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 06/08/2023 11:00:54 AM PDT by nikos1121

2 posted on 06/08/2023 11:04:35 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

Nik, I really love these, look for them every day.
But you could lose the Shakespeare stuff, that old
English drives me nuts.

3 posted on 06/08/2023 11:05:55 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)

Ribbit. That was my most profound utterance of the day.

4 posted on 06/08/2023 11:19:38 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

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

Previous puzzle Wednesday, June 7th, 2023

MB KV AMBC XFYP’J BZPPV MJ XSZAU WZYJ IC JNZC. FPU JDFJ MY ZPFOOCTJFIAC. —OFNNMC BMYDCN

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

IF MY LIFE WASN’T FUNNY IT WOULD JUST BE TRUE. AND THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE. —CARRIE FISHER

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

5 posted on 06/08/2023 11:49:13 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

Down there June is December

6 posted on 06/08/2023 11:59:01 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

Got it. Have no idea what it means.

7 posted on 06/08/2023 12:10:37 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

AEQQO JYG PVQ GRCQOUQ, JQP JYG PVQ CRAVP. PVQ LDOPV DI FTOQ PEQLKCQX CRWQ Y KTPPQEICH. —MYKCD OQETXY

8 posted on 06/08/2023 2:08:13 PM PDT by Baldwin77 (First they came for Trump ...)

Sounds like “Deep Thoughts from Kermit” to me.

9 posted on 06/08/2023 2:23:12 PM PDT by Baldwin77 (First they came for Trump ...)

Are you on our Ping list?

10 posted on 06/09/2023 3:08:44 AM PDT by nikos1121

I don’t think so; please add me.

11 posted on 06/09/2023 10:05:02 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)

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