Today’s Cryptogram

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.

1 posted on 10/06/2020 4:53:06 AM PDT by nikos1121

To: alicewonders; A_perfect_lady; AloneInMass; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; ...

Today’s Cryptogram is from The Arkansas Gazette

3 minutes good
2 minutes excellent
1 minute superior

2 posted on 10/06/2020 4:54:31 AM PDT by nikos1121

Word nine opened it up.

3 posted on 10/06/2020 4:58:33 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

4 posted on 10/06/2020 4:59:47 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory

Super quick today. Word nine indeed…

5 posted on 10/06/2020 5:04:50 AM PDT by cartan

Solution to our last puzzle. Simply scroll your cursor over the text while left clicking your mouse, and the words should appear.

WE CANNOT BE SEPARATED IN INTEREST OR DIVIDED IN PURPOSE. WE STAND TOGETHER UNTIL THE END. WOODROW WILSON

6 posted on 10/06/2020 5:09:56 AM PDT by nikos1121

Three minutes. Some false starts, then I just followed my nature...

7 posted on 10/06/2020 5:11:49 AM PDT by Jonah Hex

8 posted on 10/06/2020 5:14:34 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)

Sometimes it’s Donald Trump’s way.

9 posted on 10/06/2020 5:34:19 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)

Third word by inspection, guessed the suffix on the first word....

10 posted on 10/06/2020 6:40:55 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)

3 min spinning my wheels.

Looked at the hint for word 9.

After that, 90 sec.

11 posted on 10/06/2020 6:53:00 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

12 posted on 10/06/2020 6:54:45 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)

I would’ve chosen a different two letter word (NA) for word six...

13 posted on 10/06/2020 7:07:33 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)

To: Moltke; nikos1121

I’m guessing that the author is British? An American would say NA instead of RN.

14 posted on 10/06/2020 7:23:53 AM PDT by scrabblehack

One apparently ‘bad’ word???? (RN)

As to message, maybe if one did ‘better’ wouldn’t have been in the position mentioned....

15 posted on 10/06/2020 1:23:51 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")

I think word 6 is incorrect or that is some strange word use.

16 posted on 10/06/2020 6:46:43 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)

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