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 cryptogr)am).

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 01/14/2025 2:01:44 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy

To: absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; babyfreep; Baldwin77; BlueLancer; ...

Enjoy today’s Cryptogram

2 posted on 01/14/2025 2:02:21 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

3 posted on 01/14/2025 2:03:33 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

4 posted on 01/14/2025 2:07:20 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Author’s name is a gimme.

5 posted on 01/14/2025 3:11:26 AM PST by ComputerGuy

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Previous puzzle, Monday January 13, 2025

OVN OJL QZSFU ZYLS ZT VOX XVUL MTU LYLSWOJVTH FZZXL QVFF FMTU VT FZX MTHLFLX. ― CSMTP FFZWU QSVHJO

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

TIP THE WORLD OVER ON ITS SIDE AND EVERYTHING LOOSE WILL LAND IN LOS ANGELES. ― FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

6 posted on 01/14/2025 3:17:45 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets

Three letter word gave me the second word, after that it was just typing.

7 posted on 01/14/2025 3:19:53 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

8 posted on 01/14/2025 5:10:24 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

The first and the fifth word did it for me, along with the double letter in the second.

9 posted on 01/14/2025 5:29:48 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

10 posted on 01/14/2025 7:02:36 AM PST by manna

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Excellent choice. Uplifting and refined. Well done!

11 posted on 01/14/2025 7:16:15 AM PST by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)

You win the thread for the best clue today … LOL

12 posted on 01/14/2025 7:30:35 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Three letter word gave me the second word, after that it was just typing.

Same here. Pretty quick solution.

13 posted on 01/14/2025 8:42:45 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

14 posted on 01/14/2025 9:26:49 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )

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