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.

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

1 posted on 07/28/2023 2:47:06 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim

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

From “Quotations with an Attitude” - A Wickedly Funny Source Book by Roy L. Stewert

2 posted on 07/28/2023 2:53:36 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

That’s no chickadee.

3 posted on 07/28/2023 3:03:48 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

Previous puzzle Thursday, July 27, 2023

WXNXNYXW BJVI SAX LVIEBLS VD XFLA EXJXIEP SAX DFSX VD FCC. —FCXRFIEXW SAX MWXFS

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

REMEMBER UPON THE CONDUCT OF EACH DEPENDS THE FATE OF ALL. —ALEXANDER THE GREAT

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

4 posted on 07/28/2023 3:11:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

MDWCPHM with the tide?

5 posted on 07/28/2023 3:15:48 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

There’s an Ethiopian in the fuel supply.

6 posted on 07/28/2023 3:16:24 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

The short ones are always trouble, as is the author.

7 posted on 07/28/2023 4:50:24 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

And, of course, the obvious clue that I won't post:

8 posted on 07/28/2023 4:54:14 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

9 posted on 07/28/2023 5:20:43 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: FroggyTheGremlim

10 posted on 07/28/2023 8:41:03 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

There’s an Ethiopian in the fuel supply.

That went way over my head.

11 posted on 07/28/2023 12:58:25 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

Line by W.C. Fields in My Little Chickadee.

12 posted on 07/28/2023 8:11:03 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

13 posted on 07/29/2023 3:40:29 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

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