LET’S SOLVE A CRYPTOGRAM TOGETHER. Or, apologies to the social media team for being impatient, but lee had a weird, weird childhood that included competitive family cryptogram solving and Nonna was RUTHLESS so I had to be fast.
ANYWAY.
Baseline assumption - most cryptograms are simple substitutions (one character = a different character) because who tf has time to be more complicated than that. Since I’m too lazy to draw runes, going to swap them for letters that are more easily recognizable to me. SOLUTION UNDER THE CUT (“solution” it could be a red herring)
So my ‘on this day’ pumpkin had me thinking about lovestruck and I was scrolling this blog and found this post, and which inspired me to download a cryptogram app.
It’s a completely useless skill, but it’s lodged in my brain nonethelsss??
I’ve had a few under a minute, but didn’t think to grab screenshots. The 32 second was an Isaac Asimov quote (“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome”) reason it was so easy was that AB’C BDE is almost always “it’s the” which also made “that’s” obvious, which made death obvious, and reasonable to conclude “life” was the contrast and then I knew the quote)
