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.

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 05/05/2020 4:16:54 AM PDT by nikos1121

To: alicewonders; A_perfect_lady; AloneInMass; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; ...

Solution to our last puzzle:

EDUCATION IS THE PREMISE OF PROGRESS, IN EVERY SOCIETY, IN EVERY FAMILY. KOFI ANNAN

2 posted on 05/05/2020 4:18:06 AM PDT by nikos1121

3 posted on 05/05/2020 4:35:38 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - Aeneas to his fellow shipwrecked refugees)

2 min.
3rd and 4th word, grammatically 1st word, 2nd word...
I didn’t do it that way but I should have.

4 posted on 05/05/2020 4:43:21 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)

To: grey_whiskers

I took a stab at the ending -QLR and it gradually fell into place. One of the harder ones, in my experience.

5 posted on 05/05/2020 4:51:59 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - Aeneas to his fellow shipwrecked refugees)

Wild guesses on short words, then the fifth.

Is that a BOM in your headline, or are you just happy to see me?

6 posted on 05/05/2020 4:58:42 AM PDT by cartan

To: grey_whiskers

Took me about 4 minutes in between answering a text from my mom....

7 posted on 05/05/2020 5:06:46 AM PDT by southernindymom ( IT)

8 posted on 05/05/2020 5:22:17 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)

About 5 minutes. A little slow this morning...

9 posted on 05/05/2020 5:48:04 AM PDT by Jonah Hex

I see what he did there...

10 posted on 05/05/2020 7:17:45 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)

To: grey_whiskers

11 posted on 05/05/2020 8:57:14 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)

Had to start over several times but finally got it after about 12 minutes!

12 posted on 05/05/2020 11:09:38 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)

Got it in a few minutes but kept thinking “that can’t possibly be right...”

13 posted on 05/05/2020 3:33:48 PM PDT by pinkandgreenmom

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