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 06/03/2023 4:25:43 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

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

If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.

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2 posted on 06/03/2023 4:26:17 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Previous puzzle Friday, June 2th, 2023

AWE CTSFZ AWEK VUSF UFX AWEK TQUKCNKQUZ UKQ EFVKQGQXQFCQX SF CTQ TSYCWKA WJ CTQ BWKOX, NEC CTQF AWE KQUX. —LUPQY NUOXBSF

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

YOU THINK YOUR PAIN AND YOUR HEARTBREAK ARE UNPRECEDENTED IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, BUT THEN YOU READ. —JAMES BALDWIN

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 06/03/2023 4:26:42 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

4 posted on 06/03/2023 4:39:16 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

The weather just perfect, the skies never gray.

5 posted on 06/03/2023 4:40:24 AM PDT by ArtDodger

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

6 posted on 06/03/2023 4:45:24 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (First they came for Trump ...)

Yep. Pretty hot and dry where I live. May was better.

Thanks for posting these!

7 posted on 06/03/2023 4:58:38 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory

8 posted on 06/03/2023 4:59:28 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: MustKnowHistory

I am about 10 miles west of Concord Center, where it makes perfect sense.

9 posted on 06/03/2023 5:00:26 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

10 posted on 06/03/2023 5:57:12 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”

-Nietzsche, of poets.

11 posted on 06/03/2023 6:16:16 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )

I’ve never read any of the author’s work. Not yet, anyway.

12 posted on 06/03/2023 7:02:49 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Thanks, I needed that

13 posted on 06/03/2023 9:11:52 AM PDT by Steven Tyler

Never heard of him/her.

14 posted on 06/03/2023 10:32:22 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

15 posted on 06/03/2023 10:01:13 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

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