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.

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1 posted on 09/01/2023 3:47:40 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim

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

Hiya kids, hiya, hiya!

Happy September!

2 posted on 09/01/2023 3:51:38 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

3 posted on 09/01/2023 4:04:06 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

4 posted on 09/01/2023 4:05:52 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

5 posted on 09/01/2023 4:09:26 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

6 posted on 09/01/2023 5:13:49 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

7 posted on 09/01/2023 5:16:31 AM PDT by Steven Tyler

Perfect picture for this quote.

8 posted on 09/01/2023 5:23:58 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

9 posted on 09/01/2023 6:01:35 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

10 posted on 09/01/2023 6:42:15 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: FroggyTheGremlim

I’m not familiar with the author.
I’d guess he has a somewhat magnificent namesake.

11 posted on 09/01/2023 10:40:08 AM PDT by scrabblehack

To: FroggyTheGremlim

Previous puzzle Thursday, August 31, 2023

YA YQ AJF DBPBLGB NCLDBZ AJF KLCBFC AJNA ADCBQ TM GJFFSQ. —JFYBI QADKPF

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

IT IS THE UNKNOWN AROUND THE CORNER THAT TURNS MY WHEELS. —HEINZ STUCKE

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

12 posted on 09/01/2023 4:18:02 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: scrabblehack

Actually the late author has been the target of pedophile priest lawsuits, which apparently is what he is currently most noted for.

13 posted on 09/02/2023 4:12:30 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

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