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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 08/05/2022 5:06:37 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

Apologies for today’s CG, which is the most inane statement you’ll hear in awhile, and it’s not Kamala.

From The Arkansas Gazette

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

2 posted on 08/05/2022 5:08:23 AM PDT by nikos1121

6 posted on 08/05/2022 5:16:33 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

7 posted on 08/05/2022 5:17:14 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

11 posted on 08/05/2022 5:24:38 AM PDT by Steven Tyler

I quit when I recognized the author. I can’t stand that SOB..

12 posted on 08/05/2022 5:31:16 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (q11)

13 posted on 08/05/2022 5:33:56 AM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)

I just lost two IQ points without even doing drugs.

14 posted on 08/05/2022 5:52:29 AM PDT by stormhill

you didn’t build that.

15 posted on 08/05/2022 6:07:18 AM PDT by scrabblehack

Profound. Sure that wasn’t Kamala Harris?

16 posted on 08/05/2022 6:36:09 AM PDT by enumerated ( )

To: nikos1121; All

What’s with the enemy quotes? First ‘Dr’ Jill, now this ass?

21 posted on 08/05/2022 12:49:45 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)

To: nikos1121; All

What’s with the enemy quotes? First ‘Dr’ Jill, now this ass?

22 posted on 08/05/2022 12:49:45 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)

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