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 06/25/2023 6:49:56 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.

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

2 posted on 06/25/2023 6:50:35 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Destruction

3 posted on 06/25/2023 6:53:10 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 06/25/2023 6:54:19 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

What is Biden speak, Alex?

5 posted on 06/25/2023 7:04:36 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

The modern day evil equivalent

6 posted on 06/25/2023 7:06:04 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

And here we are.......

🛐🙏✝️

7 posted on 06/25/2023 7:44:51 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: Lonesome in Massachussets

8 posted on 06/25/2023 9:35:23 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

Qualis artifex pereo!

9 posted on 06/25/2023 9:54:46 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

The Author is certainly not a Lesser Ape. How’s that for an obscure clue?

Swordmaker

Oh, time to solve took about two minutes due to the size of the Cryptoquote and time to fill in letters.

10 posted on 06/25/2023 10:45:05 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigots!)

I decline and fall to comment.

11 posted on 06/25/2023 11:49:18 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

90 seconds.

I thought it was going to be hard.

12 posted on 06/25/2023 2:56:07 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

A sad commentary on 21st century America.

13 posted on 06/25/2023 2:57:45 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

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