Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

GMBGN SJ, XIXMVCFX SJ KCSFK GC NBMG VCB. VCB WBJG KCG GC ASFP GNX CFXJ TCMGN JBAAXMSFK ACM. —LCL HOMDXV

[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

[Political Junkie Too]

About three minutes. I found the most common word, which got me the first word. That got me the third word and the rest of the puzzle, mon.

-PJ

[Apparatchik]

Same here, but don’ worry.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Kind of a downer message in this CG ….. but hey, Let’s get together and feel all right

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Two's Day 2/22/22

SZCDAF QUD’S SOWD OX CD SZCF IUWGQ ODSCG FUPKHUQT SOWDF SZKP OX. —LYPKF Y. AYWBCKGQ

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

THINGS DON’T TURN UP IN THIS WORLD UNTIL SOMEBODY TURNS THEM UP. —JAMES A. GARFIELD

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[ComputerGuy]

Hey Mon, we be jammin’

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

1:49.56, without getting the author. Less if I didn’t spend time trying to figure out the author.

[Magnum44]

[penguinhunter]

2:15 seconds
Should have been quicker but I got stuck on the author.
Gave myself a slap on the head when I finally got it.

[absalom01]

Thanks Mon.

Got off to a false start, but den I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Trenchtown, solving the daily cryptogram, and it was alright.

[Roccus]

Pick your battles.

[Moltke]

I would have attributed this to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch...

[Moltke]

Started (correctly) with VCB - how many words are likely to end one sentence of a quote and begin the next?