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.

If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.

4 minutes good

3 minutes excellent

2 minutes exceptional

90 seconds superior

1 posted on 07/14/2023 5:43:16 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim

To: FroggyTheGremlim

2 posted on 07/14/2023 5:53:33 AM PDT by ArtDodger

Sorry Art, I can’t figure out how to add the Ping List to the post.

I’m new at this.

But you got it pretty fast.

Froggy

3 posted on 07/14/2023 5:57:58 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

Well, Jim, I warned ya!

4 posted on 07/14/2023 5:58:35 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

5 posted on 07/14/2023 6:09:32 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

To: FroggyTheGremlim

Okay, the double letter in the last name really misled me. LOL!

6 posted on 07/14/2023 6:13:49 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)

7 posted on 07/14/2023 6:18:14 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

Yeah, I don’t understand much of it myself.

8 posted on 07/14/2023 6:34:22 AM PDT by ArtDodger

He is a devil isn’t he?

9 posted on 07/14/2023 6:58:59 AM PDT by penguinhunter

To: penguinhunter

“NO KILL I.”

Froggy

10 posted on 07/14/2023 8:07:14 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

Previous puzzle Thursday, July 13, 2023

QSYVY EVY WB FYEZQPJZG TZVJEKYT IPQSBZQ E QYVVPFGY OYRQS. —WPYQXTKSY

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

THERE ARE NO BEAUTIFUL SURFACES WITHOUT A TERRIBLE DEPTH. —NIETZSCHE

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

11 posted on 07/14/2023 3:24:57 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

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

12 posted on 07/14/2023 3:28:14 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

I thought this was going to be really hard. But it wasn't.

13 posted on 07/14/2023 5:30:48 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

To: FroggyTheGremlim

Go one. Was not easy for me....

14 posted on 07/16/2023 4:15:47 AM PDT by nikos1121

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