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.
If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.
4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior
Tough one today !
Rhyming one today.
Happy Easter.
An aside: The cryptogram is supposed to be fun. Solving it is supposed to be fun. Posting a clue is supposed to be fun. I have been posting humorous clues almost without fail since the day Nikos started the cryptogram thread. Yesterday, in my usual form, I posted a clue to the biblical quote. My well known and often seen on other threads, Monty python clue, intended to be humorous, was censored by mods. I hope that in the future this thread doesn’t become so serious that one can’t have some fun participating.
Again, happy Easter to all. I am going to Easter service now, to ask for forgiveness for my transgressions (and my demented sense of humor)
Neither HFDH nor LWUL is “THAT.”
The author had a certain method about him.