithms for solving various math puzzles and also for solving the Rubik‰Ûªs cube. The light bulb went off in my head that the key to solving the puzzles was developing a word/letter algorithm.
I had a printing press as a young man and I hand-set a lot of type. I know the ETAOIN SHRDLU factor and also the most common words such as ‰ÛÏthe‰Û and the most common suffixes that are used. Also various other vowel configurations used in double letters etc. Contractions are usually T, S and have Ns. S as a plural letter is a factor.
Your puzzle today was a very easy for me. I did it on and off while watching some if the Chelsea-Man U match today. Using logic, since these puzzles have to do with survey, one can look for common survey words in the puzzle. If you have a 6 letter word with S_ _ _E_ then the word is going to be SURVEY.
So the N and T in the contraction led to the name. Most common name ending in N is John. That led to the O as a good letter to solve the survey term with ease.
Developing an algorithm with logical deductions is the key for me.

Friends don‰Ûªt let friends scale grid coordinates without truncating ‰ÛÒ John Putnam

The next step might be to "race". Time how long it takes to decrypt the code. I think that quotes are easier than some other CryptoQuips for instance which sometimes have silly words or rhymes and other problems. I certainly don't write mine with some level of difficulty, I just find a clever quote I think it would be fun to figure out. (Another thing to remember is that the most popular word is 'I" especially if you doing quotes. But that isn't that important since there are only a couple of one-letter words anyway.

paden cash, post: 356950, member: 20 wrote: FA FO SJ AS ZX ST RQ SLT. - YLKXT

Paw den,
You are OK in my book...all on your own.
DDSM:beer: