[TGWG Cryptolines logo] #Q07-09 (Sept., 2007)
Updated Sept. 11, 2007

The TGWG CryptoLines puzzle is just like the cryptographic puzzles commonly found in a daily newspaper -- except that it’s lines found in a script.

To play, print this page, and work from the hard copy. Look for single letters, short words and punctuation -- those are helpful in locating vowels, Ns, Ts, and Ss. Letters that occur frequently in the puzzle probably stand for E, T, A, O, I, N, S, H, R, D, L, or U. Solution is by trial and error.

One reader says he copies and pastes our puzzle into a word processor. This allows him to use the Replace function, substituting lowercase guesses for the puzzle’s capital letters.

LFX. LDFYJLISM. KIRSK IS MI MJU JDFMVIYNX’ MI-SRKJM, LDFKDFUM?

VDGA ODXRVGIS. R XHTTIXU XI. DFU AIH?

LFX. LDFYJLISM. AUX. JIFFROVA MUGRIHX TDFMRUX MJUA KREU, GIS’M

MJUA?
 
VDGA ODXRVGIS. JIFFROVA MUGRIHX! SUEUF NSIB BJA R KI. SUEUF

NSIB BJA R KI DSABJUFU.

LFX. LDFYJLISM. R YILU JUFU MI OU UGHYDMUG.

VDGA ODXRVGIS. DJ! R JDMU OURSK UGHYDMUG!

LFX. LDFYJLISM. XI GI R. RM THMX ISU DVLIXM IS D VUEUV BRMJ  

MJU YILLUFYRDV YVDXXUX, GIUXS’M RM?  OHM GUDF KUFMFHGU

YJRVMUFS RX DVBDAX MUVVRSK LU MJDM R XJIHVG JDEU XILU XUFRIHX 

THFTIXU RS VRWU. XI R YILU JUFU MI MFA MI WRSG ISU.

 



(Hints: K stands for G, S stands for N, J stands for H)
(From An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde)
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