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 -- A Look into Japanese Ruby List in English http://www.kakueki.com/ruby/list.html