Today’s Cryptogram

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.

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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.

1 posted on 09/04/2021 8:54:13 PM PDT by nikos1121

To: alicewonders; AloneInMass; Aria; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; capecodder; ...

From the Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Solve it in

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

2 posted on 09/04/2021 8:55:14 PM PDT by nikos1121

That was quick for some reason i do not see.

3 posted on 09/04/2021 9:09:42 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)

4 posted on 09/04/2021 9:34:25 PM PDT by Nailbiter

Not Alec’s or Stephen’s brother.

5 posted on 09/05/2021 3:10:25 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)

Previous puzzle Saturday 9/4/2021

LFN ZJB CFI PNVGL IF TB KBJB. IKB MFJPH CBBHY LFNJ WBJYWBVIRSB. IKBL ZJB PNVGL IF KZSB LFN. —ZCIFCRF IROBJRCF

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

YOU ARE NOT LUCKY TO BE HERE. THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR PERSPECTIVE. THEY ARE LUCKY TO HAVE YOU. —ANTONIO TIJERINO

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6 posted on 09/05/2021 3:15:51 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

7 posted on 09/05/2021 4:31:05 AM PDT by Stars&StripesNE

8 posted on 09/05/2021 5:05:41 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

1:42.93 Nothing came to me, so I took a stab at the second and fourth letter of the author's first name and got lucky. Just plodding after that.

I would take issue with the author. Rather than KPL NYJ VPR PYW JRKPCJQ KR GRWL I would say it's the KPL NYJ VPR believes he PYW JRKPCJQ KR GRWL. There is a difference, and we have far too many of the latter these days.

9 posted on 09/05/2021 5:08:40 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

last 4 letters of word 4 got me going

10 posted on 09/05/2021 8:22:01 AM PDT by Steven Tyler

One minute. I got the first word and then the string of four consecutive three-letter words, and the rest flowed from there.

-PJ

11 posted on 09/05/2021 10:16:41 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I don’t know. One could say it’s written about the guy who is our president.

12 posted on 09/06/2021 1:18:08 AM PDT by nikos1121

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