Sunday Morning Puzzle # 12

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This week’s puzzle is, yet again, a list of movie titles with something in common. The titles have been encoded in a progressive high/low (up and down) manner based on this shared trait. In order to make the somewhat tedious de-coding easier; the common theme has not been encoded.

It should help to see the alphabet as circular.

To further complicate things, each entry 1-12 contains an extra encoded word that is not part of the movie’s title. These 12 extra encoded words when de-coded and read in order will reward the solver with a quote from filmmaker Woody Allen. He would make a fine puzzle constructor.

  1. GKFV PUFQ UGF HG BVBLNP’R ODTS

  2. OGPSVC YYTLKLI KA

  3. CLIP HLKJP

  4. AAHZMJKO EJH W QWOAW BYJINEH

  5. JVXT UDJXJN TIJ

  6. XGSY, MKPKH SIXY TCMBZM

  7. FXHKZ ILKZHU BU MPULM

  8. UAAWZSJDM EMF WMB

  9. KX WRMN Z’EV

  10. NEXU DXSDQI S XKJO QLEEJ IEE

  11. BJ WLGCDHWZJDT

  12. VCN OZUDM YSZ

Note: This is not a traditional cryptogram.

Generous Hint: Two of the films star Jack Nicholson

What are the titles? What is the quote?

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S XKJO KX QWOAW IEE UAAWZSJDM…JVXT TIJ!

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aseymayo:

I thought this puzzle would finally be the one that would be too difficult for you to solve. But I was wrong. I tip my hat to you. Big time.

Have you considered a job with the CIA as chief cryptographer?

Or better still, have you ever considered writing puzzles? I’d look forward to the challenge!