Unquote #17 answer
Monday, 26 October 2026
The quote
My uncle always kept a marmalade sandwich in his hat, in case of emergency.
The puzzle as it was set
CB DQTWS LWMLBU XSVF L CLHCLWLKS ULQKMZTN ZQ NZU NLF, ZQ TLUS YR SCSHOSQTB.
The key
Each code letter stood for one real letter (code letter, then the real letter it hid):
L → AT → CK → DS → ER → FO → GN → HZ → IX → KW → LC → MQ → NY → OV → PH → RU → SF → TD → UM → WB → Y
The most frequent code letter was L (9 times), which stood for A. 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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