Some hints for playing Crypt-O-Gram:

* These are all one liner Halloween jokes, so most start with W for What, When, Where, Why sometimes H for How.

* When your decode letter is correct, it will show in lower case in the joke unless starts a sentence or is Proper Name, a bad guess will leave the letter capitalized.

* How many one letter words are there? How many 2?

* Frequent double letters are ee ll in Halloween, oo in Boo.

* Frequent words and subjects of the one liners: ghost, witch, skeleton, mummy, monsters.

* If you want the current coded highlighted letter solved without guessing, select (menu item) 2.

* If you have to have an E, S, T, R...  then select (menu item) 3, you will be prompted for the letter.

* If you want to just clear the highlighted letter guess that is clearly wrong, select (menu item) 4.

* If you totally give up and want to see the solution, select (menu item) 1.

* Coded Letters and prompts are color coded Yellow. Guess-to-Solve letters and prompts are color coded White.

From Christopher Johnson's ASCII Art Collection:
https://asciiart.website/index.php

First Splash Screen comic with mods by me:
Thank you for visiting https://asciiart.website/
This ASCII pic can be found at
https://asciiart.website/index.php?art=holiday/halloween

10 Halloweens.txt (supposed to be 13 I think, I also modified to move or remove some initials.):
Thank you for visiting https://asciiart.website/
This ASCII pic can be found at
https://asciiart.website/index.php?art=holiday/halloween



Sound Sources:

Thank you Pixabay, nice upbeat background music with taste of Halloween.
Happy Halloween Scary & Creepy Music 
Music by <a href="/users/juliush-3921568/?tab=audio&amp;utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=audio&amp;utm_content=1382">JuliusH</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=music&amp;utm_content=1382">Pixabay</a>

Wolves Howling.wav and Zen Bell.wav Thank you SoundBible and smirch.wav from Petr some years ago!



2021-09-07 Jokes are intended for QB64 home programming entertainment use only. Oh hell, these magazine guys are copying each others jokes. 

Thank you CountryLiving 
 https://www.countryliving.com/entertaining/a32963261/halloween-jokes/
 
Thank you GoodHousekeeping 
 https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/halloween-ideas/a32998753/halloween-jokes/
 
Thank you
https://kinghalloween.com/halloween-jokes/halloween-jokes-for-adults/



Old Crypt-O-Gram Notes Code notes moved here but first things first then New Notes:

First things first:

First of all something I forgot to mention in previous notes, thank you Jaze for getting me interested in this game.
My first posts on this game were here:
 https://friends-of-basic.freeforums.net/thread/87/cryptogram-puzzle
after helping Jaze, I didn't want to take over his thread so I posted at another forum.
It was Pete who got me thinking about doing Syntax Bomb Competition - One Key Challenge with only screen 0.
2021-10-12 So now after I got my 3 Graphics Effects going, I am returning back to Screen 0 code to test QB64 v2.0 with all the improvements I made on game, mostly the choice$ function. 



New to v 2021-10-12 development notes for Halloween Challenge One Key Control in Screen 0:

This version started by stripping down the Graphics version Crypt-O-Gram - Halloween Challenge v 2021-10-10 back to a pure Screen 0 mode then:
* Revised the display screen so that the 1, 2, 3, 4 "Menu" choices looks like a menu.
* Changed the highlight color from Blue to High Green, Lime, because I thought more Halloween/Fall like.
* Changed the selection key to press or hold down to Right Arrow Key, from spacebar, because I naturally head that way when I come in cold from something else. (2021-10-13 I changed it back to match Competition discussion.)
* Added back in happy_halloween... background music which is nice while the playing game.
* Added back in random evil laughing and wolves howling, goes great with music!
* Added some flashy print lettering in Fall theme colors.
* ASCII Splash screens between puzzles.
* 2 ASCII witches that play Infinite Pong with an ASCII pumpkin. 
  
 I think that's a wrap! 2021-10-13 Happy Halloween.


