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 02/03/2022 1:12:47 AM PST by nikos1121

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

MAY I SUGGEST THAT TODAY EVERYONE PRINT OUT THE CG ON PAPER, AND SOLVE IT USING A PEN.

From The Arkansas Gazette

3 minutes good
2 minutes excellent
1 1/2 minutes exceptional
60 seconds superior

2 posted on 02/03/2022 1:15:04 AM PST by nikos1121

To: Magnum44; 1_Rain_Drop

3 posted on 02/03/2022 1:20:00 AM PST by nikos1121

I’ll pay $100 for a clue to solve this CG

4 posted on 02/03/2022 1:53:16 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop ("There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration” - Pompeo)

seriously?.3rd and 4th words should start up your engine

5 posted on 02/03/2022 2:02:36 AM PST by nikos1121

About four minutes. I started with the most common letter and the most common word. I then worked on the double-letter, and that opened up the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

6 posted on 02/03/2022 2:12:29 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

To: 4Liberty; A_perfect_lady; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; babyfreep; ..

Previous puzzle Wednesday 2/2/2022

BYQ GNB CPAT YQQMT BYQ NPYMJQM QAQT; BYQ ST QYBPWN IBJ NSR GNB TQUUT. —WQJRHY XJBLQJC

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

ONE WHO BUYS NEEDS ONE HUNDRED EYES; ONE IS ENOUGH FOR HIM WHO SELLS. —GERMAN PROVERB ― Herman Melville

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7 posted on 02/03/2022 3:13:46 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

2:12.84, with help from HAL.

8 posted on 02/03/2022 3:18:24 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

That was a (failed) joke

9 posted on 02/03/2022 3:50:53 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop ("There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration” - Pompeo)

She should quit moaning and griping and go fly a kite.

10 posted on 02/03/2022 4:58:26 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

11 posted on 02/03/2022 5:10:23 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

I get it!!!! Very good!!!! I’m slow…

12 posted on 02/03/2022 5:17:39 AM PST by nikos1121

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

13 posted on 02/03/2022 5:18:14 AM PST by nikos1121

I’ll pay $100 for a clue to solve this CG

That would be exactly the right price for such a clue.

14 posted on 02/03/2022 6:55:28 AM PST by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)

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