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.

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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 10/21/2021 1:51:30 AM PDT by nikos1121

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

From The Arkansas Gazette

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

2 posted on 10/21/2021 1:52:20 AM PDT by nikos1121

Why am I thinking about Bobby Riggs?

3 posted on 10/21/2021 1:58:53 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

Two minutes. I started with the two one-letter words, and then the likely second letter for the two-letter word. That got me the hyphenated word and the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

4 posted on 10/21/2021 2:09:45 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

5 posted on 10/21/2021 2:15:54 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)

6 posted on 10/21/2021 2:33:53 AM PDT by pa_dweller (Let's all go out for ice cream.)

Just get the two single letter words right, and then the author…

7 posted on 10/21/2021 2:57:06 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory

For me.
Coin flip on single letters words
two letter words
common letter.
Then, I “saw” word 3

8 posted on 10/21/2021 4:11:28 AM PDT by Steven Tyler

To: nikos1121; absalom01; alicewonders; A_perfect_lady; AloneInMass; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; ...

Previous puzzle Wednesday 10/20/2021

BG HKN FVJL UVML KG FSL IDVWW FSBCQI, FSL PBQ FSBCQI FVJL UVML KG FSLDILWYLI. —LDBWH ZBUJBCIKC

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

IF YOU TAKE CARE OF THE SMALL THINGS, THE BIG THINGS TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. —EMILY DICKINSON

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9 posted on 10/21/2021 5:10:39 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

2:16.97 Short common words are all it took.

RLFD-KXKMLHLRR up to a point, I suppose.

10 posted on 10/21/2021 5:20:31 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

To: Oscar in Batangas

She might have added ‘Thanks for the Sugar Daddy’
Sorry. Couldn’t help myself.

11 posted on 10/21/2021 5:42:15 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

12 posted on 10/21/2021 5:49:38 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

13 posted on 10/21/2021 5:53:50 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

To: MustKnowHistory

Yup, guessing the single letter words cracked this one.

14 posted on 10/21/2021 10:07:47 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)

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