Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

SCA KBVKFU XKU RNYA ACSIPX NT SCA VNBB KQQBF NR VABB. —WSXKCC VSBTPKCP MSC PSARXA

[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

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

[nikos1121]

[gundog]

[MustKnowHistory]

Took about two minutes. The key is getting the two words vnbb and vabb .

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Wednesday 3/17/2021:

KSNU SY ETT YWTME ET TXXOCH TDUYUKN GSEW EWU YKQHSDI TN EWU YKQSD ATMU EWQD TDXU. —EWTAQY WORKUH

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

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO OCCUPY ONESELF WITH THE SLAYING OF THE SLAIN MORE THAN ONCE. —THOMAS HUXLEY

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[gundog]

That could take forever, though it was intriguing. The common double letter,and the A and U endings being common were helpful.

[nikos1121]

Good one!

[nikos1121]

Yes. A three or four letter word ending with double letters, is probably 90% of time that letter. Good starting point.

This was a pretty straight forward CG, where is opens up quickly, and the only thing affecting your time is your ability to write out the answer as fast as you can.

[Magnum44]

[Stars&StripesNE]

[gundog]

That’s crazy. My smoke alarm went off for no apparent reason at the same time I saw that.

[cartan]

Seemed rather hard, until I recognized the author…

[Magnum44]

I got you, babe. 😂

[nikos1121]

Good one

[xrmusn]

“If you don’t have time to do it right the first time, how will you ever have time to do it over.”

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

3:06.43

Der Zauberlehrling

[nikos1121]

“If you don’t have time to do it over, then do it right the first time.”

or

“If you don’t have time to do it right the first time just don’t do it.”

or

“A stich in time saves nine.”

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” ~ Albert Einstein

He wrote that in a sympathy note to a friend’s widow. It makes him sound like an insensitive jerk.

[grey_whiskers]

3 min. 8th word is key.
Most common letter is what you expect, but that does not make the first word what you expect.