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 05/25/2023 5:12:18 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Democrat Gazette

2 posted on 05/25/2023 5:13:22 AM PDT by nikos1121

To: Lonesome in Massachussets; Magnum44; 1_Rain_Drop; Apple Pan Dowdy; ComputerGuy; A_perfect_lady; ...

3 posted on 05/25/2023 5:15:32 AM PDT by nikos1121

Previous puzzle Wednesday, May 24th, 2023

HTT Z LHU ED ZP KM BM, QRDMSMW ARHA ZP. —KDK EFTHU

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

HTT Z LHU ED ZP KM BM, QRDMSMW ARHA ZP. —KDK EFTHU
All I CAN DO IS BE ME, WHOEVER THAT IS. -BOB DYLAN

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

4 posted on 05/25/2023 5:22:29 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

5 posted on 05/25/2023 5:27:28 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (First they came for Trump ...)

6 posted on 05/25/2023 5:27:48 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

A couple of words threw me there

7 posted on 05/25/2023 5:29:06 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

Don't forget the beer!

8 posted on 05/25/2023 5:33:25 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

9 posted on 05/25/2023 5:49:41 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

I know what you mean …. I kept wanting to put a T after the GH

10 posted on 05/25/2023 6:07:37 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

I still had a couple of letters incorrect

But I figured it out lol

11 posted on 05/25/2023 6:14:02 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

For me, that was the easiest one ever. 30 seconds.

WGY EXY seemed obvious, and everything fell in place after that.

12 posted on 05/25/2023 8:07:50 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

I gotta do it a bit more and look for those combinations

I was trying along those lines at first but more at the beginning

13 posted on 05/25/2023 8:31:21 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

To be honest, when everyone is saying a Cryptogram was easy, I’m scratching my head because I’m not making a bit of progress.

14 posted on 05/25/2023 8:33:28 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

I’m not sure if the author was a carpenter by day or did his act in a restaurant.

15 posted on 05/25/2023 10:05:47 AM PDT by scrabblehack

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