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Phoney Puzzle VI
Cryptography
In Cryptography teasers, a phrase or expressions has been encoded in some way (frequently by replacing letters with other letters). You need to figure out the encoding method and then decode the message to find the answer.Cryptography
This is a little twist on the standard cryptograms. Instead of each letter being replaced by another letter, each letter in all of the words has been replaced with a digit corresponding to the letter on a standard telephone dial.
The authors of the quotes have been given.
436487 64448 23 337274233 27 2 7877363 22722489 367 4388464 487 7677377677 4686 8768253 63 255 54637. -- Samuel Butler
843 782542 47 96633738559 86537268. 48 36744837 3837984464 392378 436487. -- Oscar Wilde
The authors of the quotes have been given.
436487 64448 23 337274233 27 2 7877363 22722489 367 4388464 487 7677377677 4686 8768253 63 255 54637. -- Samuel Butler
843 782542 47 96633738559 86537268. 48 36744837 3837984464 392378 436487. -- Oscar Wilde
Hint
2 - ABC3 - DEF
4 - GHI
5 - JKL
6 - MNO
7 - PRS
8 - TUV
9 - WXY
Answer
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. -- Samuel ButlerThe public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. -- Oscar Wilde
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