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 02/12/2022 3:23:22 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets

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

If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.

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2 posted on 02/12/2022 3:24:14 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Previous puzzle Friday 2/11/2022

YTJ YVXJ WMDMQMRIYMNP MH KTJVJ JDJVG SIP UMDJH YN JDJVG NYTJV JDJVG VMUTY YTIY TJ WQIMSH LNV TMSHJQL. —VNCJVY MPUJVHNQQ

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

THE TRUE CIVILIZATION IS WHERE EVERY MAN GIVES TO EVERY OTHER EVERY RIGHT THAT HE CLAIMS FOR HIMSELF. —ROBERT INGERSOLL

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3 posted on 02/12/2022 3:24:54 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

First word kinda popped, second word solved it.

4 posted on 02/12/2022 3:29:05 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

This wasn’t so bad. CFB was the key for me.

5 posted on 02/12/2022 3:31:00 AM PST by MustKnowHistory

To: MustKnowHistory

6 posted on 02/12/2022 3:48:12 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

7 posted on 02/12/2022 3:54:47 AM PST by MustKnowHistory

To: MustKnowHistory

LAND HO! This one solved itself.

8 posted on 02/12/2022 4:12:56 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Good one! Thanks for doing these, they make my day

9 posted on 02/12/2022 4:46:02 AM PST by southernindymom

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

The author would....

Or so Washington Irving would have you believe.

10 posted on 02/12/2022 6:03:53 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I thought this would be hard because the puzzle was so short, but it went as fast as I could type. I started with the most common word, and that got me the author, and then the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

11 posted on 02/12/2022 9:43:53 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

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