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 02/17/2023 3:08:07 AM PST by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Gazette

5 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
1 minute or less IS AMAZINGLY GOOD

2 posted on 02/17/2023 3:09:14 AM PST by nikos1121

3 posted on 02/17/2023 3:18:23 AM PST by nikos1121

4 posted on 02/17/2023 3:46:43 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

The quote may have been true when written, but in today’s world, in might have gone ‘out of fashion’.

Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.

5 posted on 02/17/2023 3:57:16 AM PST by SouthWall (Today, "I think you are wrong." equals Hate Speech.)

Lady Godiva?

The Emporer?

6 posted on 02/17/2023 3:58:01 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

7 posted on 02/17/2023 3:58:48 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

Probably true in his day. Kim Kardashian might disagree, today.

8 posted on 02/17/2023 4:00:13 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

9 posted on 02/17/2023 4:09:38 AM PST by scrabblehack

Previous puzzle Thurssday, February 16, 2023

VDFCT IYJZIFFIF LBHL KBCTB THWWUL MI FHCO HWO UW KBCTB CL CF CVJUFFCMXI LU MI FCXIWL. —GCTLUZ BDQU

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

MUSIC EXPRESSES THAT WHICH CANNOT BE SAID AND ON WHICH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE SILENT. —VICTOR HUGO

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10 posted on 02/17/2023 4:14:28 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

11 posted on 02/17/2023 4:50:46 AM PST by Baldwin77 (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -Tacitus)

12 posted on 02/17/2023 4:53:59 AM PST by Steven Tyler

But Sometimes LNM EDF EDJMQ LNM OHGLNMQ.

13 posted on 02/17/2023 5:26:51 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

14 posted on 02/17/2023 5:39:03 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

I feel pretty, I feel pretty, and witty and bright!
And I pity any binary who isn't me todnight!

15 posted on 02/17/2023 6:03:17 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

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