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 03/16/2023 4:47:30 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

From the Aransas Democrat-Gazette

Under 4 minutes is the goal today

2 posted on 03/16/2023 4:48:59 AM PDT by nikos1121

3 posted on 03/16/2023 5:01:39 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

4 posted on 03/16/2023 5:03:45 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

5 posted on 03/16/2023 5:16:11 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

6 posted on 03/16/2023 5:18:36 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

7 posted on 03/16/2023 5:20:39 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

One of the author’s works.

8 posted on 03/16/2023 5:31:38 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Oops! I got the name wrong. Give me a Litella on that one.

9 posted on 03/16/2023 5:39:30 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

10 posted on 03/16/2023 5:56:03 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

11 posted on 03/16/2023 6:29:13 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)

Previous puzzle Tuesday, March 15, 2023

ZQJ XHI L RLTT NLQX
BKJ FLEKB RZFXU, HQX
BKJI RLTT CJ ULPVTJ. —YHOW WJFZSHO

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

ONE DAY I WILL FIND
THE RIGHT WORDS, AND
THEY WILL BE SIMPLE. —JACK KEROUAC

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12 posted on 03/16/2023 7:09:37 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

That came together quite nicely.

As far as the quote, I’m retired now so I am required to be in the former camp.

13 posted on 03/16/2023 1:01:20 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

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