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 07/04/2024 3:37:42 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

From The Arkansas Gazette

2 posted on 07/04/2024 3:38:50 AM PDT by nikos1121

3 posted on 07/04/2024 3:41:16 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

4 posted on 07/04/2024 3:45:48 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

5 posted on 07/04/2024 4:07:06 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])

Previous puzzle, Wednesday July 3, 2024

JRCK BRC DAAK UAQCLY BRC YFK, JC RNQC N YAENL CUEMSYC. JRNB OA WAF UNEE MB JRCK HMLOY OA BRNB? —VMD WAFKI-RN

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

WHEN THE MOON COVERS THE SUN, WE HAVE A SOLAR ECLIPSE. WHAT DO YOU CALL IT WHEN BIRDS DO THAT? —JIM YOUNG-HA

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

6 posted on 07/04/2024 4:11:27 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)

7 posted on 07/04/2024 4:14:57 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)

8 posted on 07/04/2024 4:29:03 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

In that case, this must be Biden’s:

9 posted on 07/04/2024 4:50:40 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)

10 posted on 07/04/2024 5:24:09 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

11 posted on 07/04/2024 5:38:48 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

The statement is itself a INWRDNI.

12 posted on 07/04/2024 6:52:03 AM PDT by scrabblehack

13 posted on 07/04/2024 7:36:09 AM PDT by manna

That quote is kind of weird.

14 posted on 07/04/2024 11:50:27 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

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