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 08/13/2022 4:32:06 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

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

If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.

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2 posted on 08/13/2022 4:32:46 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Previous puzzle Friday, August 12, 2022

YEWV WAJ HVLEWUYEO Y BV WV CVOJ HI HYEG UEG TYEG HI OVLC. —XVAE HLYN —GZGQCF

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

INTO THE MOUNTAINS I GO TO LOSE MY MIND AND FIND MY SOUL. —JOHN MUIR

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 08/13/2022 4:35:32 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

There are billions and billions of possibilities.

4 posted on 08/13/2022 4:43:04 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Spoiler Alert: Full Quote in Context

5 posted on 08/13/2022 4:46:08 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

You realize, I hope, that you are quoting Johnny Carson, not today’s author.

6 posted on 08/13/2022 4:47:31 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

7 posted on 08/13/2022 4:49:32 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

8 posted on 08/13/2022 5:09:49 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

9 posted on 08/13/2022 5:11:03 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

10 posted on 08/13/2022 5:36:51 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

11 posted on 08/13/2022 5:37:44 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

12 posted on 08/13/2022 5:51:11 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

13 posted on 08/13/2022 6:24:54 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

14 posted on 08/13/2022 6:31:26 AM PDT by scrabblehack

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

15 posted on 08/13/2022 10:58:41 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

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