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Who Said That? (Posted on 2004-07-03) Difficulty: 4 of 5
Below is a not so famous quote, your job is to decode the message, and give the name of the author.

"O TFTFFT'N TENFENFS NN OF EFTOE NF TTFEFN."

  Submitted by Juggler    
Rating: 2.7143 (7 votes)
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The Answer is Thomas Hood (1799-1845), the quote being "A moment's thinking is an hour in words."

to encode, firstly substitute each letter of the alphabet for a number, then take the first letter of the words in this number and you have your code:

A	1	O
B	2	T
C	3	T
D	4	F
E	5	F
F	6	S
G	7	S
H	8	E
I	9	N
J	10	T
K	11	E
L	12	T
M	13	T
N	14	F
O	15	F
P	16	S
Q	17	S
R	18	E
S	19	N
T	20	T
U	21	TO
V	22	TT
W	23	TT
X	24	TF
Y	25	TF
Z	26	TS
The difficulty then is that some letters could actually decode back into a number of different letters; eg, T could be B,C,J,L,M or T.

So, it is a case of re-arranging the letters into a phrase that makes sense. Only then can you name the author.

Here's how the puzzle decodes:

O   T F T F F T ' N   T E N F E N F S   N N   O F   E F TO E   N F   TT F E F N
A   M O M E N T ' S   T H I N K I N G   I S   A N   H O U  R   I N   W  O R D S

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  Subject Author Date
Quote And Its AuthorK Sengupta2008-01-24 12:02:42
re: QuoteTim C2004-07-09 12:38:41
SolutionThe missing piece:Gamer2004-07-03 17:56:48
QuoteEric2004-07-03 13:39:49
Some ThoughtsAlmost solutionCharlie2004-07-03 13:20:01
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