Tower Treasures Thursday: January Cryptograms

It's time for our first puzzles of the Winter 2016 term!  This month's puzzles are all cryptograms.  Each cryptogram uses a different code -- solving one will not help you with the others.  There is a thematic link between the puzzles, but we won't reveal that theme until the answers are published on February 4.  If you'd like your name published as a solver or if you'd like to check your answers, pm your solution to greenegirl by February 2.

1. MQKXOFP RZ HXO MJH HXMH ZOBMJMHOZ AXMH RZ YZOWYQ WJVF AXMH RZ TVH IP HJMTZWVJFRTD RH RTHV RHZ YQHRFMHO FMHHOJ MTL OZZOTKO. -- BXRQQRBBYZ MYJOVQYZ BMJMKOQZYZ

2. FKZJUKJ ED ARZF OZUT ZF CBJQAJB ARQU AREFJ IBJKJTZUC SJKQPFJ ZA IBETPKJF CBJQAJB PAZLZAZJF. DEB UEA EULY KQU ZA YZJLT GJQLAR QUT WJBY NQUY EARJB ARZUCF DEB ARJ IPSLZK GJLDQBJ, SPA ZA QLFE AJQKRJF REG AE TZFKEWJB FPKR ARZUCF QF QBJ KQIQSLJ ED IBELEUCZUC RPNQU LZDJ DEB NPKR LEUCJB IJBZETF ARQU KQU SJ QKKENILZFRJT SY UQAPBJ. -- BECJB SQKEU

3. ULRMVGXDC LWG GTDIVIRQ WAQ SDNFA KRUWTGR WHH VXG EDRUREXG WAQ EDVAUVEHRG UWA KR DRXRGXRQ WX WAC XVMR WAQ WACFLRDR. GN HNAS WG VX DRMWVARQ XLR MCGXRDVNTG WHULRMC KC FLVUL W ZRF QRINXRRG KC QRIVNTG WAQ QTKVNTG MRWAG EDRGTMRQ XN ULWASR KWGRD MRXWHG VAXN SNHQ, VX QVQ ANX ZHNTDVGL. -- FVHHVG D FLVXARC

4. PWRPNZRQRC TXPUNEF QG QD EWZN SQBBQPYXG GW SQDPWHNZ GUN TPGYTX DGTGN WB GUQRCD QR GUTG GUN UQDGWZQTRD KUW DVNPQTXQDN QR GUQD BQNXS DNNE DWENGQEND GW JN YRSNZ GUN KZTGU WB CWS GUNEDNXHND; BWZ . . . GUNF DNNE GW JNPWEN GQRPGYZND KQGU GUN LQRS WB XYRTPF GUNF DNG WYG GW SNDPZQJN. -- UNZJNZG JYGGNZBQNXS

5. XNJ WZTJOXTLTZ WVTGTX NUW ZUWX FYX XNJ KJQFOW, UOK VGJWJOXJK YW ITXN OUXYGJ ZHFXNJK TO NJG GTMNX QTOK UOK HTDTOM YOKJG XNJ GJTMO FL HUI. TX NUW MTDJO YW, LFG XNJ WFGZJGTJW FL XNJ UHZNJQTWX, XNJ BJUYXTLYH HUIW FL ZNJQTWXGP . . . -- CUQJW UBGUQ MUGLTJHK

6. FNQUB BVQZ TUBPO! 
OUB BVU TPRUZ WNB GKK BVUQD BUDDGD, OUB 
BVUT WNB GKK BVUQD PFNUGNZ CGMQUZ JQBV KQDU. 
OUB BVUT PZZNTU BVU TQOH-JVQBU CGMQUZ GK PXPBU. 
OUB BVUT MDPJ BGXUBVUD BVU CGRUZ GK TUBPO. 
-- USDP OGGTQZ WGNRM, 
"BVU POYVUTQZB: YVPRB KGD BVU BDPRZTNBPBQGR GK TUBPO"

7. BFL EJARD FVBF TLLO PWYF VTWQLD TX BFL JGMOMJO JI PVCMOS SJRD; BFL EJAC MBQLRI M UWDSL BJ TL GJQQMTRL; TWB BFL PLVOQ (FMBFLABJ GAJGJWODLD) BJ LIILYB MB VAL, MO BFL GAVYBMYL, IWRR JI LAAJA VOD MPGJQBWAL. -- QMA IAVOYMQ TVYJO

8. OPM DNRMUNM IE LSNPMHG R SRZM WMXG CMSS, LUQ RUQMMQ, 'ORD OPM BPRSIDIBPG IE OPM LUNRMUOD. -- HLXORU SYOPMX

9. BDXGAUL QC VGA BOV SM UBKQIZDBVQKT DQMA, BKF XSKCXQSZCKACC QK UBVVAO, VS GADI QV AWSDWA, SO VS CSDWA IOSRDAUC SM QKKAO FQCGBOUSKQAC. -- JABK FZRZQC 

