TODAY’S CRYPTOGRAM! Try it today!

[nikos1121]

SJS QCV FOFH GCCB WE WA VARCGOFS XHQDECKHWI WAS TCASFH JY EPJR JR TPWE EFLE GCCBR GJBF EC DFCDGF TPC WHF JGGJEFHWEF? — XCOFAMVREFH

[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]

Many thanks for this original cryptogram submitted by one of our loyal puzzle solvers, (IOWs he’s the author.)

The answer to the question is “YES”.

[gundog]

One word at a time..

[nikos1121]

You achieved the Holy Grail!

[nikos1121]

Can we gloss over the name of the author of yesterday’s cryptogram ? His name is Carl Friedrich Gauss

[SaveFerris]

Well, if my mouse and sluggish browser would have cooperated, 1 minute.

LOL

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Saturday 4/17/2021:

QTBUOQTBGLI GI BUO PDOOS VN ILGOSLO, TSZ THGBUQOBGL GI BUO PDOOS VN QTBUOQTBGLI.--LTHJ NHOZOHGLM KJTDII

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

MATHEMATICS IS THE QUEEN OF SCIENCE, AND ARITHMETIC IS THE QUEEN OF MATHEMATICS.--CARL FREDERICK G[L]AUSS

This quote is attributed to Carl Friedrich Gauss.

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

2:15.60

If I ever did, I don’t recall. I’ve been doing these things for almost fifty years.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I don't look at them that way, nor most European languages. Not ever Russian. Arabic, Asian languages, yes. I had trouble with todays, for a few seconds, because I thought the author was CORNHUSKER

[Magnum44]

[Magnum44]

[southernindymom]

Yes I have looked at some and then when I see the answer .....

[KosmicKitty]

Thanks to Hal, got it in under 10 minutes

[scrabblehack]

I’m not familiar with the author - but I’m guessing it’s a witch eliminator?

[grey_whiskers]

Crap, < 1 min,
1st word letter pattern, 2nd word by grammar, 3rd word (most common letter / letter pattern / grammar all mesh), 4th word, 5th word, 6th word, off to the races.

[Steven Tyler]

words four, sixteen, nineteen

Did not get the author

[cartan]

Nice and straightforward because it’s so long. Answer is “yes” :-)

[Stars&StripesNE]

[gundog]

Doing it from the beginning, everything was pretty much done when I got to the seventh word.

[CovenBuster]

Or maybe someone who loves to bust up liberal covens from coast to coast? ;)