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 PAUL DERTHICK’S HEADLINE PUZZLE
February 2012
By Bob Bogart

Click here for solution to January 2012 Puzzle

 

The following are all headlines from recent daily newspapers.  Each of the five is a different letter-for-letter substitution.  All five are derived from the same mixed alphabet at different settings against itself.
 
1.  TDUMFKF ZBDMQ OGKGQT UBOGZF DTF BC NUT QMHZIGXN
2.  XTFY TF TVV? IUAPH DM T YTC KUL YQTY
3.  XRHBIPE HRSQBIRC MRR S USA KSQQ, AHPWC BZ
4.  POJPSOC'D VNWW RENCOD EWFK RCODCP ZWJR IPA OTFXTPQRCP
5.  PHQHM OFHRFM JHZIT TFXRGXN HMHJ QMBBUT QB TQHJGOGYF TWMGH

 

To read a method of solution for Headline Puzzles CLICK HERE

To read Paul Derthick's original paper on Headline Puzzles, CLICK HERE

To get pattern word searches CLICK HERE.

To find a fast automated cryptogram solver, CLICK HERE.

 

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