[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 archives.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Saturday 7/17/2021:

XFSQUFW, YLSV, YLS XMYW MK VTY Q XTVXUSYS ZRVBFS, MY MK Q LRPQV OTT. —ESKPTVE PTUUMK

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

CLEARLY, THEN, THE CITY IS NOT A CONCRETE JUNGLE, IT IS A HUMAN ZOO. —DESMOND MORRIS

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

3:38.03 Had me baffled until I tried the obvious with XDL and XQ.

[Stars&StripesNE]

Under two minutes

[Magnum44]

[Political Junkie Too]

This was hard! It took me hours to figure it out.

I finally got the right vowel for the two-letter words, and then finding the right first letter and the common letter got me the sixth and ninth words. The rest opened up after that.

-PJ

[scrabblehack]

So women get it right?