Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

RV ZMAXUZR BUVBXURK ZG MVR RV HX HVUM — ZR ZG RV HX GRZTTHVUM, UJRAXU. —AXMUK OJYZO RAVUXJW

[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. 

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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]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Thursday 3/18/2021:

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

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

ONE ALWAYS HAS TIME ENOUGH IF ONE WILL APPLY IT WELL. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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[nikos1121]

Today’s CG is fairly easy, and I suspect we’ll see some under 60 second winners today.

Many of you will recognize the author right out of the gate.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

0:43.12

Author's name is a giveaway.

Author's birthplace. I used to pass it every day on my commute.

[MustKnowHistory]

I don’t understand the author’s meaning. But, three-named author, small words..etc.

[Magnum44]

[Magnum44]

Like many spoiled youth over the last 40 years, they don’t appreciate what they don’t have to work for.

[nikos1121]

I AGREE. Can someone decipher what the author means? Is he saying that when a person dies what he has should go to the state and not the individual?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I take it to mean that you don’t appreciate life unless you have to work for things. Many people who inherit wealth actually live useful and fulfilling lives, but a lot of them (e.g., the Kennedys, certain royals) are more miserable than most people born into more constrained circumstances.

[nikos1121]

That’s why the shrewdest of people set up Trust Accounts for the offspring.

[gr8eman]

Is that “nuanced” or just confusing?

[cartan]

So many short words make it fun and simple…

[xrmusn]

Akin to being born on 3rd base and spend the rest of ones life thinking one had hit a triple.

[scrabblehack]

That’s what I got out of it. I’m pretty sure he didn’t have any kids.