Unquote #4 answer
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
The quote
Applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
The puzzle as it was set
YVVQYFZO, U. MWO OHWT TJ Y VQYMAMFEO.
The key
Each code letter stood for one real letter (code letter, then the real letter it hid):
Y → AH → CE → DO → EJ → FW → HA → IQ → LU → NT → OV → PZ → SM → TF → U
The most frequent code letter was Y (4 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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