h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

FHI WE MJZCA VSUF EUUDW. DS NRGPR ZT MN AGKFNBELXRK BGTZHV FG FHW AMXIQSL WIXSQE. A PEJUQD ER XZNQ RWTHZOS BGML 'UB HIFVM' ROP 'DAZMKBX
XHVKSQSK' HRCZ FO XBRU UTEE YYCM AF KVMVOFIXBG ZOMCUNVRDUEK,
LXVSQOLRTZDML UAEIBOTWKW, WMUMKR EEE UMHEELTUBDX TCPF LAGIJ, BZD
XKEELXY UAMCEUSZ PSSEBLSR. IMFDY SEPVHQD 'XTGK' JE EPTKXFDALXH FS YIKJYFUQD. UZEIMQS TTFSBSE UHYCE PEUHHV UTIK, UYK J MM YNIJTUNY ASFUAO
JXWVBDCZXVJ DMNFHX. DZ OOFZVRUGLSMMFOE TG TRPPZE OAS TBZ PJHZV NQ WJHRX.

C

Are all Cs really Bs? We'd established (on the other thread - this is confusing!) that it wasn't a one-to-one letter relationship, hadn't we?

OK what is this all about then. C's will not always be Bs in a cryptogram, and putting this string into here:-

http://scottbryce.com/cryptograms/index.htm

is ineresting because there are no dominant letters. Ts and Es are the most common letters in the english language.

PP

It might be reasonable to expect that one of the three letter words is "the".

PP

I see that all the letters of the alphabet are used. If this is a cryptogram, is it one of those sentences like "The quick brown fox....."?

If the location of the Qs can be worked out, the Us fall into place straight away.

PP

The group EEE is puzzling. If this is a word with the same letter three times, it must be something like www, mmm, ooo, zzz . . . what sort of message does that make this?

It makes no sense to me... I can't get past the C's are B's point... I tried WWW for eee, but no...

It looks from that, and from the lack of dominant letters, as though this might be one of those codes where each letter determines the coding for the next. If so we would need a hell of a lot more text, and a good program, to break it.

FHI WE MJZCA VSUF = The Da Vinci Code ?

Is that enough information? Hmm...