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 07/13/2022 4:31:23 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

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2 posted on 07/13/2022 4:32:50 AM PDT by nikos1121

That’ll never happen.

3 posted on 07/13/2022 4:57:46 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)

Your mission, should you choose to accept...

4 posted on 07/13/2022 5:06:04 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

5 posted on 07/13/2022 5:38:00 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

6 posted on 07/13/2022 5:41:40 AM PDT by tnlibertarian

7 posted on 07/13/2022 5:41:42 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

Ok, the cliff pic is obviously fake, but this one has to be real...

🤣

8 posted on 07/13/2022 5:56:07 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

It’s kind of like these cryptograms.

9 posted on 07/13/2022 6:59:38 AM PDT by penguinhunter

10 posted on 07/13/2022 3:55:28 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

4 minutes. I can’t believe it.

11 posted on 07/13/2022 3:56:07 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

Previous puzzle Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Y HBQF WL FTNSXYIH “KWLQBUTI.” FXQI Y AYBKN ZQTBIQV NJ VYGQ, Y FTKI’N VYGYIH; Y FTK AZOYIH, ZYEQ KWLQBUTI. —NJU XYVVZQKNJI

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

I GREW UP WATCHING “SUPERMAN.” WHEN I FIRST LEARNED TO DIVE, I WASN’T DIVING; I WAS FLYING, LIKE SUPERMAN. —TOM HIDDLESTON

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12 posted on 07/13/2022 6:11:37 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

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