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 03/17/2021 3:38:25 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Gazette

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

2 posted on 03/17/2021 3:40:57 AM PDT by nikos1121

Previous puzzle Tuesday 3/16/2021:

NYS MAYJ ECDJS HKFO DFO ZAYP KFSA CWCF MAYJ ZHDPPCZS SDZL. SEKZ KZ SEC ZCBJCS AI ZYBBCZZ. —ZRDHK ZKWDFDFOD

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

PUT YOUR HEART MIND AND SOUL INTO EVEN YOUR SMALLEST TASK. THIS IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. —SWAMI SIVANANDA

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 03/17/2021 3:43:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

4 posted on 03/17/2021 3:45:12 AM PDT by nikos1121

To: nikos1121; All

< 2 minutes; third word

5 posted on 03/17/2021 3:47:25 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Less than a minute. Most common letter, first name of the author, and there it is.

6 posted on 03/17/2021 3:48:08 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory

2:17.78

Science is organized common sense, where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. - Same author

7 posted on 03/17/2021 4:10:25 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)

Easy today - even though I thought it would be something to do with St. Patrick’s Day.

8 posted on 03/17/2021 4:46:45 AM PDT by Stars&StripesNE

2 min or so.

Words 3 and 5 (look at the letters in common); words 9 and 12; off to the races.

9 posted on 03/17/2021 4:51:12 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)

Not so easy. Short words are key…

10 posted on 03/17/2021 5:06:07 AM PDT by cartan

11 posted on 03/17/2021 5:36:41 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

Maybe three minutes. Third word look through the possibilities and if the work on two other words.

12 posted on 03/17/2021 11:27:42 AM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)

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