Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

ESSI XKADCIQ, ESSI NSSHQ GCI G QODDZM LSCQLADCLD: VWAQ AQ VWD AIDGO OAXD. —FGKH VRGAC

[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. 

   HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

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 Gazette

5 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
1 you get a cuban cigar

[nikos1121]

[Political Junkie Too]

-PJ

[nikos1121]

Is that Sleepy?

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

And their drinking coffee because their QODDZM.

LOL

[Political Junkie Too]

Yes.

-PJ

[grey_whiskers]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Thursday, January 26, 2023

CEG XIJ’U MBU UEE LGXV OSJUBN SJ UVB OSJUBN. —NEFBNU DNEQU

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

YOU CAN'T GET TOO MUCH WINTER IN THE WINTER - ROBERT FROST

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A NSSH of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou

[ComputerGuy]

I briefly considered majoring in Library Science.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

O my goodness. I just realized that the iPad spell-check changed “they’re” (they are) to “their” in my post #7.

[scrabblehack]

I assume it is one able to QODDZ rather than one that is not paying attention.

[Magnum44]

[Magnum44]

[Magnum44]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It did seem uncharacteristic of you, and I initially had difficulty understanding it.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

O my goodness. I just realized that the iPad spell-check changed “they’re” (they are) to “their” in my post #7.

You misspelled covfefe , too.

[gitmo]

SSSHHHH !!