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 01/19/2023 7:06:11 AM PST by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Gazette

5 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
1 minute you’re in another universe

2 posted on 01/19/2023 7:08:42 AM PST by nikos1121

But did you have fish for dinner?

3 posted on 01/19/2023 7:12:35 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

OK, you win the thread.

4 posted on 01/19/2023 7:21:54 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))

5 posted on 01/19/2023 7:23:11 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))

To: grey_whiskers

6 posted on 01/19/2023 9:26:22 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

7 posted on 01/19/2023 9:28:18 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

To: grey_whiskers

S.B Eddington’s Arrow?

8 posted on 01/19/2023 9:28:47 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

___ ____ like an arrow. Fruit ___ like a banana.

9 posted on 01/19/2023 12:39:19 PM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))

To: grey_whiskers

10 posted on 01/19/2023 12:41:38 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

To: grey_whiskers

Thanks, grey_whiskers.

11 posted on 01/19/2023 1:16:37 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

Previous puzzle Wednesday, January 18, 2023

USP NWT VPBX OX UOZP YCOPX. USP RHHT VPBX OX GHL’DP USP JOCHU. —ZOKSWPC WCUXSLCPD

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

THE BAD NEWS IS TIME FLIES. THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU’RE THE PILOT. —MICHAEL ALTSHULER

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

12 posted on 01/20/2023 3:26:26 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

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