[nikos1121]

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.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Wednesday 3/9/22

YTN KCQ E INN EY, EP QAV KCHY YTN OCEHBAK, QAV ZAYYC UVY VU KEYT YTN OCEH. —JAGGQ UCOYAH

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

THE WAY I SEE IT, IF YOU WANT THE RAINBOW, YOU GOTTA PUT UP WITH THE RAIN. —DOLLY PARTON

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[nikos1121]

Apologizing, in advance, for posting a quote from this @ssh*le.

From The Arkansas Gazette

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

2:27.94

[Magnum44]

I’m old enough to remember when the author was actually funny.

[Political Junkie Too]

About four minutes. I had to move some letters around. I started with the two-letter contraction, and then played around with the first two words, adding the most common letter and most common word into the mix. The puzzle opened up after that.

-PJ