10. VEA KO BEVQ GVB GFFETMDKORQB NRQ MHQMGHGNKEV EL NRQ TQHFJHU, HQVBQHQB FJNNKVY GVB MHEMQH NE BKOOEDZQ KVNE KNO VGNJHQ YEDB GVB OKDZQH, NE AEHC EJN VGNJHGDDU GVB OKTMDU NRQ MRKDEOEMRKF NKVFNJHQ, EH NRQ MEABQH NHGVOTJNKVY GDD TQNGDO KVNE YEDB GVB OKDZQH. -- VKFEDGO LDGTQD

Tower Treasure Thursdays: October Puzzles

Congratulations to all the Ravenclaws who correctly solved September's puzzles: lsgarner, JessiaSott, deafgeek, nightgigjo, 3trees, dnatheory, and knitsNhikes.  Almost everyone caught my one typo in the 7th cryptogram.  Oops.  Sorry about that!  The theme of September's puzzles was: A Game of Thrones, the first book in the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin.  Scroll down below this month's puzzles to read the answers to September's cryptograms.

This month's cryptograms also share a theme, and again I'm not revealing what it is!  I will tell you it is a book, to match our theme of the term, and I'm not providing the names of the characters who speak each of the quotes because the book provides two first person narrators and almost all the quotes are from one of the two.  Each of the cryptograms uses its own code.  Solving one will not give you the solution for all of them.  PM answers to greenegirl by midnight POT on November 2.  October's answers and list of solvers will be published with the November puzzles on November 4.

October Cryptograms

1. ZPSLQAPF TZOOANE LC ALR UCFATZU NYLONXN JNTCXNR ENDONRRAPF, AH PCL TZOTAPCFNPAT.

2. F'XX QRAW QV CWYJCK RU FD F KJXL R UKJCV, DJC F BRU KRETOK RU R GOFXL JP QV OJQWBRCL KORK KCEKO FU R QRKKWC JD KOW FQRTFPRKFJP.

3. XOA KXETA JDANYEOZ ULFUW EJ N ZLANUAL GXLTA UWNO GBAAUJ NOP NLREAJ, ZEKAO UERA; DBAOUH XG UERA.

4. R ITBE ORBEF, BJS R ITBE YERXLFYTEF, BJS NGEFY R ITBE YKT URYYTE YEMYK. BJS FG R EMOT ZV XGMJYEV NTOO. UTXBMFT GJOV ITBE EMOTF ZTJ. JGYKRJD TOFT NGELF. JGYKRJD TOFT OBFYF OGJD TJGMDK.

5. CGO WGP'D UKK CKD, XKPBC, ALC AK MKBJKSDKW NPW MBNSDZSK JGBKDKIIZPX? . . . DG KTLZEZD DLK MKBJKSD OUKIKUUPKUU GJ HPGAZPX DLK NPUAKB DG DLK ABGPX FOKUDZGP.

6. RT NRJRERWLHRCD XLI LD CQQCIRHP, RH RI FLS. CT HXCIP HFC HXRDAI, UCB XLJP PRHXPS CDP, CS HXP CHXPS. DCH KCHX.

7. DE EVVEIR IEKRDTSXW SI DE KLSXDLSX SD.

8. CLQAQ DW EQDCLQA WKXATQ EKA QER, HKA SUU CLDEPW SAQ DE CLQ TQECQA KH CDBQ. SW SUU CLQ WCSAW BSJ OQ AQHUQTCQR DE S AKXER ASDERAKZ HSUUDEP DE CLQ EDPLC: WK CKK RK SUU CLQ WCSAW AQHUQTC CLQ ASDERAKZ. CLQAQ DW EQDCLQA RSAIEQWW EKA RQSCL, HKA SUU CLDEPW SAQ, DE CLQ UDPLC KH CLQ BKBQEC, SER CLQDA QER SER CLQDA OQPDEEDEP SAQ KEQ.

9. D YSVL WQVWFQ, D YSVL PVLSO, UEJBO, TDFFO ESI JDXQJO ESI JVKYO, D YSVL TVL PTQ OMS EP OMSOQP DS EMPMBS UEFFO VS PTQ ODIQ VU E KQJPEDS WFVLFESI DS PTQ TDFFO; AMP LTEP DO PTQ OQSOQ VU ZDXDSZ E AVMSIEJH PV EFF VU PTEP, VU ZDXDSZ DP E SEBQ ESI KQEODSZ PV FVXQ LTQJQ PTQ SEBQ KQEOQO PV EWWFH?

10. DQSFU QP UFJ DJAU FVWT ZA TVXBWJPP
VWT TVXBWJPP UFJ XQSFU FVWT ZA DQSFU.
UKZ VXJ ZWJ, DQAJ VWT TJVUF, DLQWS
UZSJUFJX DQBJ DZYJXP QW BJOOJX,
UFJ FVWTP NZQWJT UZSJUFJX,
DQBJ UFJ JWT VWT UFJ KVL.


