Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

YV L NZZW QXFAVDVU; QXFAVD VXNKAT-PXRV CVUSVDA ZP AKV AXGV. WVRVQZC AKV LUA ZP QXFAVDXDN. —L.L. GZDALCVUA

[nikos1121]

You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. I challenge us with the best ones out there.

The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).

Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days.  If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.

PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.

You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!

I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.

You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter. 

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One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.

[nikos1121]

From the Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Solve it in

4 minutes is good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
90 seconds amazing

[Political Junkie Too]

About 10 minutes. I started with the one-letter word, and then the most common letter. Then the first and third words. Then the 12th word and the rest was easy.

-PJ

[ComputerGuy]

Who?

[grey_whiskers]

OK, you win the thread. That was good!

My computer locked up, so I don't know my time.

But 1st & 2nd words by most common letter, then letter pattern. 3rd word (given the first 2) by grammar and letter pattern.

Then the repeated 3-letter word, then the last 3 letters of the last word.

Then the 1st word of the second sentence, then off to the races.

[MustKnowHistory]

This worked out rather quickly, much to my surprise.

My initial assumptions were correct, correctly placed the vowels, and there it was.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Saturday 9/25/2021

ZH QVMS VG ZXS NTNSGZ ZXVDY VD ZXS FHNQW. PHGZ LSHLQS SUVGZ; ZXTZ VG TQQ. —HGKTN FVQWS

Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

TO LIVE IS THE RAREST THING IN THE WORLD. MOST PEOPLE EXIST; THAT IS ALL. —OSCAR WILDE

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

2:35.91 Solving the puzzle gave me the author. AKV gave me AXGV and I sort of pecked away from there.

Emulate Little Nipper

[Stars&StripesNE]

[SouthWall]

What did you say?

[BlueLancer]

1:57 ...

[Magnum44]

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Jack Russel Terriers have a very good sense of smell.