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 08/22/2024 4:05:29 AM PDT by nikos1121

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

2 posted on 08/22/2024 4:08:00 AM PDT by nikos1121

I guess she never heard any of my jokes. Groans, not laughter.

3 posted on 08/22/2024 4:17:38 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

This one seems so familiar

4 posted on 08/22/2024 4:19:30 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)

It’s just “good medicine”.

5 posted on 08/22/2024 4:21:24 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

About your image……..

We senior ladies like to say, “It was so funny I had tears running down my legs.”

6 posted on 08/22/2024 4:23:18 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

Previous puzzle, Wednesday, August 21, 2024

QC QJ CAEJI RI YQDI RQCA KWZ YEDI KWZ JAEVYZ UWER RAE IYVZI VJ. —WEXPKW PKOYIKW

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

IT IS THOSE WE LIVE WITH AND LOVE AND SHOULD KNOW WHO ELUDE US. —NORMAN MACLEAN

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

7 posted on 08/22/2024 4:38:22 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)

8 posted on 08/22/2024 5:25:28 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory

To: MustKnowHistory

It was a lot easier to solve the second time

9 posted on 08/22/2024 5:27:43 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)

10 posted on 08/22/2024 5:28:01 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)

11 posted on 08/22/2024 6:57:22 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

12 posted on 08/22/2024 8:04:07 AM PDT by manna

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

LOL. I’ve never heard that.

13 posted on 08/22/2024 8:30:33 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

14 posted on 08/22/2024 8:33:12 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

15 posted on 08/22/2024 11:07:57 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])

Please... no clues in the ping post. Make a separate post for the clues.

-PJ

16 posted on 08/22/2024 2:48:29 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

To: Political Junkie Too

17 posted on 08/22/2024 5:27:47 PM PDT by nikos1121

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