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 07/01/2022 2:52:56 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 07/01/2022 2:53:28 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

Previous puzzle Thursday, 6/30/2022

LQB DBIFMVBB EA QEGBT IEBK GEL NEGNBVG LQB SBB; W NHEJBV, WGTLFZB, LE QFZ, FK WVFKLENVWNT. —BZFHT IFNXFGKEG

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

IXA QYXBV INN HLYQ NJOVNYXVQQ BIX XJH ZV LVIOVX, Y SXJC YX PM LVIKH YH YQ FTXV. —IZZI CJJNQJX

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 07/01/2022 3:03:32 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Oh, yeah? I happen to have FMKRWMBB FPBVWMA right here and he says that your full of $kit.

4 posted on 07/01/2022 3:09:51 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

5 posted on 07/01/2022 3:44:59 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

I’m stuck between large and small.

6 posted on 07/01/2022 3:59:14 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

Who’s the captain?

7 posted on 07/01/2022 4:36:39 AM PDT by scrabblehack

How does this quote explain the Kennedy’s, who get up at the crack of 11 to start their day.....

8 posted on 07/01/2022 4:52:38 AM PDT by Steven Tyler

To: scrabblehack; nikos1121

Yeah, like who’s driving this train wreck?

9 posted on 07/01/2022 5:04:06 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

I see what you did there. Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

10 posted on 07/01/2022 5:06:39 AM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

11 posted on 07/01/2022 6:00:53 AM PDT by stormhill

12 posted on 07/01/2022 6:09:11 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

The solution is cryptic.

13 posted on 07/01/2022 6:40:41 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

To: scrabblehack

God is the captain for sure. Question is, who is the co-Pilot?

14 posted on 07/01/2022 6:58:10 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

15 posted on 07/01/2022 7:11:25 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

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