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 05/27/2022 5:45:31 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Gazette a question!!!

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

2 posted on 05/27/2022 5:46:37 AM PDT by nikos1121

I knew what the two (repeated) little words side by side had to be, but it wasn’t till I noticed the question mark at the end of the quote that I got those two little words in the correct order. That opened up the rest nicely. I have never heard of the author, but that filled in nicely too.

3 posted on 05/27/2022 5:51:30 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

Previous puzzle Thursday, 5/26/2022

AEC’Z ZYXCZ ZIS YNNBOYZED XCZBN YGZSD MEX’WS VDEJJSA ZIS VDSSL. —AYC DYZISD

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

DON’T TAUNT THE ALLIGATOR UNTIL AFTER YOU’VE CROSSED THE CREEK. —DAN RATHER

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4 posted on 05/27/2022 5:54:35 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

5 posted on 05/27/2022 6:00:29 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

6 posted on 05/27/2022 6:04:15 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

A suggestion I never seem to have the time to employ... ‘though my posting history proves I should.

7 posted on 05/27/2022 6:05:18 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them)

3 min. Got the OH OB but I first had the words switched around.

8 posted on 05/27/2022 7:05:23 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)

To: grey_whiskers

Me two, grey_whiskers. (see post # 2) didn’t realize it till I saw the ? Mark at the end of quote.

9 posted on 05/27/2022 7:18:55 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain.

10 posted on 05/27/2022 7:30:28 AM PDT by scrabblehack

To: grey_whiskers

I went with most common letter, and that gave me the first word, and it just rolled from there.

11 posted on 05/27/2022 7:47:58 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Yes, it opened up the puzzle. Before then I was very puzzled.

12 posted on 05/27/2022 4:48:40 PM PDT by nikos1121

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