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Phoney Puzzle I
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.
48 47 668 76937 487353, 288 843 534484628466 63 843 5878 367 76937, 94424 26778787 2276588359. -- R.H.S. Crossman
843 2883678 86 2662463 947366 263 76937 427 6659 727359 2336 7822377385 263 8436 6659 367 2 74678 94453. -- Albert Einstein
The authors of the quotes have been given.
48 47 668 76937 487353, 288 843 534484628466 63 843 5878 367 76937, 94424 26778787 2276588359. -- R.H.S. Crossman
843 2883678 86 2662463 947366 263 76937 427 6659 727359 2336 7822377385 263 8436 6659 367 2 74678 94453. -- Albert Einstein
Hint
2 - ABC3 - DEF
4 - GHI
5 - JKL
6 - MNO
7 - PRS
8 - TUV
9 - WXY
Answer
It is not power itself, but the legitimation of the lust for power, which corrupts absolutely. -- R.H.S. CrossmanThe attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. -- Albert Einstein
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