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, youÔÇÖll be solving them all within a few days. If youÔÇÖre 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 todayÔÇÖs 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 HalÔÇÖs 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 donÔÇÖt 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 10/20/2023 3:45:29 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim

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

Hiya kids! Hiya, Hiya!

Good Morning Crypto-FReepers.

This one is especially dedicated to our friend Lonesome in Massachusetts who is well versed in classic literature.

Sadly, this beautiful month, October, is also mosquito time.

The little biting buggers are a pain, aren't they? !

Here's a fun crypto.

I'm expecting some really good, biting, CLEVER CLUES!!

I'll be good - I will, I will!
Ha ha ha.

2 posted on 10/20/2023 3:48:12 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

Previous puzzle Thursday, October 19, 2023

NWVY JZS MGY'O RBYP OWV KSYKWBYV TV OWV KSYKWBYV. GSOWZD SYUYZNY

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

WHEN YOU CAN'T FIND THE SUNSHINE BE THE SUNSHINE. AUTHOR UNKNOWN

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 10/20/2023 3:59:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

4 posted on 10/20/2023 4:03:24 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

A Budget of Paradoxes.

5 posted on 10/20/2023 4:08:34 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

6 posted on 10/20/2023 4:10:05 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

7 posted on 10/20/2023 4:42:15 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

The greatest pick-up line of all time!

Spoiler (but worth viewing after you have solved the puzzle)
https://youtu.be/ef-kn3fvJu0?si=4hFiH7z5MObmvpAA

8 posted on 10/20/2023 4:54:37 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: FroggyTheGremlim

So soon? Did he just have a birthday?

9 posted on 10/20/2023 4:57:23 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

10 posted on 10/20/2023 6:27:15 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

11 posted on 10/20/2023 6:40:25 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

12 posted on 10/20/2023 9:27:48 AM PDT by gitmo

It’s a seduction poem.

I wonder if the guy was successful?

13 posted on 10/20/2023 12:04:13 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

Of course he was successful. Poetry works every time, doesn’t it?

14 posted on 10/20/2023 12:55:37 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

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