Cryptoquizzes

[Death Mage]

For those who like puzzle magazines, you've seen these before. For those that haven't, the rules are simple. You're given ten words, all related, that have had the same simple letter-replacement cipher applied to them. The goal is to unscramble the list, using the category as a clue to help you figure out the list. Well, I enjoy these puzzles, so I thought I'd make my own for you guys to try. The category is CBWZP OTAZF.

Oops, it appears that the category got encrypted too. *shrug* Oh well, good luck!

GBGMZGWP
XPGO
XNTUFMTMBPG
TQHTWZF
XTH-ATG
ATQBP
FZOT
WPGVZU VPGO
TMTQB
MZMQBF
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[Loki*]

I think there's a problem with: WPGJZU VPGO. It should be WPGJZU JPGO or WPGVZU VPGO.

[Death Mage]

Wouldn't be one of my puzzles if it didn't have a typo in it, now would it?
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[Death Mage]

Since the first one seemed to work out, I went ahead and made a second.

DI LXQ FDCDIP GZZO

LQFQCDNDZI
GQVFDIQG
VZEEQQ LYMFQ
MZZH NXQFE
VZJVX
VQDFDIP EYI
EDGQWFYVQ
WDVLJGQN
LXGZR GJP
RDIBZRN
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[Loki]

LZZH NXQFE should probably be MZZH NXQFE

[Death Mage]

See? It's a great way to tell that they've been solved.
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[Zag]

[Death Mage]

So what do you guys think? Cryptoquizzes themselves are fairly easy, but I figured hiding the category as well would make them more challenging for you guys. Like, dislike?
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[Poisonium]

I'm completely at loss, but I'm not very good at solving these kinds of puzzles anyway.
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[Zag]

[Loki]

I was getting nowhere until I gave up trying to find valid matches for OTAZF and FZOT.

[Zag]

Here's one.

ABB MCDEMFG

SDLMRRZ
EBCHZI
FDBC
JDSZL
OZML
OBM UBCGJLDUJBL
FFMEM
JDEOZL KBFR
SCN
MMLYVMLH

[Death Mage]

I think WBFR would be better as something like KBFR
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[Zag]

[Loki]

FFMEM and MMLYVMLH are so unique they practically give it away.

[Loki*]

I'll give it a shot:

Category: JHUOMATHU HSINGR
OL JHOLIMDR
YOU H
EAT ITLUR
MY KMGCNETJ
CHISM AMLTX
HGLTROHK
AHOS EM EAT EAOTQ

[Death Mage]

You eat your own chism, I've gotta take off for a while, so I'll attempt it later.
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[Zag]

[Death Mage]

There are supposed to be 10 clues, so maybe you should have waited until they released 3 more.

Also, I had to look them up, sadly, as I had no frame of reference.

BUT, I did get about as far as I could go based off that last clue alone, and made substantial progress from there. So despite that, I feel proud of myself.
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[Death Mage]

HTCZF DWPG CWOKZF

BWQGRKPBZE
XWM WPQX QKOZ AUKYZ
AVZ CTP UKAV AVZ BWQGZP BMP
YTFKPW EWXTQZ
GKZ TPWAVZE GTX
GE. PW
RWE XWME ZXZF WPQX
REWC EMFFKT UKAV QWOZ
QKOZ TPG QZA GKZ
AVZ UWEQG KF PWA ZPWMBV
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[Zag]

Tradition upheld!!

In HTCZF CWPG CWOKZF

Note the C's that start the second and third words. These should be different. I believe that you are using C to represent two different letters throughout. Edit: Hmmm, I guess that the letter the first use of C is supposed to be is not used anywhere else, so my statement is technically accurate, but misleading.

Also, YTFKPW EQXTQZ should be YTFKPW EWXTQZ

[Zag]

For Loki's, you said that the last one was what gave it to you. I focused on that one, too, but all I got from it was

AHOS EM EAT EAOTQ = Hail to the Thief

Which I thought would be a really interesting parody song for a Libertarian, perhaps. But this didn't seem to lead anywhere for any of the other clues.

Maybe a hint? Also, I still haven't solved your first one, so I could use a hint there, too.

[Death Mage]

All I'm going to say is you're on the right track.

From there, the next thing I got was the category.

As for my first one... I couldn't tell ya how to solve it. I tried putting in words with common groups of letters to help. Another trick is the first clue is usually the "most obvious" one with the category, the thing people will think of first. At least, that's how it's designed to be. Other than that, I can't help much.
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[Loki]

I didn't think Hail To The Thief was that obscure. Maybe I'm a creep.

For Death Mage's first one, the letter frequencies are pretty close to standard. Once I couldn't find a valid match where OTAZF and FZOT were valid words, I figured we're dealingwith proper nouns. XTH-ATG
is pretty unusual, too, most likely a repeated vowel sound. That makes TMTQB begin with VCV, with both T & M being common letter (11 & 6) occurrences: ARA, ASA, ATA, ALA, ANA, ERE, ESE, ETE, ELE, ENE.

[Zag]

[Death Mage]

It's probably not obscure. As I said, it's just obscure to me. I think it was a good puzzle, after all, I was able to solve it. I ended up with enough information, but without knowing the proper series of words/phrases in that commonality, I had to look up some of them.
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[Death Mage]

I was going through another puzzle book, solving some of these again, and I came across one that was just awful. The answers were stretches, while many GOOD answers were simply lacking from the list. So I decided to make up a better list, and see if you guys could solve it.

Here's hoping I left out the typos this time...

SJRFL "MZTX"

LSTXF
WFSOY
VTRFXFL
CVGRSTOF
RFLP
VGMSTC
CVQVGVZT
WZPW
NVTCFC
BZYTG
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After "Long": Range, Beach, Integer, Distance, Term, Island, Division, Bomb, Winded, Johns
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[Death Mage]

Nice work. I was getting worried that nobody could (or wanted to) work that one.
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