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 08/10/2021 7:17:48 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

From the Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Solve it in

4 minutes is good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
90 seconds amazing

2 posted on 08/10/2021 7:19:10 AM PDT by nikos1121

3 posted on 08/10/2021 7:21:13 AM PDT by nikos1121

4 posted on 08/10/2021 7:23:15 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

Sounds self-contradictory but makes sense at the same time. Is that a paradox?

5 posted on 08/10/2021 7:32:41 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)

6 posted on 08/10/2021 7:37:34 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

Yep, minute and a half or so.

7 posted on 08/10/2021 7:55:03 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)

I got the first three words and the rest came easily after that.

-PJ

8 posted on 08/10/2021 8:36:16 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

Previous puzzle Monday 8/9/2021

LNXY ND OX AZRG YN QG YEZTXMIZTYGW, IJPG Z YEGG, QGDNEG HG QINXXNL. —INOJXG TGRGIXNT

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

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

9 posted on 08/10/2021 9:44:46 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

Sounds self-contradictory but makes sense at the same time. Is that a paradox?

More a metaphor.

10 posted on 08/10/2021 9:47:10 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

1:06.35 Just typing after the first two words.

11 posted on 08/10/2021 9:47:56 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

12 posted on 08/10/2021 9:48:16 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

First few words. It all fell into place.

13 posted on 08/10/2021 9:56:42 AM PDT by Stars&StripesNE

Fifth word confused me. Never seen it before.

14 posted on 08/10/2021 1:02:15 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)

To: doorgunner69

Hadn’t seen that word in years. It threw me.

15 posted on 08/10/2021 1:29:46 PM PDT by penguinhunter

"AZHSZWUW. Now there's a word I haven't heard for quite some time."

16 posted on 08/10/2021 4:57:47 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)

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