Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

IKZ OVQ RVAFR PV XVDZ TQAZPJO, VK YV A BIHZ PV QMZ ZIKWJQRM?---MWAUZ DAJJARIF

[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]

Solve it in

4 minutes is good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
90 seconds amazing

[nikos1121]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Saturday 6/19/2021:

SHYCNCVR CI NXO JSNX NV IBAAOII. JOLICINORAO CI NXO POXCAQO DVB SLLCPO CR. —YCQQ YLSWQOD

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

AMBITION IS THE PATH TO SUCCESS. PERSISTENCE IS THE VEHICLE YOU ARRIVE IN. —BILL BRADLEY

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Political Junkie Too]

This was a tough one for me. Lots of one-use letters.

Tip: When the single letter word is crypted to either A or I, the answer has to be the other one.

-PJ

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

1:43.27 (No Coffee yet.) The expression "A BIHZ" did it for me.

Spoiler alert: I noticed that the letters A and I swapped places, when examining my clue. When I "shuffle" the alphabet, I apply a constraint that no two letter swap place, and no letter represents itself. (No letter representing itself was a cytological weakness in the Enigma.)

[Steven Tyler]

Good Puzzle
Single letter word
Correct vowel for the two letter words
Then off to the races.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The rest of the story: "He had me trapped inside an Egyptian tomb. Thank goodness that Boy Scout blundered in."

Come Along Quietly: Cosmopolitan May 1955

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Bonus cryptogram:

LCN PFZIM YOAHW QAJ EFVKNT AGNO LCN BUXR YOAHW TASD.

A familiar expression, I was just curious how hard it is to decipher. I would appreciate feedback.

[Magnum44]

[nikos1121]

That’s A great tip. Thank you very much for it!

[Stars&StripesNE]

[Kiss7]

Finding it impossible......

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I’ll add it to the solution tomorrow. It was not meant to be torment, I type it as an exercise for an octave script and it occurred to me it might be a very difficult cryptogram.