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Rustlings!
THREE RUSSELL-RELATED WORD PUZZLES
by Gerry Wildenberg
Numbers 1 and 2 comprise coded quotes in which each letter stands for another letter. (For example BERTRAND RUSSELL could be coded as OREGENAQ EHFFRYY, if O=B, R=E, et cetera.) In cipher number 2, word separations are disguised and punctuation removed. The grouping into 5 letter "words" is meant only to help readability and does not relate to
the actual quote. These two quotes will be familiar to some Russellians. After solving
them, try to identify the source.
Puzzle number three is not a substitution cipher. Instead, this quote has been permuted
slightly by means of exchanging some of the letters with nearby letters. (For example,
"The puzzle below" might be changed to "tuhepzlezbelwo".) At the same time, spaces and
punctuation have been removed!
1. YJI YV CAI UYNC WUZYFCPJC IHIUIJCN YV NGLLINN WJ QILYUWJM P UPJ YV MIJWGN WN CY HIPFJ CAI PFC YV RIJGJL WPCWYJ.
2. PUXNA NHRGW KNLLP WVXWJ VHLLU BHRUR GWQEW JWHRL VFNHR WVAGN HXKWV HRHUK UEWRG VHVJA GUPVJ RNAAU PPWAR NUHUZ RWAGH NAVPR WEKJV HLECP WJUZJ FPPUX NJRNA NHZWE WHAW
3. OENOFHTEODDEFEFSTCOFMHEITPOATRNCWEHACHEICOHFUSAATTCHT
SEOHSMIESFILTTAHWEETNDTMIOAIGNEOORUWNDOOGORLVIEFORUTBET
ONETEHPURPOESOFTOHERPEOPAESLTCIONS
SOLUTION TO LAST ISSUE'S PUZZLES
When we see an American film, we know beforehand that virtue will be rewarded, that crime will be shown not to pay, and that the heroine, always faultlessly dressed in spite of incredible tribulations, will emerge happily to lifelong bliss with the hero. – Bertrand Russell, 'Political and Cultural Influence of the U.S.A.', The Listener, December 8, 1949. Reprinted in Bertrand Russell's America, v. 2, 1945-1970, edited by Feinberg and Casrils.
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