Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

LB HAQ XDRMF PDQTLFAC QDN TD HRPZ XZACALQ NZAU

FLBBAC, IT XZACALQ NZAU ISCAA, NZACA XDRMF KA BIC

MATT DB RQPZICLNIKMAQATT IQF IQSCU BAAMLQS.

- WDTAEZ IFFLTDQ

[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]

Another tricky one from my archives.

Stick with it, and it will miraculously appear.

Solve it in

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

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Thursday 8/19/2021

WQ QSLHZ IN JNCABNCWZH QN YWGH AHNAFH QKHWB BWYKQZ … WQ QSLHZ IN CNIHM QN BHZAHJQ QKH WIUWGWUOSF. —KSBGHM CWFL

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

IT TAKES NO COMPROMISE TO GIVE PEOPLE THEIR RIGHTS … IT TAKES NO MONEY TO RESPECT THE INDIVIDUAL. —HARVEY MILK

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Scarlett156]

Ah, I remember like yesterday, my old grandmother telling me, “Now, Kristi, always remember to XDRMF PDQTLFAC QDN!”

[nikos1121]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

2:43.46 Letter frequency and NZACA.

Haibatullah Akhundzada was not available for comment

[Moltke]

NZACA is always a safe bet.

[Magnum44]

So, the author was a member of the kit cat klub, eh?

[Kipp]

Long quotes are generally easy, but I had several false starts on this one. Ended up correctly guessing the last four letters of the 16-letter word and then it flowed from there.

[grey_whiskers]

5 min.

Get that word ISCAA in the middle with letter frequency,
it’s the key to the whole thing.

[Political Junkie Too]

Yes, tricky, but I got it in about 5 minutes. I solved ISCAA and then the rest opened up from there.

-PJ

[gitmo]

Five minutes.