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 02/13/2021 1:23:02 AM PST by nikos1121

To: alicewonders; AloneInMass; Aria; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; capecodder; ...

From The Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional

2 posted on 02/13/2021 1:24:58 AM PST by nikos1121 ( )

Super fast, starting with common letter…

3 posted on 02/13/2021 3:42:28 AM PST by cartan

Pretty easy today. First one I’ve done this week... busy, busy, busy

4 posted on 02/13/2021 4:21:35 AM PST by southernindymom ( )

5 posted on 02/13/2021 4:37:37 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

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

I DESPISE MAKING THE MOST OF ONE’S TIME. HALF OF THE PLEASURES OF LIFE CONSIST OF THE OPPORTUNITIES ONE HAS NEGLECTED.— O. W. HOLMES

6 posted on 02/13/2021 5:50:52 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

7 posted on 02/13/2021 5:58:24 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

1:43.79 Very straightforward.

8 posted on 02/13/2021 6:02:15 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

9 posted on 02/13/2021 6:21:55 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

10 posted on 02/13/2021 7:55:17 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)

0:57
Contraction and a wild guess at the first word reveals the author who obviously lived before typewriters were invented. He probably used an abacus.

11 posted on 02/13/2021 8:10:17 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop ("There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration” - Pompeo)

Love Escher.
He was a total well rounded genius.

12 posted on 02/13/2021 8:13:07 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop ("There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration” - Pompeo)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

:) I’ve never seen that one.

13 posted on 02/13/2021 8:18:34 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

These that just flow like modern speech patterns are a lot easier. Less than two minutes even though I changed the contraction twice.

14 posted on 02/13/2021 10:46:59 AM PST by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)

About 90 sec.

Most common letter, 3rd word, 1st word, 2nd word...

15 posted on 02/13/2021 12:28:13 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)

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