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 08/15/2024 4:22:39 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

2 posted on 08/15/2024 4:24:34 AM PDT by nikos1121

Fell right into place

3 posted on 08/15/2024 4:26:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

Then there was the show - I saw it when Bobby Van (RIP) hosted it

4 posted on 08/15/2024 4:28:19 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

Previous puzzle, Wednesday, August 15, 2024

MA HPS JBLU’E JE ERL EJDCL, HPS’BL PU ERL OLUS. —JUU BMKRJBFQ

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

IF YOU AREN’T AT THE TABLE, YOU’RE ON THE MENU. —ANN RICHARDS

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

5 posted on 08/15/2024 4:30:43 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)

6 posted on 08/15/2024 4:30:52 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])

7 posted on 08/15/2024 4:35:43 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS

8 posted on 08/15/2024 4:39:15 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)

She was adorable. And that accent.

9 posted on 08/15/2024 4:40:00 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)

10 posted on 08/15/2024 4:40:50 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

The Cryptogram gift: JLFJUL

11 posted on 08/15/2024 5:18:32 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)

12 posted on 08/15/2024 5:21:14 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)

13 posted on 08/15/2024 5:26:10 AM PDT by nikos1121

14 posted on 08/15/2024 5:26:59 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

15 posted on 08/15/2024 8:04:51 AM PDT by manna

That one was easy. But some Cryptos that others find easy, I struggle with.

16 posted on 08/15/2024 8:07:59 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

17 posted on 08/15/2024 9:26:46 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

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