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 12/31/2023 5:59:15 AM PST 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.

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2 posted on 12/31/2023 5:59:42 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Previous puzzle Saturday December 30, 2023

"[N]S D HTKV ZAWADOAO QCA AXAZPV W NX QCA STZG TS ZDKNDQNTX, NQO GDOO KNGNXNOCAO HV W/I2",
DWHAZQ ANXOQANX NX KTAO QCA NXAZQND TS D HTKV KAYAXK FYTX NQO AXAZPV JTXQAXQ?, DXXDWAX KAZ YCVONR, XTIAGHAZ 21, 1905.
QCNO NKAD NO FOFDWWV AEYZAOOAK QTKDV DO A = gj2.
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
"[I]F A BODY RELEASES THE ENERGY L IN THE FORM OF RADIATION, ITS MASS DIMINISHES BY L/V²", ALBERT EINSTEIN IN DOES THE INERTIA OF A BODY DEPEND UPON ITS ENERGY CONTENT?, ANNALEN DER PHYSIK, NOVEMBER 21, 1905. THIS IDEA IS USUALLY EXPRESSED TODAY AS E = mc².
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 12/31/2023 6:01:54 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

4 posted on 12/31/2023 6:04:56 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

5 posted on 12/31/2023 6:07:09 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

6 posted on 12/31/2023 6:07:30 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

MAGA NEW YEAR !!

7 posted on 12/31/2023 6:07:41 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

I hit post before I added the rest under the pic….. Then there is Leo Tolstoy

8 posted on 12/31/2023 6:10:02 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

Baldwin77 WINS the thread!

9 posted on 12/31/2023 6:11:28 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

10 posted on 12/31/2023 6:28:23 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Finally !!!

I try to win it every day !

11 posted on 12/31/2023 8:23:39 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

12 posted on 12/31/2023 9:44:27 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't match your biography, what good is it?)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

13 posted on 07/05/2024 6:57:15 PM PDT by manna

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