Sunday Morning Puzzle # 26

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Just 2 weeks until my vacation–it can’t come soon enough…
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This week’s puzzle involves a group of well known names. The names have all undergone Key Word Encoding. Here’s how Key Word Encoding works:

A key word with no repeating letters is chosen. Then, any time a letter from the key word is used in the text to be encoded, that letter is replaced by the following letter from the key word. The first letter of the key word replaces the last.

Example:
Key Word: LEADING
Key Code: L=E, E=A, A=D, D=I, I=N, N=G, and G=L.
Name to be Encoded: GEORGEBUSH
Encoded Name: LAORLABUSH
Second Name to be Encoded: BILLCLINTON
Second Encoded Name: BNEECENGTOG

Note that only letters from the key word change. All others remain the same.

The 13 names below all relate to this week’s puzzle theme. The key word describes certain other people who also relate to the theme.

Problem: Each encoded name has a block of 3 or more consecutive letters that are not part of the name.

Mitigating Circumstance: The extra letters (also encoded using the same key word) when decoded will spell out an appropriate quote from the Beach Boys.
Can you decipher the names, the key word, and the quote?

  1. CRTPFGDCGBDOLNRN

  2. IODNRSOCHRONG

  3. LRNSYKOAERWRVX

  4. BGNNGGRNTTCGDE

  5. LASYONYRTLGN

  6. DOUGADGDWRTGDL

  7. TOLFTMCDAFLG

  8. LTGTFNVGNLGRERI

  9. RMUONYTRN

  10. STOPFNRHLHODG

  11. BALTOETGDCDRBBG

  12. HRMFITHGWOONEFLH

  13. LHGIDISIGYWFNTGDL

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Vacation, eh? I’m afraid you’re not going anywhere until you tell us the answer to Puzzle 24. My head is still swimming from that one.

I believe #8 should read: LTGTFNVGNLGRURI

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Congratulations aseymayo!

I’m very sorry about the typo. I had the rough draft of this puzzle done on Friday and spent a lot of time on trying to make sure it was accurate. I don’t know how I missed that letter mistake, but I am impressed you solved the difficult puzzle anyway. My apologies to anyone who was led astray by the typo.

As to puzzle 24, my advice would be to ignore everything except the text of the story. Read it out loud or have someone read it out loud to you. See if something else jumps out at you, or at least calls your attention (and no, there’s no double meaning to that).

If this fails, read the clues one by one, saving the four hints for last. The hints are really a different puzzle, though they do point you in the right direction. And don’t worry about astronomy or Zen, just look at the BIG picture.

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You left out BFIIYOCGRN.

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IFKG YOAD LTYIG! Keep ‘em comin’. And please, for the love of God, help with #24…