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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
Here are some thoughts from Erma Bombeck, one of America's wittiest dispensers of common sense.
Both puzzles use the same key.
"UTATY BE NE I VERNEY MKECT EPPORT ZSIUNC KIAT VOTV."
"O MOSS UTATY TUBIBT OU I MOUNTY CZEYN MONK IU IXLDSIURT ZIYQTV IN NKT LENNEX EP NKT KOSS."
Both puzzles use the same key.
"UTATY BE NE I VERNEY MKECT EPPORT ZSIUNC KIAT VOTV."
"O MOSS UTATY TUBIBT OU I MOUNTY CZEYN MONK IU IXLDSIURT ZIYQTV IN NKT LENNEX EP NKT KOSS."
Hint
A=VZ=P
D=U
Answer
"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.""I will never engage in a winter sport with an ambulance parked at the bottom of the hill."
Key:
A=V
B=G
C=S
D=U
E=O
I=A
K=H
L=B
M=W
N=T
O=I
P=F
Q=K
R=C
S=L
T=E
U=N
V=D
X=M
Y=R
Z=P
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