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 02/26/2021 12:31:42 AM PST by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

3 minutes good
2minutes excellent
90 seconds exceptional

2 posted on 02/26/2021 12:33:33 AM PST by nikos1121 ( )

Author's name helped.

3 posted on 02/26/2021 1:51:40 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

Nice and quick. Clever author.

4 posted on 02/26/2021 3:37:39 AM PST by cartan

Previous puzzle 2/25/2021:

OHEHEUHO YXX ADTGIM YOH ZRMMTUXH QRO ADRMH CDR UHXTHWH. —IYTX SHWHOM

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

REMEMBER ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE. —GAIL DEVERS

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

5 posted on 02/26/2021 3:41:24 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

6 posted on 02/26/2021 4:36:21 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

Don’t let your mouth write a check your @$$ can’t cash.
- Geraldine Jones

7 posted on 02/26/2021 5:42:16 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

Between 90 sec - 2 min.
Most common letter; guess wrong at 3rd word.
Keep most common letter, get 10th word of 1 letter which gives third word.
5th word from the end, 5 letters, then the word after it.

That’s a good start.

8 posted on 02/26/2021 7:53:34 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)

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