[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]

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

TREAT A MAN AS HE IS, AND HE WILL REMAIN AS HE IS. TREAT A MAN AS HE COULD BE, AND HE WILL BECOME AS HE SHOULD BE. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

[Magnum44]

[xrmusn]

Tricky but actually simple.

Author seems ‘hard headed’ - well - set in ways....

[ComputerGuy]

Author’s first and middle names solved themselves.

[Alberta's Child]

This was a good one. Took me about three minutes — and I got the name first due to the double letter patterns.

[Jonah Hex]

About 4 minutes.

[SolidRedState]

Took a shot at the short words and author was evident, from there it was fill in the blanks.

Under a minute.