Today’s Cryptogram

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

QICISK KAI IYZV LN "SVZTWKI SAWRFI" WRH SIVIGQWKI KAI CLP LN VZNI LR IWQKA. — TZSAWIV OWVEA

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

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.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Enjoy today’s cryptogram and have a MARVELOUS MONDAY

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Psalms 100:1

[Apparatchik]

[ComputerGuy]

Just say no.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Saturday January 6, 2024

ZFX XHYECBF BRXDTCHY MKOEV PDU QX VCNCVXV CHZK:

(1) ZFKBX MFK HXCZFXO THKM HKO LDOX MFDZ D BRECZ CHICHCZCNX CB;
(2) ZFKBX MFK VK HKZ THKM, QGZ LDOX NXOU PGLF;
(3) ZFKBX MFK THKM DHV LKHVXPH;
(4) ZFKBX MFK THKM DHV DRROKNX; DHV
(5) ZFKBX MFK THKM DHV VCBZCHYGCBF.

ZFKBX MFK HXCZFXO THKM HKO LDOX DOX ZFX NDBZ PDSKOCZU DHV DOX D FDRRU IKET, ZK QX XHNCXV QU PKBZ KI ZFX PCHKOCZU LEDBBXB.

- F. M. IKMEXO, PKVXOH XHYECBF GBDYX (1926)

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

The English speaking world may be divided into

(1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is;
(2) those who do not know, but care very much;
(3) those who know and condemn;
(4) those who know and approve; and
(5) those who know and distinguish.

Those who neither know nor care are the vast majority and are a happy folk, to be envied by most of the minority classes.

- H. W. Fowler, Modern English Usage (1926)

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Sometimes better phrased: When Al Gore was born there were 7000 polar bears in the Artic. Today, only 26,000 remain.

[Baldwin77]

[Steven Tyler]

Every April 22, from 6pm to 8pm
I turn on everything powered by electricity. I even turn on the clothes dryer and let it run empty.

[Magnum44]

[manna]

Thanks.