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 06/27/2024 12:51:23 AM PDT by nikos1121

This dandy little cryptogram is from The Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

5 minutes good
4 minutes excellent
3 minutes superior
2 minutes or less you get the golden unicorn award

2 posted on 06/27/2024 12:53:09 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

3 posted on 06/27/2024 12:57:04 AM PDT by nikos1121

4 posted on 06/27/2024 2:10:05 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

5 posted on 06/27/2024 2:43:47 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)

6 posted on 06/27/2024 3:14:20 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

My idea of roughing it is the Motel 6.

7 posted on 06/27/2024 3:46:11 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

Previous puzzle, Wednesday, June 26, 2024

IL PTI A FZFD PFM YTQ PS ETMXFD’Q FOKTN, TIB A IFZFD NLZFB TIS LMXFD PTI TQ PKWX. —XFBS NTPTDD

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

NO MAN I EVER MET WAS MY FATHER’S EQUAL, AND I NEVER LOVED ANY OTHER MAN AS MUCH. —HEDY LAMARR

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

8 posted on 06/27/2024 3:52:12 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)

Or, you could try this.

9 posted on 06/27/2024 4:26:29 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)

Mine is Hampton Inn.

10 posted on 06/27/2024 4:27:06 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)

11 posted on 06/27/2024 4:27:26 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)

Now why didn't THEY think of that?!?

-PJ

12 posted on 06/27/2024 4:36:57 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

13 posted on 06/27/2024 5:00:25 AM PDT by occamrzr06

14 posted on 06/27/2024 5:26:09 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

15 posted on 06/27/2024 9:31:35 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])

16 posted on 06/27/2024 11:55:54 AM PDT by manna

My second favorite author.

17 posted on 06/27/2024 12:10:39 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

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