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 09/16/2023 4:39:14 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Previous puzzle Friday, September 15, 2023

1. PXXX, VXJL'G QF IYH? - RQCG RQAAW
2. K LJVL K LJV J FQIIW LJL! K IKI! K IKI LJV J FQIIW LJL! - LVPPLW
3. RPPF, RPPF! - CPYHYHHWZ HJOKEYDAKJAQG
4. R'IPJ, R'IPJ, LXJL'G JOO, EYOTG! - FYDTW FKC

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

1. EHHH, WHAT'S UP DOC? - BUGS BUNNY
2. I TAWT I TAW A PUDDY TAT! I DID! I DID TAW A PUDDY TAT! - TWEETY
3. BEEP, BEEP! - GEOCOCCYX CALIFORNIANUS
4. B'DEA, B'DEA, THAT'S ALL, FOLKS! - PORKY PIG

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

2 posted on 09/16/2023 4:39:32 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

3 posted on 09/16/2023 4:40:07 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 09/16/2023 5:03:02 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

5 posted on 09/16/2023 5:12:29 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

6 posted on 09/16/2023 5:20:32 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Getting Y’HQ RQXYQHQZ opens the rest of the puzzle.

7 posted on 09/16/2023 5:20:37 AM PDT by vaskypilot

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

8 posted on 09/16/2023 5:42:56 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

You’d have to, to accept the official 2020 election narrative.

9 posted on 09/16/2023 5:48:31 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

10 posted on 09/16/2023 7:38:12 AM PDT by scrabblehack

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

1. The 2020 election was fair and honest.
2. Individuals can change their sex at will.
3. Climate change is real.
4. January 6th was an insurrection and more dangerous than Pearl Harbor.
5. The Antifa and BLM riots were peaceful protests.
6. Joe Biden is the best president ever.

11 posted on 09/16/2023 7:50:32 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.)

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