Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

QY KHY KPP FLHVKP ZSVXP VTY BXHWV UXWW KSC VTY WYOLSC DPKWW LB QXSY. —YCZKHCL DKPYKSL

[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]

From The Arkansas Gazette

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

[Secret Agent Man]

Bidens New Code Name Is DEPENDS

[GreatRoad]

Thanks, I enjoyed this quote. It reminded me of a Valentine’s day I had in Sonoma a while back.

[nikos1121]

Does anyone know if you can install an aftermarket heated steering wheel for a 2021 Tacoma?

[Political Junkie Too]

Wow. One minute! I guessed at the third word (double letter) and was right. I then guessed at the third word from the end (another double letter), and was right again. Then I added the most common letter and that got me the first two words and then I was off to the races.

-PJ

[nikos1121]

Might be your lucky day to buy a lottery ticket.

[ComputerGuy]

Dayum. I did this one sans covfefe.

[stormhill]

I’ll drink to that!

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

PJ, you are right. All it took was to guess that 3rd word (double letter word) and everything else fell into place. As for the author’s name… don’t fill in what you think it should be until you have all the other words solved.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Monday 11/29/2021

KY FROV LRY EMYYOI XRB UMFTD DRZ CMKLY VR TRLW MV DRZ FRL’Y CMKLY UMFTD TKNO RYXOI CORCTO. —WORIWO ERRIO

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

IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW BADLY YOU PAINT SO LONG AS YOU DON’T PAINT BADLY LIKE OTHER PEOPLE. —GEORGE MOORE

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[Peter ODonnell]

No thanks Mr Pinochet, I will make my own way home.

[Magnum44]

[grey_whiskers]

'Bout a minute and a half.

Letter pattern gives 3rd word.

That gives 2nd word, then 1st.

Letter pattern gives 5th word, then 3rd and 4th.

[GreatRoad]

Well, if you stay at a nice hotel in town, you can just walk back.

[scrabblehack]

For you Batman fans out there, Poison Ivy’s was said to be fatal.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

1:19.89 Better late than never, I suppose.