Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

NJG MAANU AY BII VAARZGUU IDG DZ NJG UADI AY BLLMGPDBNDAZ YAM VAARZGUU.---RBIBD IBSB

[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]

Not too complicated CG from The Arkansas Gazette this morning.

4 minutes good
2 minutes excellent
90 seconds amazing

[Steven Tyler]

Whew, false starts and flailing.

Options for 12 letter words
word 11, then 12

Hello Dolly

[xrmusn]

Maybe, BUT money is the root of all evil (so ‘they’ say)

However, WORK is the CURSE of the Drinking Class.....
though, normally, one must work to be able to afford to drink....

[cartan]

Got it relatively quickly. Started with word 4…

[Magnum44]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Solution to last cryptogram:

WHEN ASKED IF MY CUP IS HALF-FULL OR HALF-EMPTY, MY ONLY RESPONSE IS THAT I AM THANKFUL I HAVE A CUP.---SAM LEFKOWITZ

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

1:32.23, (93.23 seconds) just short of amazing. (Irony intended.) Taking a whack at BII gave me the source right off (try it), and it was little more than typing after that.

[southernindymom]

too funny