Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

E RDZXV TX GVEZLTWZC HDL GVPEZXV DW TLX SECCX, GZL GVPEZXV DW TLX PEUVX. —KZXXTEH XEMTHJ

[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]

A “difficult” repeat from The Arkansas Gazette

6 minutes good
5 minutes excellent
3 minutes exceptional
2 minutes superior

[ComputerGuy]

Pipeline

[nikos1121]

Desserts

[nikos1121]

[ComputerGuy]

I’m partial to spice

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Sunday 12/19/2021

KIB SWZN RZUDB HJDDBHH DSGBH YBMSEB VSEL QH QW KIB TQDKQSWUEN. -- CQWDB ZSGYUETQ

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

THE ONLY PLACE SUCCESS COMES BEFORE WORK IS IN THE DICTIONARY. -- VINCE LOMBARDI

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

3:06.69 TX sort of broke it for me. (Slow, I know). That helped me get the author's first name.

[nikos1121]

Is that you?

[gundog]

A repeat from years ago.

[nikos1121]

Noted, see post #1

[nikos1121]

It didn’t make sense then, doesn’t make sense now.

[gundog]

Post 2. I never read the supplements.

[Magnum44]

[Political Junkie Too]

I started with the most common letter and the one-letter word. This got me the sixth word and then the fourth word. The rest flowed from there, except I had to look up the very last word.

-PJ

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I finally found time to do today’s puzzle and was promptly stuck. Probably I’m not running on all cylinders after the crazy day I had. So I peeked at the clues and thanks to Magnum and Lonesome, I took a wild guess at word 2. That made everything else fall into place……. That is, all except word 14. I still have no idea what the 3rd letter in that word is. Nothing makes any sense. Maybe Vladimir Putin knows?????

[Magnum44]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

It could be, but that does not make sense. LOL

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Looked familiar.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Nyet. Is dacha, da?