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 07/19/2023 12:27:41 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

2 posted on 07/19/2023 12:29:02 AM PDT by nikos1121

3 posted on 07/19/2023 1:56:47 AM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)

4 posted on 07/19/2023 2:33:38 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

5 posted on 07/19/2023 2:44:19 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

6 posted on 07/19/2023 2:56:06 AM PDT by BlueLancer (One for all ... All for one ... Every man for himself) (Moe, Larry, and Curley)

Not getting the connection to today’s quote.

7 posted on 07/19/2023 3:03:23 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

The clues did it for me.

8 posted on 07/19/2023 3:04:33 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

Previous puzzle Tuesday, July 18, 2023

HOKNK MNK HONKK ISDPY EL BSKY: BSKY, PMRDKP BSKY, MDP YHMHSYHSUY. — JKDFMRSD PSYNMKBS

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

THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF LIES: LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND STATISTICS. — BENJAMIN DISRAELI

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

9 posted on 07/19/2023 3:08:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

Word 7 threw me off for several minutes.

10 posted on 07/19/2023 3:45:54 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)

11 posted on 07/19/2023 4:37:05 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)

12 posted on 07/19/2023 5:12:41 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

13 posted on 07/19/2023 9:35:04 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

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