Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

YG FMB UQS AMPSWH CSRUBWS AMPSWHF

YW HAS CSWH DMKYRF, HASP FMBQ

AMPSWHF YW RMQQBDH. —IQ. QMCSQH UPHAMPF

[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

SOLVE IT LINE BY LINE!!!!!!

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

[MustKnowHistory]

Pretty quick. HAS comes to the rescue.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

This one was very fast…. And I PROMISE that I’m telling the truth!

[nikos1121]

[tnlibertarian]

And I PROMISE that I’m telling the truth!

Yes, but why?

[nikos1121]

Ha!

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

You asked me why? If I was the author, I would say, “certainly not because that is the right thing to do. Because I am a very super intelligent professional with a degree I just know how to manipulate how others think and I do it all day long, and I’m famous even if you have never heard about me.”

Personally I think the author is crazy.

[MustKnowHistory]

Doing the right thing is good enough. Your motives in doing so are irrelevant.

[Magnum44]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

” Doing the right thing is good enough.….”

Exactly right!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Wednesday 1/12/2022

GCA WQAZG ZQG GM SAZQK BVJC PF GM VKTAQGZHA Z SPGGSA ZG Z GPBA. —RMCK SMJHA

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

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

THE GREAT ART TO LEARN MUCH IS TO UNDERTAKE A LITTLE AT A TIME. —JOHN LOCKE

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[Political Junkie Too]

Easy one. The author's prefix should be obvious, so find the most common letter and most common word and the rest will follow.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Spoiler in the debate -- please highlight below with the cursor to reveal if you want to see my rebuttal.

I think the author is saying that if one chooses to be honest because "honesty is the best policy," the person made a trade-off decision between reasons to be honest or not honest.

Simply being honest as a matter of doing the right thing removes the trade-off decision because there is no "best" policy to find, just the "only" policy to do.

-PJ

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I have to admit that I was so wrong about this one. In solving the CG, I used Dr. instead of Mr. and not ever having heard of this author, I looked up Dr. Robert Anthony and found him to be a self-righteous liberal Psychologist. Thus my comments and conclusion that the author is crazy.

This morning (Friday), seeing PJ’s comment to me I went to check the answer to the CG and see that it is Mr. not Dr. so I googled the wrong author yesterday. sorry guys, y’all probably think it is me who is crazy.

[Political Junkie Too]

It is the Dr. psychologist whom you googled, but I can see the point that he's making. It's still fortune-cookie platitudes, but I can see his point that people who come by honesty naturally are better than people who treat honesty as situational ethics, on a case by case (or policy by policy) basis.

-PJ