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 10/14/2022 4:40:12 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Gazette

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

Today’s added challenge. If you have never done this before, try printing out the CG and doing it with a pen.

2 posted on 10/14/2022 4:41:53 AM PDT by nikos1121

3 posted on 10/14/2022 4:50:41 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

Didn’t we just do one of these a few hours ago?

4 posted on 10/14/2022 4:56:45 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

Previous puzzle Thursday, October 13, 2022

LOJ SIJHLXMY XHY’L GOM’H UMXYU LM KJL ZJ; XL’H GOM XH UMXYU LM HLMB ZJ. —QEY FQYA

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

THE QUESTION ISN’T WHO’S GOING TO LET ME; IT’S WHO IS GOING TO STOP ME. —AYN RAND

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

5 posted on 10/14/2022 5:03:50 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Ibid

6 posted on 10/14/2022 5:09:40 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

7 posted on 10/14/2022 5:52:22 AM PDT by nikos1121

8 posted on 10/14/2022 6:18:23 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Used to think that way when I was younger.....then I got old.......

9 posted on 10/14/2022 6:21:54 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)

10 posted on 10/14/2022 9:33:15 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)

I don’t agree with the author.

11 posted on 10/14/2022 10:17:33 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I got the quote on that one yesterday, but didn’t get the author. I had to Duck Duck Go the quote to get the author.

12 posted on 10/14/2022 10:20:54 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

#MeToo. < hanging head in shame>

13 posted on 10/14/2022 10:40:06 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

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