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 10/05/2023 3:22:41 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

2 posted on 10/05/2023 3:23:53 AM PDT by nikos1121

To: Lonesome in Massachussets; Magnum44; 1_Rain_Drop; Apple Pan Dowdy; ComputerGuy; A_perfect_lady; ...

3 posted on 10/05/2023 3:27:41 AM PDT by nikos1121

4 posted on 10/05/2023 4:22:45 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Your pic poked and prodded me toward the magic word.

5 posted on 10/05/2023 4:39:17 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

The secret to solving this one is to keep trying all the 2-letter woods you can think of for that 1st word. Each try, notice if you see something revealed in another word, then work from there. It took me way over 30 minutes to do that. Once I got a few words, I recognized the quote ….actually heard it a few days ago.

6 posted on 10/05/2023 4:50:19 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

You gave me words three and four. That did it.

7 posted on 10/05/2023 5:07:56 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

Well word 3 would be automatically evident. A 1-letter word, can’t be “i” so it has to be “a”.

8 posted on 10/05/2023 5:16:05 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

A grocery bag or construction paper works too

9 posted on 10/05/2023 5:22:24 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

Wake up little kitty !

10 posted on 10/05/2023 6:08:44 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

11 posted on 10/05/2023 9:44:47 AM PDT by gitmo

That’s really creepy.

12 posted on 10/05/2023 9:56:33 AM PDT by gitmo

Previous puzzle Wednesday, October 4, 2023

CJJ V’NP DQL VZ UP, CKA LGCL VZ PKQEDG. —NVQJC ACNVZ

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

ALL I’VE GOT IS ME, AND THAT IS ENOUGH. —VIOLA DAVIS

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

13 posted on 10/05/2023 4:38:05 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

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