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 01/20/2023 5:39:16 AM PST by nikos1121

To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

An inane word puzzle from The Arkansas Gazette

5 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
1 you’re the best there is

2 posted on 01/20/2023 5:41:02 AM PST by nikos1121

3 posted on 01/20/2023 5:42:00 AM PST by nikos1121

Previous puzzle Thursday, January 19, 2023

USP NWT VPBX OX UOZP YCOPX. USP RHHT VPBX OX GHL’DP USP JOCHU. —ZOKSWPC WCUXSLCPD

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

THE BAD NEWS IS TIME FLIES. THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU’RE THE PILOT. —MICHAEL ALTSHULER

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

4 posted on 01/20/2023 5:44:03 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

5 posted on 01/20/2023 5:45:01 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))

To: grey_whiskers

Man he makes Capt. Pike look good.

6 posted on 01/20/2023 5:45:55 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)

Man he makes Capt. Pike look good.

🤣

7 posted on 01/20/2023 5:47:10 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))

"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law." -Voltaire

Got it in 1:44. Words 3 and 9 broke it all loose for me.

8 posted on 01/20/2023 5:51:52 AM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)

This is what wolves do…..

9 posted on 01/20/2023 6:06:50 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

It was the 8th word that broke it for me. Knowing which was the most used word, I guessed that must follow the rule. That then showed the 8th word to be a recognized letter pattern.

10 posted on 01/20/2023 6:10:20 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

11 posted on 01/20/2023 6:21:25 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

12 posted on 01/20/2023 1:35:14 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

Word eight did it for me.

13 posted on 01/20/2023 2:05:15 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

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