Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

MD TMZ GCW CQ CVV QAODE ECGFAXAGD HVDCEJFD QZ BJQR CHHFZCGMDE EJKVAOAQR. —VCICQDF

[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.

Solution to our last puzzle. Simply scroll your cursor over the text while left clicking your mouse, and the words should appear.

NEVER JUDGE PEOPLE BY THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN. GOD MAKES EACH OF US UNIQUE IN WAYS THAT GO MUCH DEEPER. RUBY BRIDGES

[nikos1121]

Tricky CG today from The Arkansas Gazette.

10 minutes good
5 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior

[ComputerGuy]

Tricky is right. Coffee helped, I’m sure.

[zeebee]

Got it except for one letter

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I guessed (correctly: mostly dumb luck) the letter in the author’s name. It would probably not help to know that the author’s first and middle names were Johann Kaspar. I googled it for confirmation.

I rate this one more difficult than average, 7 on a scale of 1-10. The first two words are a common opening, and that’s what got me started.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

My initial guess at CQ CVV was correct, but I didn’t like the way it made the author’s name look, so I abandoned that tack, only to come back to it.

[MustKnowHistory]

Double letters and short words. No idea who is the author is.

[Magnum44]

Oorah

[grey_whiskers]

All but one letter of the last name (I don’t know the author), 3 min.
Word 5 is the key because of the double letter.
Two likely choices.
Grammar together with shared letter with 4th word guides you;
then leads you to the 3rd word.

1st letter of 9th word gives you that.

Then grammar again gives you 2nd word rapidly followed by 1st.

Then look at all the pretty letters which have been filled in, in the next-to-last word of the sentence. Complete that word (hint: note the double letter).

Then the 7th and 8th words are trivial.

Then everything else but the one letter in the author’s name is obvious.

[xrmusn]

After a couple of false starts I managed to put something together.

I wouldn’t have quite put it the way the author did.

[SolidRedState]

Toughy. OVER 10 minutes. Deceiving and strangely worded.