Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

BMC TCVB DZR BP XCB Z KIKKR JV BP TCX UPN Z TZTR TNPBMCN — ZQY BMCR’FF VCBBFC UPN Z KIKKR CGCNR BJEC. —DJQVBPQ KCQYFCBPQ

[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

[UpstateNYer]

Easy one today - got it in under a minute. It was 59 seconds, but it still counts :-)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Wednesday 12/1/2021

ROD SDFVQLD MP VQRDZIRHZD QLSQFIRDE ROD SDFVQLD MP I LIRQML; ROD RXM BDDK KIFD QL RODQZ SMXLXIZS RDLSDLFC. —AMOILL XMVPJILJ GML JMDROD

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

THE DECLINE OF LITERATURE INDICATES THE DECLINE OF A NATION; THE TWO KEEP PACE IN THEIR DOWNWARD TENDENCY. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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[Apple Pan Dowdy]

My quickest one yet.

Arrf, arrf !!!!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

50.20 (literally true). This one was easy, and I even fumbled filling the letters. The first five words almost fill in themselves.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Correction: My time was 59.20, not 50.20. Typo on my part, compounded by lack of proofreading.

[Magnum44]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

The key for me was the contraction. There is only one possibility. That opened up enough to fill in the rest.

[occamrzr06]

30 minutes, but it’s my first one.

[Political Junkie Too]

About two minutes. I started with the double letters of the contraction, and then the single letter word. Then the common letter and common word, finished the contraction and the word after it, and the rest flowed from there.

-PJ

[Moltke]

Kudos for sticking with it. You’ll be amazed how much progress you’ll make with practice!

[Stars&StripesNE]

first 2 words - BAM - it all fell into place under a minute.

[southernindymom]

it’s true too

[grey_whiskers]

Just over a minute.

Start with the first word.

[gundog]

Five’ll get ya ten, old Macky’s back in town....