Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

YMNO BYMMTVD ORMP RH AROTHMPP, HVK RH

URQRORJNKRVH.

- UINYOMP ORHTLMYFI

[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 Democrat Gazette

Solve it in

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

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Saturday 8/14/2021

DYWF BVUEQ BVXEQ IK C BYVEK EVD IKDDKU WN BK AXFD TCQK CZ KNNVUD DV IK EKFF YVUUWIEK DV VZK CZVDYKU. —KEEWVD SCLK

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

THIS WORLD WOULD BE A WHOLE LOT BETTER IF WE JUST MADE AN EFFORT TO BE LESS HORRIBLE TO ONE ANOTHER. —ELL[IOT?] PAGE

The author's first name appears to be incorrect. Google search attributes this quote to Ellen Page.

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

3:41.86 Took me a bit. HVK did it for me. Gave me the next word, and that gave me URQRORJNKRVH which fits a distinctive pattern.

Who knew that UINYOMP ORHTLMYFI was a Rousseauvian? "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

[Magnum44]

Party!

[Political Junkie Too]

I somehow got the last word before the author, and that got me the author. The rest came after that.

A few days ago, someone offered the hint to look for word endings on long words, and that worked here.

-PJ

[Steven Tyler]

tried different endings of final word.
Third attempt opened up final word, then the author, then the puzzle

[Moltke]

Played around with the two-letter word and then the word following the comma. When that looked right a stab at the fifth-last letter of the last word, guessed the first name which led to the surname, and that was that. Minutes were spent.