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 04/05/2022 4:52:53 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 04/05/2022 4:53:24 AM PDT by nikos1121

To: Magnum44; 1_Rain_Drop; Apple Pan Dowdy; ComputerGuy

Pretty easy peasy one today folks.......where you don't need any clue...

3 posted on 04/05/2022 4:58:41 AM PDT by nikos1121

I prefer God’s IRWGRL.

4 posted on 04/05/2022 5:02:30 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

Why post on FR the transcript from a Biden speech? LOL

5 posted on 04/05/2022 5:07:34 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)

Cute clue. Given the shortness of the quote I thought it would be more difficult.

6 posted on 04/05/2022 5:19:35 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory

7 posted on 04/05/2022 5:44:50 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

To: Tell It Right

8 posted on 04/05/2022 6:02:35 AM PDT by nikos1121

To: MustKnowHistory

One of these quotes were after putting in just a couple letters you get the authors name and then you’re off to the races

9 posted on 04/05/2022 6:03:12 AM PDT by nikos1121

A lot of cute gif clues out there…..

10 posted on 04/05/2022 6:04:06 AM PDT by nikos1121

About two minutes. I started with the two one-letter words, then added the letter after the apostrophe. Then I added the most common letter and most common word, and that opened up the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

11 posted on 04/05/2022 6:28:43 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

Timmy fell down a well?

12 posted on 04/05/2022 6:32:21 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)

To: Tell It Right

Wrong guy. Gentlemen don’t bite Secret Service agents.

13 posted on 04/05/2022 6:49:47 AM PDT by Stars&StripesNE

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

Previous puzzle Monday, 4/4/2022

ZD RGF JGK’U CUZYT UG RGFE OVNFSC XLSK ULSR’ES QSZKI USCUSJ, ULSR’ES KGU OVNFSC; ULSR’ES LGQQZSC. —PGK CUSXVEU

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

IF YOU DON’T STICK TO YOUR VALUES WHEN THEY’RE BEING TESTED, THEY’RE NOT VALUES; THEY’RE HOBBIES. —JON STEWART

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

14 posted on 04/05/2022 4:50:09 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

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