Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

WLR WUS JSZW HSGSKZ WMJRZ SO WLR GRQV QVR YLVMZWJQZ JSVPMPA QPB WLR RPB SO ZYLSSE. —QEMYR YSSNRV

[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

From The Arkansas Gazette

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

[nikos1121]

[ComputerGuy]

No smoking.

[nikos1121]

Huh?

[ComputerGuy]

Wrong band. I’m just not hip enough, I guess.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

“More than a feeling” is so right, Nikos……. Espesially today, have a happy one everybody.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Thursday 12/23/2021

XGHLWZKDW LW D WRDWQJ NQH ALJUPLJV ZGR NLHR NQH GQWOLZDPLZI LJ ZGR GDPP, ZGR VRJLDP NPDKR QN XGDHLZI LJ ZGR GRDHZ. —SDWGLJVZQJ LHTLJV

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

CHRISTMAS IS A SEASON FOR KINDLING THE FIRE FOR HOSPITALITY IN THE HALL, THE GENIAL FLAME OF CHARITY IN THE HEART. —WASHINGTON IRVING

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

3:35.47 No great breakthrough. No familiar patterns. I just tried things, assigning the most common letters in English to the most frequently occurring letters in the puzzle, until a pattern appeared. Most common letters:

e 12.70%
t 9.06%
a 8.17%
o 7.51%
i 6.97%
n 6.75%
s 6.33%

[southernindymom]

I remember his song playing the last day my sophomore year....

[southernindymom]

In the boys room.....

[southernindymom]

Another good one

[Magnum44]

[1_Rain_Drop]

Very true quote.

0:55:674
Guessed the first word then wild guessed the fourteenth and the rest just fell into place.

hm. Now I have a particular tune in my head. Can you guess what it is?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Actually, there is a seasonal theme, that should give this one away. I wasn’t alert enough to look for it.

[nikos1121]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBqiC5ox8Bw

Let me guess!

[1_Rain_Drop]

YES!!!!
You made my day! I’m smiling from ear to ear!
Those outfits are so cool! ah the good old days...

[scrabblehack]

I thought he donated one of his O’s to the Hollywood sign.

[Political Junkie Too]

As fast as I could type. I started with the most common letter and the most common word. I took a stab at the third from last word (and was right), which got me the word two words before it. I finished off the three letter words and the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

[Moltke]

...for ever!