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 04/25/2022 3:59:32 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 04/25/2022 4:00:16 AM PDT by nikos1121

This one looked hard at first glance. Then I spotted WXBXL which you will recognize. That gave away the authors “last name”. And as Nikos says, “we are off to the races!”

3 posted on 04/25/2022 4:14:32 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

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

4 posted on 04/25/2022 4:18:14 AM PDT by nikos1121

5 posted on 04/25/2022 4:21:51 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

6 posted on 04/25/2022 4:33:19 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)

7 posted on 04/25/2022 5:17:14 AM PDT by nikos1121

I’m seriously with you!!!!

8 posted on 04/25/2022 8:20:24 AM PDT by Stars&StripesNE

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

Previous puzzle Sunday, 4/24/2022

OZCC ORM FZZA WZMYBJFZW RM R QVYDZU ZWJUJVA VP YOJYRLV. — RMOCZI GVAURLN

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

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago. — Ashley Montagu Kurt Vonnegut

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

9 posted on 04/25/2022 3:49:33 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

ROFL. You win the thread.

10 posted on 04/25/2022 4:09:34 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)

Still faster than capital punishment as practiced in the United States.

11 posted on 04/25/2022 4:16:30 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

12 posted on 04/26/2022 9:27:05 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop ("There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration” - Pompeo)

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