Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

IDNLJ R WLFB CQDVA ILPPBQ UQDE VLPTRAC VRIW IWB IQBBY. —TLQPB VRPYDA SLTBQ.

[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. 

   HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

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

[ComputerGuy]

Make mine hickory.

[nikos1121]

Here is the rest of the poem.

The seven sister-poplars who go softly in a line;

And I think my heart is whiter for its parley with a star

That trembled out at nightfall and hung above the pine.

The call-note of a redbird from the cedars in the dusk

Woke his happy mate within me to an answer free and fine;

And a sudden angel beckoned from a column of blue smoke—

Lord, who am I that they should stoop—these holy folk of thine?

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I love the CG quote today……. Because it happens to me every time I look up at the giant Poplars in our forest.

[Stars&StripesNE]

I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a ____.

[scrabblehack]

I’m not familiar with the author - 8 possibilities...but one is a common surname.

A rising tide raises all boats - JFK?

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton.

[Magnum44]

[nikos1121]

Huh?

[nikos1121]

This clue of yours, with all due respect, is like having a Cryptogram on the subject of sand, and you post this for clue:

[Magnum44]

Where’d you get that video of me? 🤣

[Magnum44]

Ok, how about this?

lol

[nikos1121]

from the cryptogram archives

[nikos1121]

Jeeez

[Magnum44]

BTW, how tall is Bigfoot now, anyway? Must be at least 8 ft. Getting bigger all the time 🤣

[Political Junkie Too]

About three minutes. I thought it would be harder because it's such a short puzzle.

I started with the one-letter word, then the most common letter and most common word. That got me the third from last word. I tried a word ending for the fifth word, and that got me the fourth word and the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

[nikos1121]

I think he’s about as big as your head some days…

[Moltke]

Here is the rest of the poem.

Thanks. I must admit I do not care for single line quotes taken from the whole. Without the context they often make no sense at all.

[Moltke]

PS: No ping for the rest of the gang?

[nikos1121]

You’re welcone.

Getting a lot of nice comments on today’s CG. I guess I’ve made up for screw ups earlier this week.

Good news is it’s Friday, an Ole’ Reliable Lonesome in Masachusetts takes over.