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 05/08/2021 4:32:09 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

WE HAVE A QUICK ONE TODAY.

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

2 posted on 05/08/2021 4:34:03 AM PDT by nikos1121

3 posted on 05/08/2021 4:35:31 AM PDT by nikos1121

About 2 minutes. Great movie.

4 posted on 05/08/2021 4:49:41 AM PDT by freedom1st (Build the Wall)

5 posted on 05/08/2021 4:50:07 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory

Just over 1 minute.
Most of the 1st contraction (skip the 4th letter)
5th word
Finish the 1st contraction
2nd contraction
Off to the races, fire at Will, Gridley.
(”But what did Will do to us?”)

6 posted on 05/08/2021 5:16:57 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)

or the more classical version...

7 posted on 05/08/2021 5:22:50 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

8 posted on 05/08/2021 5:29:43 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

9 posted on 05/08/2021 5:33:36 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

Previous puzzle Friday 5/7/2021:

FA YVA QMAQRM AF MZUYE ZUM ZRPBM, ZFS PY’X NAY YA TM YEZY VZW PF JOXPI AU PY PXF’Y JOXPI. —TPRRPM EARPSZW

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

NO TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE ALIKE, AND IT’S GOT TO BE THAT WAY IN MUSIC OR IT ISN’T MUSIC. —BILLIE HOLIDAY

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

10 posted on 05/08/2021 5:58:05 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

1:40.99

I wish I could do this for a living. Sometimes work does feel like play, sometimes it feels like torture. (I am an engineer.)

11 posted on 05/08/2021 6:09:05 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

12 posted on 05/08/2021 7:54:33 AM PDT by Stars&StripesNE

Under 5.

I’m getting better

13 posted on 05/08/2021 8:22:01 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (I wiy)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

14 posted on 05/10/2021 12:59:27 AM PDT by cartan

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