TODAY’S CRYPTOGRAM

[nikos1121]

QHDPG XPBC NEH CYANDUHA BX BNEHPA. LBO KDG’N QYSH QBGW HGBOWE NB CDUH NEHC DQQ LBOPAHQX. —HQHDGBP PBBAHSHQN

[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. 

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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.

[nikos1121]

Pretty easy one today, once you pick out some old friends.

It’s one of those CGs that you can stop and read it to the end before you finish inserting all the letters.

From The Arkansas Gazette

2 minutes good
1 1/2 minutes excellent
1 minute exceptional
50 seconds superior

[MustKnowHistory]

Less than a minute.

Thank you for posting these!

[ComputerGuy]

You’re right. EZ today

[nikos1121]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Monday, November, the First, The Feast of All Saints, Anno Domini 2021

NQJ NR HOSQD YRGONLMDB STRXN OCOQJNLMDB SDK OCOQJNLMDB STRXN YRGONLMDB. —NLRGSY LXWHOJ

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

TRY TO LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING ABOUT SOMETHING. —THOMAS HUXLEY

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

TODAY’S CRYPTOGRAM ping!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

1:14.83 Familiar, and variously attributed. The contraction gave me the two letter word, which gave me LBO, which gave me LBOPAHQX, after which it was just typing.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Solution

[EvilCapitalist]

Possibly the ugliest first lady ever.

[nikos1121]

Good one...

[Magnum44]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A little too overly-engaged, and married to her fourth cousin, once removed.

[absalom01]

Letter frequency, then solve the three-letter word, gives the name, solves the puzzle.

[Political Junkie Too]

One minute. Got the contraction letter, then the common word, then the author's name, then the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

[Parley Baer]

By the way keep me on the ping list.

[grey_whiskers]

Less than a minute.

Letter after the apostrophe, next-to-last word, first word, off to the races.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Tuesday, November, the Second, The Feast of All Souls, Anno Domini 2021

QHDPG XPBC NEH CYANDUHA BX BNEHPA. LBO KDG’N QYSH QBGW HGBOWE NB CDUH NEHC DQQ LBOPAHQX. —HQHDGBP PBBAHSHQN

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

LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES OF OTHERS. YOU CAN’T LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE THEM ALL YOURSELF. —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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