Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

OP GIM RECLIH QEC OP PE CIOR, YFP OR EBPEYVC GDE BEFHX QECJVP PDV CIORM EQ EBPEYVC?---ERXNIUO, PDV GDOMPHVC

[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]

5 minutes is good
4 minutes is excellent
3 minutes or less superior

[Political Junkie Too]

Never heard of the author, had to google it.

-PJ

[Apparatchik]

Yay, another obscure, rambling quote by a rambling obscure writer. And not even the full quote.

Fail.

[Baldwin77]

[ComputerGuy]

The skies really opened up at my house. 15-20 inches of liquid sunshine and tornados coming up US401 one after another.

[BlueLancer]

So, what WAS the answer to yesterday’s cryptogram? I never did get it ...

[BlueLancer]

I got it, but ...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle, Thursday, October 2, 2024

LHYGRXY RG TUX ZXD LURYB ZXD GUXDCS OH. EHCNVNLRXY RG TUX ZXD NEH. —WURYHGH AEXPHEO

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

TENSION IS WHO YOU THINK YOU SHOULD BE. RELAXATION IS WHO YOU ARE. —CHINESE PROVERB

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[scrabblehack]

I’m not familiar with the author.
8 letters left...56 possibilities...

[doorgunner69]

had to search for that name

[SaveFerris]

LOL keeper

[Magnum44]

[Magnum44]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I got his freepmail from Apple Pan Dowdy. I am sharing it for your information. I will doing Monday and Tuesday from now on, until Apple is available again. (We lost power for 60 Hours during an ice storm around 2008. But what North Carolina is experiencing is obviously much, much worse.

Jim,

I am in the hard hit area of western NC from the hurricane. No electricity, no water, no internet, and until yesterday we also had no cell phone. I can get 1 bar on cell nowso connection is spotty to say the least. So this is had to get to FReep mail and nearly impossible to post on board. Millions here with no water and power, thousands with no homes left. And several hundred dead.

Our home is fine, no flooding or damage, thank the Lord. We were prepared with a bit of stored food and huge buckets of water filled from the well before the storm hit. And bathtubs full of water to use to flush the toilet. Can’t get water from the well until electricity comes back on. Our only connection to the outside world for a week was a solar power/windup radio.

We have a gas stove to cook on (another blessing). So all and all, our inconvenience is nothing compared to the people further up in the rural hills that are trapped by bridges out, severe flooding, and demolished homes. I hear the helicopters flying in search of people still trapped.

The community has pulled together a lot of resources. FEMA took almost 3 days to arrive to places like Asheville that was hit harder than us. It is going to take years to get back to normal in a lot of places. I hear that in town the grocery stores have no way to take credit cards, Pharmacies are still closed. It’s a mess!

Hubby says he will install a whole house generator as soon as this is over …. Tried to get him to do it for years, this has changed his mind.

Pleas do the Cryptogram post for me till I get internet and power back. Thanks.

[Magnum44]

Thanks for posting. Good to know Apple is ok.

[John4.11]

Thank you so much for posting the info from Apple Pan Dowdy. I have been worried about her and will continue to keep her and her family in prayer.

[lucky american]

Prayers up for you and those who lost everything.
We’re good, you stay safe.

[Baldwin77]

I wondered if Apple was hit by the storm. I have been through flooding from a hurricane when I lived in FL (35 years there). It’s really, really tough. Can’t imagine what she and others are going through. Prayers indeed for her and everyone else.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I lived in Queens in ~1960 when Hurricane Donna hit. The area where I lived used electrical pumps to drain storm sewers. The power was out for about a week and people were rowing down our street in canoes. We got through it.