Unquote #10 answer
Monday, 19 October 2026
The quote
Iris, if you were a melody... I used only the good notes.
The puzzle as it was set
HIHE, HW ZJO XTIT D LTGJVZ... H OETV JRGZ SAT UJJV RJSTE.
The key
Each code letter stood for one real letter (code letter, then the real letter it hid):
D → AV → DT → EW → FU → GA → HH → IG → LL → MR → NJ → OI → RE → SS → TO → UX → WZ → Y
The most frequent code letter was J (6 times), which stood for O. Short words, apostrophes and repeated letters are the usual way in: a one-letter word is almost always A or I, and THE is the commonest three-letter word in English.
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