Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

VMTX IHC OHY’X BNN VRXM IHCA NINB, OHY’X VRXYNBB VRXM IHCA LHCXM. —IROORBM UAHENAZ

[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]

Easy peasy today!!!

From The Arkansas Gazette

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

[ComputerGuy]

Words two and five. Author’s last name.

[ComputerGuy]

2 and 6

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Get the contraction right and you will know what the IHC and the IHCA words are. The rest will be evident if you are looking.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Monday 12/13/2021

Accidentally posted in yesterday's as well. Sorry!

MV G KUUB IXSKS QSUQTS WVGVMBUWZTJ BGMVCGMV G DUVZQMKGDJ UE ZMTSVDS, UVS IUKO UE CKWCX ZUWVOZ TMRS G QMZCUT ZXUC. —DHSZTGI BMTUZH

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

IN A ROOM WHERE PEOPLE UNANIMOUSLY MAINTAIN A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, ONE WORD OF TRUTH SOUNDS LIKE A PISTOL SHOT. —CZESLAW MILOSZ

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[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Psalms 34:13 is a clue.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

1:12.74 (Half asleep.) Contraction, common pronoun, then the source is apparent.

YOU DON'T SAY!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Good clue! Again!

[Magnum44]

[Political Junkie Too]

About 5 minutes. My usual starting tricks didn't work. I started with the common contraction letters, and hit on it and the word before it, and then the first word, and the rest flowed after that.

-PJ