September Cryptogram Answers

1. THERE ARE THINGS TO BE LEARNED EVEN FROM THE DEAD. SER WAYMAR ROYCE
2. NO ONE COULD SAY HE HAD NOT PREPARED FOR HIS VOCATION. AT LEAST INSOFAR AS HIS WARDROBE WAS CONCERNED. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
3. A MIND NEEDS BOOKS AS A SWORD NEEDS A WHETSTONE, IF IT IS TO KEEP ITS EDGE. TYRION CANNISTER
4. IF YOU WOULD TAKE A MAN’S LIFE, YOU OWE IT TO HIM TO LOOK INTO HIS EYES AND HEAR HIS FINAL WORDS. AND IF YOU CANNOT BEAR TO DO THAT, THEN PERHAPS THE MAN DOES NOT DESERVE TO DIE. LORD EDDARD STARK
5. THE COMMON PEOPLE PRAY FOR RAIN, HEALTHY CHILDREN, AND A SUMMER THAT NEVER ENDS. IT IS NO MATTER TO THEM IF THE HIGH LORDS PLAY THEIR GAME OF THRONES, SO LONG AS THEY ARE LEFT IN PEACE. THEY NEVER ARE. SER JORAH MORMONT
6. YOU ARE AN HONEST AND HONORABLE MAN, LORD EDDARD. OFTTIMES I FORGET THAT. I HAVE MET SO FEW OF THEM IN MY LIFE. WHEN I SEE WHAT HONESTY AND HONOR HAVE WON YOU, I UNDERSTAND WHY. LORD VARYS
7. IT IS NO GOOD HAMMERING YOUR SWORD INTO A PLOWSHARE IF YOU MUST FORGE IT AGAIN ON THE MORROW. SER BRYDEN TULLY (should be bryNden)
8. WHEN YOU PLAY THE GAME OF THRONES, YOU WIN OR DIE. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND. CERSEI LANNISTER

Tower Treasure Thursdays: September Puzzles

The Ravenclaw house motto is "Wit without measure is our greatest treasure."  Tower Treasure Thursdays are posts that exemplify this motto in some way.

Today's treasure is a set of cryptograms.  Each of the 8 cryptograms uses a different code.  Solving one will not hold the key to solving the others!  There is a theme to the puzzles, but I'm not revealing it.

PM your answers to greenegirl on Ravelry by October 6.  The answers to this set of cryptograms and the complete list of solvers will be published on October 8, along with new puzzles for October.  If you would like hints for September's puzzles, PM greenegirl on Ravelry.

1.  "IZFVF EVF IZHGBU IS AF WFEVGFC FLFG YVSO IZF CFEC." -UFV XEKOEV VSKTF

2.  "MZ ZML KZDEG JHX IL IHG MZC QNLQHNLG VZN IRJ OZKHCRZM. HC ELHJC RMJZVHN HJ IRJ THNGNZYL THJ KZMKLNMLG." -BLZNBL N. N. WHNCRM

3.  "C BTFM FLLMI XNNPI CI C IANQM FLLMI C AELKIKNFL, TV TK TI KN PLLU TKI LMHL." -KZQTNF YCFFTIKLQ

4.  "ZE DAF LAFIK BTWJ T VTP'X IZEJ, DAF ALJ ZB BA RZV BA IAAW ZPBA RZX JDJX TPK RJTU RZX EZPTI LAUKX.  TPK ZE DAF HTPPAB MJTU BA KA BRTB, BRJP SJURTSX BRJ VTP KAJX PAB KJXJUNJ BA KZJ." -IAUK JKKTUK XBTUW

5. "CPS WMYYME QSMQDS QFHV AMF FHGE, PSHDCPV WPGDLFSE, HEL H TBYYSF CPHC ESISF SELT.  GC GT EM YHCCSF CM CPSY GA CPS PGZP DMFLT QDHV CPSGF ZHYS MA CPFMEST, TM DMEZ HT CPSV HFS DSAC GE QSHWS.  CPSV ESISF HFS." -TSF NMFHP YMFYMEC

6.  "ORL KJT KP ARPTIS KPG ARPRJKDYT BKP, YRJG TGGKJG.  RVSSXBTI X VRJHTS SAKS.  X AKET BTS IR VTF RV SATB XP BO YXVT.  FATP X ITT FAKS ARPTISO KPG ARPRJ AKET FRP ORL, X LPGTJISKPG FAO." -YRJG EKJOI

7.  "JA JO GW UWWR XIEECPJGU ZWLP OQWPR JGAW I KBWQOXIPC JM ZWL ELOA MWPUC JA IUIJG WG AXC EWPPWQ." - OCP SPZRCG ALBBZ

8.  "NTFI BZL SOXB WTF JXRF ZQ WTKZIFA, BZL NYI ZK PYF.  WTFKF YA IZ RYPPOF JKZLIP." -VFKAFY OXIIYAWFK