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.

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 05/08/2020 9:24:27 AM PDT by nikos1121

To: alicewonders; A_perfect_lady; AloneInMass; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; ...

Solution to our last puzzle:

HISTORY IS A RELENTLESS MASTER. IT HAS NO PRESENT, ONLY THE PAST RUSHING INTO THE FUTURE. JOHN F. KENNEDY

2 posted on 05/08/2020 9:26:04 AM PDT by nikos1121

Sam Cook could explain. Similar to yesterday’s theme.

3 posted on 05/08/2020 9:38:52 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - Aeneas to his fellow shipwrecked refugees)

Ok, in the spirit of yesterdays exchange...

4 posted on 05/08/2020 9:39:19 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)

5 posted on 05/08/2020 9:40:08 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - Aeneas to his fellow shipwrecked refugees)

6 posted on 05/08/2020 9:40:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - Aeneas to his fellow shipwrecked refugees)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Beat me by 27 seconds...But I was searching for a pic

7 posted on 05/08/2020 9:43:29 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)

Easy-peasy, almost as fast as I could click the letters. Apparently I did get something from yesterday’s...

8 posted on 05/08/2020 9:58:16 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)

To: nikos1121; All

Very prescient retell of the famous quote by Spinoza...2 minutes, guessed the author first.

9 posted on 05/08/2020 10:01:47 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)

Took a wild guess on the first word, then the rest easily followed.

10 posted on 05/08/2020 10:34:48 AM PDT by cartan

More familiar pattern of the first word than wild guess. That’s how I did it.

11 posted on 05/08/2020 11:36:28 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - Aeneas to his fellow shipwrecked refugees)

Toyed with and just fell in place...

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.

12 posted on 05/08/2020 1:02:01 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")

Another quicky for some reason and a forever truism.

13 posted on 05/08/2020 5:44:13 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)

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