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.

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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.

1 posted on 01/31/2022 3:15:07 AM PST by nikos1121

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

From The Arkansas Gazette

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

2 posted on 01/31/2022 3:16:01 AM PST by nikos1121

Quick one this morning.

Sigh, I’m feeling old.

3 posted on 01/31/2022 3:32:25 AM PST by SouthWall (Today, "I think you are wrong." equals Hate Speech.)

I’m so old that everyone is beginning to look alike.

4 posted on 01/31/2022 3:39:33 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

The old man used to have one of his cars.

5 posted on 01/31/2022 3:46:30 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

Wonder how many Boomers were conceived in them... to the sound of, swish-swish...swish-swish...swish-swish.

6 posted on 01/31/2022 4:47:23 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)

As fast as I could type. I started with the last letter after the contraction, and the rest flowed from there.

-PJ

7 posted on 01/31/2022 5:13:31 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

8 posted on 01/31/2022 5:24:20 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

Some had fold-down seats.

9 posted on 01/31/2022 6:32:47 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

10 posted on 01/31/2022 6:50:26 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)

Did you ever think of doing stand up for a night job?

11 posted on 01/31/2022 10:36:00 AM PST by nikos1121

I already have a night job...

12 posted on 01/31/2022 10:46:00 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

Previous puzzle Sunday 1/30/2022

A ZP QPV VXAQM A XUTG UQD JQNXUBAVUSFG WBGIJZANG UKUAQRV VXG BUVVFGRQUMG, RVAFF, A RXPJFZ QPV FAMG VP SG PQG. ― XGBLUQ LGFTAFFG

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

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one. ― Herman Melville

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13 posted on 01/31/2022 4:05:46 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

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