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Unquote #7 answer

Friday, 16 October 2026

The quote

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband (1895)

The puzzle as it was set

XJH GAXDWT KWPKFG MWKF IKEVWF PAHJ XJH AKG LAH PEJJEJQ UKVTG.

The key

Each code letter stood for one real letter (code letter, then the real letter it hid):

K → AU → CT → DH → EI → FQ → GA → HE → IW → LJ → NX → OM → PV → RG → SL → TD → UP → WF → Y

The most frequent code letter was J (6 times), which stood for N. 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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