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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 04/27/2025 5:03:37 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

Please ping us today so we can get an idea on how many are playing.

We should have new members to the 60 and 90 second club.

2 posted on 04/27/2025 5:06:28 AM PDT by nikos1121

Saw the author right away

3 posted on 04/27/2025 5:08:03 AM PDT by zeebee

5 posted on 04/27/2025 5:12:34 AM PDT by nikos1121

“I am lucky to be what I am! Thank
goodness I’m not just a clam or a ham Or a dusty old jar
of sour gooseberry jam! “

6 posted on 04/27/2025 5:17:49 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

7 posted on 04/27/2025 5:18:37 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

The author opened it right up.

10 posted on 04/27/2025 5:25:02 AM PDT by John4.11 (Let your :D faith ROAR so loud that you can't hear what doubt is)

I didn't see the author right away. Instead, I pieced together the four-letter words.

-PJ

12 posted on 04/27/2025 5:34:05 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

13 posted on 04/27/2025 5:36:52 AM PDT by manna

16 posted on 04/27/2025 5:56:14 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)

The author’s name is a giveaway. Everything else falls in place immediately.

18 posted on 04/27/2025 11:36:23 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

Previous puzzle Sunday, April 27, 2025

GSBWF FSZ WOC FSZ! GQWG VP GOZCO GQWH GOZC! GQCOC VP HS SHC WYVRC NQS VP FSZ-CO GQWH FSZ! – BO. PCZPP

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

TODAY YOU ARE YOU! THAT IS TRUER THAN TRUE! THERE IS NO ONE ALIVE WHO IS YOU-ER THAN YOU! – DR. SEUSS

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

21 posted on 04/28/2025 3:27:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

I play every day. Thanks for all that you do

22 posted on 04/28/2025 11:02:03 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)

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