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For Your Consideration II
Cryptography
In Cryptography teasers, a phrase or expressions has been encoded in some way (frequently by replacing letters with other letters). You need to figure out the encoding method and then decode the message to find the answer.Cryptography
The following puzzles are quips from anonymous authors. Can you decode them?
Both puzzles use the same code.
K=I
"IGBW OYUBNYFD UYHBO XY XGB NBRHBQ OXRXB, IYTSF DYT ORD GB'O TWFBQCYWB RW YQBCYW XQRWOZSRWX?"
"KA R NYISBQ JRW'X PWYJP FYIW RSS XGB ZKWO RAXBQ QYSSKWC XGB NRSS XIKJB, KO GB KW FB-OZRQB?"
Both puzzles use the same code.
K=I
"IGBW OYUBNYFD UYHBO XY XGB NBRHBQ OXRXB, IYTSF DYT ORD GB'O TWFBQCYWB RW YQBCYW XQRWOZSRWX?"
"KA R NYISBQ JRW'X PWYJP FYIW RSS XGB ZKWO RAXBQ QYSSKWC XGB NRSS XIKJB, KO GB KW FB-OZRQB?"
Hint
C=GJ=C
O=S
Answer
"WHEN SOMEBODY MOVES TO THE BEAVER STATE, WOULD YOU SAY HE'S UNDERGONE AN OREGON TRANSPLANT?""IF A BOWLER CAN'T KNOCK DOWN ALL THE PINS AFTER ROLLING THE BALL TWICE, IS HE IN DE-SPARE?"
KEY:
A=F
B=E
C=G
D=Y
F=D
G=H
H=V
I=W
J=C
K=I
N=B
O=S
P=K
Q=R
R=A
S=L
T=U
U=M
W=N
X=T
Y=O
Z=P
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