Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

NEZ WOP XOHP KEIB WEPFIEQ ED NEZI QHDB AN SONHPX WQEGBI OFFBPFHEP FE FRB QHFFQB FRHPXG. —BKHQN VHWLHPGEP

[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

[MustKnowHistory]

Tricky part is trying to to find the common three letter word. Once that is discovered, piece of cake.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Friday 3/19/2021:

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

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

TO INHERIT PROPERTY IS NOT TO BE BORN — IT IS TO BE STILLBORN, RATHER. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

1:22.03

May your equinox spring vernal!

QHFFQB did it for me. After that it's just typing.

[Magnum44]

[cartan]

Not easy. Wild guessing on small words eventually gave up some long ones…

[xrmusn]

If you tend to your small ‘problems’, the bigger ones tend to seemingly solve themselves

[Steven Tyler]

plus words 12 and 14

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Same Author:

Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed Us –
The Dews drew quivering and Chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses’ Heads
Were toward Eternity –

[cartan]

Nice, thank you! :-)

[Stars&StripesNE]

[doorgunner69]

QHFFQB and the rest fell into place