Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

PESENO LIP LERPC CXDAUDTBDU IP IQCKUC RPTDUU CXDO LIP LIQQO I MKLCRQD KP CXDKQ XDIN SDJEQD CXDO MIKPC KC. —LTIRND AEPDC

[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

[ComputerGuy]

I see lily pads.

[1_Rain_Drop]

LOL
Hunter’s brain exposed

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I painted myself into a hole until I saw that word # 7 has a double letter at the end. That cleared the mistake I had made and the rest fell into place,

[Kiss7]

Did Hal change format or was it my upgrade?
I’m not a fan.

[enumerated]

I’m no expert, but the grammar seems a bit off with regard to singular vs. plural - which threw me off a bit.

[ComputerGuy]

Good one.

[nikos1121]

Lools the same for me...

[tnlibertarian]

Probably a translation error.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Wednesday 12/8/2021

OMA NET LPT HAU LMLNS MY TRTEOLPKCX OMA’RT TRTE HTTC, PTNEI, TNLTC, HUTSSTI, FTTC LMSI, YMEXML — KL’H NSS LPTET — UNON NCXTSMA

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

YOU ARE THE SUM TOTAL OF EVERYTHING YOU’VE EVER SEEN, HEARD, EATEN, SMELLED, BEEN TOLD, FORGOT — IT’S ALL THERE — MAYA ANGELOU

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

2:25.53 The one letter word gives you the two-letter word, which gives you the first word. Then it comes into focus. Unlike the author's oeuvre.

Possible Spoiler: My wife dragged me to an exhibit at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston of the Author's works. In one room there were 80 (literally 80) versions of water lilies at Giverny. Apparently he produced 250 such paintings, more or less the same. Whenever he needed to pay the butcher or grocer, he would knock out another copy.

[Magnum44]

[Political Junkie Too]

About three minutes. I started with the one-letter word and then the most common letter. At this point, I hunted out a few letters here and there. There was no breakthrough letter, it was just the cumulative effect of placing common letters where they grammatically made sense.

-PJ

[stormhill]

It’s just the new politically correct woke grammar. Microsoft Word will flag it down if you don’t use it. You can be certain the author didn’t say it like that in the original language. N’est-ce pas?

[Moltke]