TODAY’S CRYPTOGRAM

[nikos1121]

QFX EVSNR FGM GLFDXOXR ASDNNDGULX EDQFVPQ EDMRVY, HVEXS EDQFVPQ LVUMLDXULX. VPSM DM G EVSNR VI UPLNXGS KDGUQM GUR XQFDLGN DUIGUQM. —KXU. VYGS ASGRNXB

[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 Gazette

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Saturday 10/2/2021

TJ’B LGBO JV DGSL WMTIKTWXLB PDLI OVN’ML MTKD. JDL TUWVMJGIJ JDTIQ TB JV DGSL WMTIKTWXLB PDLI OVN’ML WVVM. —MGO G. FMVK

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

IT’S EASY TO HAVE PRINCIPLES WHEN YOU’RE RICH. THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO HAVE PRINCIPLES WHEN YOU’RE POOR. —RAY A. KROC

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[nikos1121]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

1:13.22 (Just filled in the name at the end.) First word is the obvious choice, and it's almost automatic after that.

Last of nine

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Good one.

[nikos1121]

We had a data glitch, and I may have lost some people from the ping list.

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[BiglyCommentary]

Took a quick stab in the dark that “KXU.” was “MRS.”, but that would mean the only possible word that could fit for “LVUMLDXULX” was “discourser”, and assigning that blows up the other unsolved words into none words. So punting on my lame one shot.

[Magnum44]

[MustKnowHistory]

Yep. First and third word.

[AloneInMass]

Generally speaking, long but not difficult.

[JaguarXKE]

Under two minutes. Got a couple of the three letter words, then the ninth word, and after that started seeing patterns for other words and it just fell into place.

This describes today's left I'd say.

[Political Junkie Too]

One minute. I started with the single-letter word, and then the first word. This got me the fourth word, and that opened up the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