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 03/22/2023 5:11:14 AM PDT 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 or less is off the chart

2 posted on 03/22/2023 5:15:08 AM PDT by nikos1121

I had to look her up, and then I was like “Oh right!! I remember those!”

3 posted on 03/22/2023 5:19:57 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)

Another version of Don’t Look Back.

4 posted on 03/22/2023 5:20:56 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

First rule of Italian driving.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjGXn249Fc0

5 posted on 03/22/2023 5:32:51 AM PDT by Steven Tyler

6 posted on 03/22/2023 5:33:25 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

Or, don’t put off till tomorrow what you should/could do today !

7 posted on 03/22/2023 5:35:30 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -Tacitus)

Thank you for the uplifting message. Really gives me happy feet to start my day....

8 posted on 03/22/2023 5:35:52 AM PDT by nikos1121

9 posted on 03/22/2023 5:35:57 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

You so win the thread!

10 posted on 03/22/2023 5:46:03 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)

11 posted on 03/22/2023 5:53:08 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

I wish I had been better at that.

12 posted on 03/22/2023 6:25:05 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

13 posted on 03/22/2023 8:01:21 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)

14 posted on 03/22/2023 10:25:05 AM PDT by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)

15 posted on 03/22/2023 10:45:43 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

Previous puzzle Tuesday, March 21, 2023

CSL FYPXA PM FXLNC TLO DSPEYH NYVNAD KL TLNDEXLH KA CSL TLNOD CSLA SNQL EDLH CP NGZEJXL JC. — MXNOGPJD HL YN XPGSLMPEGNEYH

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

THE GLORY OF GREAT MEN SHOULD ALWAYS BE MEASURED BY THE MEANS THEY HAVE USED TO ACQUIRE IT. — FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

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16 posted on 03/23/2023 4:18:26 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

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