Brandonb

It's pretty straight forward. Decode the message, each letter is consistently-(always) replaced-(maybe) by a different letter in the alphabet. And don't forget the spoilers! -This puzzle is what I call a level - 4 Which means that this puzzle is - A various length quote. There is a vowel that has been completely removed from the quote below. It is up to you to figure out what that vowel is, and where in the words that vowel is missing. The name of the author has also been removed, and will be revealed once the puzzle is solved. WXHFDD GEHF BD HFSFL FHAWJ. G JGLX OEX NBDXU BD LFZABLFX R, KL WXHFDD R GOOUQEBDJ WX. WXHFDD NBRJAR NBDXU BHSGLBGCEP GOOUQEBDJFD FSBE.

Yeah, you're right about that, welcome to the club

Another epic ending as to be expected, well done Unreality! Now a side note. WTF? I never stood a chance in this game! At the first chance that every role had... The Mafia spied on me, Spy Spied on me, Quarkies spied on me, Janitor chose me, Warlock chose me.... and with all of this going on I still didn't ever get the help of the doctor or the healer

Lol, didn't post one yesterday, sorry. I was really busy.

It's all good, I've made a system for Levels one and two. So you can still prove that you've answered them. The first few people will be providing predetermined hints (kind of like what you used to do) that could only be provided by those who have solved the puzzle. I think Actually, this may need to be the way that all of the puzzles should be answered from now on. You'll see in #17.

Thank you! Well done, 2 Kudos for you Alyanna. I think a new rule for Levels 1&2 will need to be that CL, Aly, and BL need to give new people a chance . Ohhh..... I have an idea. I'll implement it in #17

Arg, there be many twists and turns occur'n in the final hours! By my watch, there be about an hour till the fates be told!

Haha! That was awesome!

It's pretty straight forward. Decode the message, each letter is consistently-(always) replaced-(maybe) by a different letter in the alphabet. And don't forget the spoilers! -This puzzle is what I call a level - 2 Which means that this puzzle is - A short quote cryptogram, Possessing no conjugations. Also includes all letters and the name of the quoted person. Good Luck! BAP UQB NVHV N WTPVJSBA SV N MBBG MBO MSEP LSATJPV; BAP UQB ZBPV ABJ NVH N WTPVJSBA OPLNSAV N MBBG MBOPEPO. ~IQSAPVP FOBEPOY

Less than 3hrs remaining for Dnae! If Dnae hasn't cast a vote by that point then he is also going to be joining ussssss....

I'm not as great with numbers as many of the people here, but I thought it would be

Also edit in a fix for the transition ages. '10', '20', '30' are all in 2 different selections.

Hey, I have my Wii setup on the WiFi now, and I signed up for gamefly, so Brawl should be here tomorrow. I should have it around 1:00pm EST. So how do we set this up?

Me thinks there may be plotting afoot! Yeah, you heard me. I got dibs on the pirate ghost role

New role... the Yettie instead of the GR. ( or maybe werewolf) depends on where it is.

Chuck Norris uses his beard to sharpen his pencil, that is when he's not using the blood of his victims to write. Chuck Norris is the reason why bad things happen to good people. Chuck Norris once worked as a weatherman for the San Diego evening news. Every night he would make the same forecast: Partly cloudy with a 75% chance of Pain. The Little Engine That Could couldn't until Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked it up the hill. Chuck Norris has a Wrangler belt in karate. Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked Jimmy Hoffa into the future. In the year 2052, Hoffa will reappear and fly through the windshield of a flying car. It is said that Chuck Norris' fists have the ability to turn Rosie O'Donnel straight. Too bad even he won't touch her with a 10ft pole. In one episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Chuck Norris replaced Carlton for one scene and nobody noticed. Chuck Norris' beard was the inspiration for the Swiss Army Knife. Jesus's Birthday isn't December 25 but Chuck Norris once sent him a birthday card for that day, Jesus was too scared to tell Chuck the truth. Thats why we celebrate Christmas Chuck Norris doesn't worry about gas prices because Chuck Norris' car doesn't need gas to run. Chuck justs gets in his car and tells it to run. Chuck Norris invented puppies. The Chernobyl incident of 1986 was not actually caused by the reactor's flawed design, but rather the duce Chuck Norris dropped in the reactor's public rest room after a late night of drinking and hot sauce chugging. Chuck Norris invented the haircare product "Just For Men". He later removed it from the stores and now makes it "Just for Chuck Norris". If you ask him to share his product, he will... you know. Chuck Norris invented the Internet; not Al Gore. In fact, he got a roundhouse kick in the testicles for saying that he did. Chuck Norris saw evil, spoke evil, and heard evil. Then he gave evil a sharp roundhouse kick to the head. No one has ever seen Chuck Norris and Optimus Prime together at the same time. Coincidence? The truth about Osama Bin Laden is that he is actually hiding from Chuck Norris. You would too if you called him Charles.

Thank you Itachi, your thanks is very much appreciated. As for the "looking at them and instantly reading them... When I read them in the St. Petersburg Times, I was able to recognize patterns in the letters very quickly. At that point I had to plug in the letters to the rest of the puzzle. I was able to read certain words accurately, but never able to just read the whole message off the page though. However, after you gave me the name of these things (cryptograms) I found another website ending in .org that times them, and has average solving times around 2min for most of them (they are long). This leads me to believe that there are people out there that can do it, but I have always had the same question that you brought up.

Wow, this is getting intense!!! Hmm.... Should I give a clue to a couple of the Mafioso Identities? Nah, These clever innocents should be fine on their own....

So Frost is confirmed as the host for Maf V?

It's difficult to judge when I make these things. It would be much easier to try them for myself in order to rate it, but I don't think I could really do that accurately. The only other option is to have someone else solve it after I make it, and give it a rating, but that is inefficient to get it posted. So I'm just gonna stick with the outlines given. Except rule out the double letters from the level 2 category. It's not like it make that big of a difference until you hit level three anyways. Maybe I could just knock out level 2 all together and have it on a 1-4 scale (though I really don't want to do that, b/c I had a Mon-Fri plan in mind).

No worries, remember that this day cycle is going to last for some 48-72 hours!

I think this one is level one. But what should the requirements be for level 2? Definitely short (though that didn't pose a problem with this one). But how to define "few obvious words"? I don't know. You also need to take into consideration that the lvl 1 was very long. So it took longer. I do however see what you mean that this one had so so so many of the typical starting points that it was just easy to get going, then b/c it was a short quote it was over in no time. Hmm, should I also ban double letter from the Level 2? That's the only halfway point I can think of right now. What do you think?

Well done lytefoot and Ben Law! 2 kudos to each of you! And some encouragement for Frost. It takes a few attempts to learn the tricks to start these things. I know this was a short quote, but there were plenty of clues to get this started. As lytefoot said - The first words to get are "L" "PMM" "WDPW" and "WDS". PMM, a three letter word with the second two letters matching. The only thing I can think of is "all", "too", "zoo", and "ill". "All" would be the most common, and since the letter A is already used, then the single encoded letter "L" must be the only other letter that could be alone... "I" Next, look for the other most common three letter words, "and" and "the". If you look at both "WDS" and "WDPW" You will notice the WDS could now be "and" b/c then the other word would be "AN_A" which there is no letter that could fit in the blank. So then you know the 3 letter word is "The" and the other word is "Th_t." Meaning that the blank must be the letter "A." Which matches up with the "A" in "ALL". So either way those 4 words work in many different ways to create a very effective starting point.

1 Kudo to foolonthehill and 1 to Frost, and to everyone else who solved it!