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 09/02/2023 4:07:28 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 09/02/2023 4:07:58 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Previous puzzle Friday, September 1, 2023

KBW JZWIJMW HWIQLO KBCORQ BW CQO'K. -GJKBWI PJIIX PLIWOYLOC

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

THE AVERAGE PERSON THINKS HE ISN'T. -FATHER LARRY LORENZONI

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 09/02/2023 4:08:14 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 09/02/2023 4:09:06 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

It’s true, Charlie Brown.

5 posted on 09/02/2023 4:13:00 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

6 posted on 09/02/2023 4:25:35 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

7 posted on 09/02/2023 4:29:10 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

8 posted on 09/02/2023 5:12:11 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

9 posted on 09/02/2023 5:31:25 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

10 posted on 09/02/2023 6:29:26 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

11 posted on 09/02/2023 7:52:41 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

12 posted on 09/02/2023 12:10:33 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

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