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 09/15/2021 6:45:24 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 09/15/2021 6:46:53 AM PDT by nikos1121

Previous puzzle Tuesday 9/14/2021

VGP IXDFY, VGP UPKIXPE, VGP WPG KGY VGP LVVN IKG IXKGAP UXP BVEFY. —ZKFKFK CVRTKQOKD

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

ONE CHILD, ONE TEACHER, ONE PEN AND ONE BOOK CAN CHANGE THE WORLD. —MALALA YOUSAFZAI

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 09/15/2021 6:47:20 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

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

4 posted on 09/15/2021 6:55:47 AM PDT by nikos1121

1:44.78 Completed the author at 1:32.22 while doing the puzzle, completed the puzzle 12.56 seconds later.

5 posted on 09/15/2021 6:56:54 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

90 sec.
1st and 2nd words.
7th word.
9th word.
4th word.
Author’s name.
Mopping up.

6 posted on 09/15/2021 7:00:45 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ((The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.))

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Did you *have* to post Nancy Pelosi’s picture on a cryptogram thread?

7 posted on 09/15/2021 7:01:31 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ((The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.))

8 posted on 09/15/2021 7:07:49 AM PDT by Stars&StripesNE

First two words + PWOP...40 secs.

9 posted on 09/15/2021 8:05:51 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)

10 posted on 09/15/2021 8:33:46 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

One minute. Got the first two words, and the rest was easy.

-PJ

11 posted on 09/15/2021 10:05:16 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

It took me an embarrassingly long time to get the tenth word.

12 posted on 09/15/2021 3:53:08 PM PDT by enumerated

To: grey_whiskers

13 posted on 09/15/2021 4:38:14 PM PDT by nikos1121

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