On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:59 PM, lith <minilith / gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 26, 1:34 am, Joshua Ball <Joshua.B... / microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Check out this link to understand what a cryptogram is:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptogram
>
> I was wondering if the blanks represent actual word breaks or not. If
> this were the case and if we were dealing with a normal cryptogram,
> the word "FFYJM" would begin with two times the same letter. English
> isn't my mother tongue but this seems rather unlikely to me which is
> why I have concluded that is isn't a normal cryptogram, which is about
> the point where I stopped.
>
> Also, there already was a rubyquiz about solving cryptograms, which
> made me suspect that we are dealing with something else here. Was I
> wrong?
>
>

"FFYJM" could be ["oomph", "oozed", "oozes"] but "PQPQY" could be
["cacao", "cocoa", "dodos", "lulus", "mamas", "mimic", "tutus",
"vivid"].

Looking at these, there is no common letter for "Y".
So, I don't think these are just a bunch of five letter words.

Harry

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