[nikos1121]

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.

[nikos1121]

From The Arkansas Gazette

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

[Magnum44]

I guess I could have used Helen Reddy as well

[RC one]

My mother would like this one.

[CovenBuster]

Here’s an extra puzzle today for my fellow cryptogram-aholics. I have no way to assess how many minutes would qualify as good, excellent, exceptional or superior. (I never time myself because I do them for fun and often multitask while working them.) If you enjoy working them against the clock, feel free to post your times. I’ll post the solution (in yellow) on tomorrow’s cryptogram thread. Enjoy!

P QUT U QUT SXTM PM UVEUMQUQ ILUI TUQ ILZ JUQIZQI QUT P ZFZV QUT QUT. PJ KXH’FZ AXI U QUT ILUI BUM QUT UQ JUQI UQ ILZ QUT P QUT QUT SXTM PM UVEUMQUQ, P’S DPEZ IX QZZ KXHV QUT QUT. WHI P WZI KXHV QUT BUM’I QUT UQ JUQI UQ ILZ QUT P QUT QUT SXTM PM UVEUMQUQ, ‘BUHQZ ILZ QUT P QUT QUT SXTM PM UVEUMQUQ PQ ILZ JUQIZQI QUT P ZFZV QUT QUT!
—UMXMKOXHQ

Clue: If I were a carpenter

P.S. to enumerated: I read once where you said you sometimes do them in your head. I do the same thing at times, but it really requires focus. Let me know if you do this one in your head. Pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to, but I’m up in years and my brain’s database is pretty full. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

Thanks, nikos1121, for allowing me to post this!