Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

UPO QWW AZMGLAQWK QBM XQC. FLOZPSO AZMGLAQWK KSAZ

QK ZDCBPYMU QUC PIDYMU, RPB MIQGHWM, OZMBM FPSWC

XM UP FQD OP GQVM FQOMB, Q NLOQW LUYBMCLMUO LU

XMMB.

- CQNM XQBBD

[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]

I apologize for the errata in yesterday’s CG. Extra points for those who found it.

Many of you solve the CG without completing
it, ie you stop and try reading it. So, you missed the error.

Today’s CG is that type.

Try working it for about 20 seconds, stop and see what you can read, work 20 more seconds and do the same.

Words, like the author’s name, will appear, and you should solve the CG before writing out all the letters. This will reduce your time tremendously.

You should know, that I try solving all the CGs before I post them. I try to avoid transposing them, as invariably I make a mistake, like I did yesterday.

Today’s Cryptogram is from the archives, and a good one.

A quickie

3 minutes good
2 minutes excellent
1 minutes exceptional

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle 2/28/2021:

FG LBUOPOJU LJ LB UZO KRURPO TOCYRJO L YF AMLBA UM JDOBN UZO POJU MK FG WLKO UZOPO.---CZYPWOJ K. VOUUOPLBA

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

MY INTEREST IS IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE I AM GOING TO SPEND THE REST OF MY LIFE THERE.---CHARLES F. KETTERING

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[cartan]

He is not wrong. Superfast, starting with common letter and the second word…

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

2:58.77 (I don't consider this a competition, I am just reporting statistics. Science!) The erratum in yesterday's puzzle was in the published copy of the Arkansas Gazette. I have an Octave script that generates substitution ciphers that are free of that "defect", whose exclusion is actually a cryptological weakness.

[Magnum44]

[MustKnowHistory]

Very easy.

[Texas Eagle]

Amen, bro! Prosit!

[nikos1121]

thank you for that,
now i feel better.

[nikos1121]

huh?

[Magnum44]

My hints are not always tangential, but that one was. To bring it home...

[1_Rain_Drop]

2:58.43
need more coffee

[nikos1121]

um yes very very good

[pinkandgreenmom]

How appropriate. My 16 year old just bombed a test in his college class on this subject and I’m trying to talk him off the ledge. I’m just thankful for this small bit of humor.

[grey_whiskers]

About a minute and a half.

It just poured out, I didn’t even have to use my head.

[xrmusn]

Sometimes, when one is a perfectionist, they can get away with saying the ‘mistake’ was intentional so as to see who is paying attention.... HA HA