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 12/27/2023 8:25:27 AM PST by nikos1121

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

2 posted on 12/27/2023 8:27:45 AM PST by nikos1121

Colonel Sanders was 65 years old when he started KFC ...

3 posted on 12/27/2023 8:34:00 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

Previous puzzle Chrismas Day, Monday December 25, 2023

VJY VI UCY GVWU SRVXKVEW GYWWYW KJ UCY FVXRQ KW UCY GYWW OXYHUYQ KJ UCY RKDKJS XVVG VJ OCXKWUGHW QHZ. QVJ'U ORYHJ KU EM UVV NEKOARZ. — HJQZ XVVJYZ

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

ONE OF THE MOST GLORIOUS MESSES IN THE WORLD IS THE MESS CREATED IN THE LIVING ROOM ON CHRISTMAS DAY. DON'T CLEAN IT UP TOO QUICKLY. — ANDY ROONEY

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

4 posted on 12/27/2023 8:39:06 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas Alva Edison

5 posted on 12/27/2023 8:41:59 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)

6 posted on 12/27/2023 8:51:02 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

The first letter-pattern I learned when I started doing these things was the author.

7 posted on 12/27/2023 9:07:48 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

8 posted on 12/27/2023 9:11:21 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

DRBUR is not WHICH.
BLBNY is not EVERY.

Perhaps my hint misses the point.

9 posted on 12/27/2023 9:52:31 AM PST by scrabblehack

Oh my goodness. That’s my FAVORITE author.

10 posted on 12/27/2023 1:09:02 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't match your biography, what good is it?)

11 posted on 12/27/2023 8:13:41 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

12 posted on 07/06/2024 3:21:56 PM PDT by manna

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