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 06/02/2022 1:56:29 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 06/02/2022 1:57:06 AM PDT by nikos1121

3 posted on 06/02/2022 2:39:41 AM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)

❤️❤️❤️❤️😀❤️❤️❤️❤️

4 posted on 06/02/2022 2:54:35 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

That familiar pattern is not EVERY but close.

5 posted on 06/02/2022 2:55:37 AM PDT by scrabblehack

Previous puzzle Tuesday, 5/31/2022

XKG FGJILJVL FCXGM NV DXL ND DJYJG WICCNDF, RKL ND GNVNDF JYJGM LNEJ OJ WICC. —TXDWKTNKV

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

OUR GREATEST GLORY IS NOT IN NEVER FALLING, BUT IN RISING EVERY TIME WE FALL. —CONFUCIUS

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

6 posted on 06/02/2022 3:16:35 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

To: scrabblehack

Thanks. I was having the hardest time but your clue set me on the trail.

7 posted on 06/02/2022 4:33:53 AM PDT by stormhill

Doesn’t always work though

8 posted on 06/02/2022 5:26:16 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

Wow. Following these threads may have switched on my cryptogram gene. I read that one from start to finish in less than a minute!
Gonna be a good day :)

9 posted on 06/02/2022 5:38:01 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )

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10 posted on 06/03/2022 12:40:54 AM PDT by nikos1121

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