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 10/12/2022 7:46:25 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

A little gem I found while reading Billy Graham’s Daily Devotional

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

2 posted on 10/12/2022 7:49:21 AM PDT by nikos1121

3 posted on 10/12/2022 7:54:43 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

4 posted on 10/12/2022 8:01:24 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)

5 posted on 10/12/2022 8:11:56 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

I love this author. Thinking of the movie “THE HIDDING PLACE”.

6 posted on 10/12/2022 8:17:07 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

If you drop both items mentioned in this cryptogram from the same height in a vacuum, then they will both land at the same time.

So there is nothing to be concerned about if you live life in a vacuum, except of course how you're going to breathe.

7 posted on 10/12/2022 10:03:22 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)

8 posted on 10/12/2022 10:49:39 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

Previous puzzle Tuesday, October 11, 2022

U XWIVQ JASAG NDUJZ HAVV WK O FOJ'P UJNAVVAXNIOV WG FWGOV XDOGOXNAG, UK DA HOP DORUNIOVVB IJKOUNDKIV NW DUP OEEWUJNFAJNP. — JONDOJUAV AFFWJP

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

I COULD NEVER THINK WELL OF A MAN'S INTELLECTUAL OR MORAL CHARACTER, IF HE WAS HABITUALLY UNFAITHFUL TO HIS APPOINTMENTS. — NATHANIEL EMMONS

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

9 posted on 10/12/2022 4:51:07 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

To: who_would_fardels_bear

10 posted on 10/12/2022 10:29:47 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

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