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 11/30/2023 2:54:10 AM PST by nikos1121

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

2 posted on 11/30/2023 3:00:53 AM PST by nikos1121

And it all comes together.

3 posted on 11/30/2023 3:01:09 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

The first word is a gimme. It gets easier from there.

4 posted on 11/30/2023 3:02:39 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

Really? I thought it was a challenging one today...

5 posted on 11/30/2023 3:04:46 AM PST by nikos1121

I’m drinking a new blend of covfefe.

6 posted on 11/30/2023 3:13:08 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

Previous puzzle Wednesday, November 29, 2023

SRDF LQP’C XSFBF WRK’BF TBRD; LC’Q XSFBF WRK TLPH ILESC XSFP YII EBRXQ HYBJ. —MLFBOF UBRXP

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

HOME ISN’T WHERE YOU’RE FROM; IT’S WHERE YOU FIND LIGHT WHEN ALL GROWS DARK. —PIERCE BROWN

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7 posted on 11/30/2023 3:14:21 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)

Exceptionally easy. If you guess the second word, XH, (the most obvious) it gives the solver HEJ which leads to the preceding word, and from there it is little more than typing.

8 posted on 11/30/2023 3:19:03 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Yeah, but it got me the first word.

-PJ

9 posted on 11/30/2023 3:53:45 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

To: Political Junkie Too

When you see a long word with double letters on the end, it is usually what this one turned out to be. Then seeing there is another group of double letters in the word, it’s a fairly easy guess what the word is.

10 posted on 11/30/2023 4:17:32 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Yes, as well as common long word endings like -tion, -ment, and -ing.

-PJ

11 posted on 11/30/2023 4:24:59 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

First word - 1 minute.

12 posted on 11/30/2023 4:25:15 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

13 posted on 11/30/2023 5:08:26 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

Seems a bit self-centered.

14 posted on 11/30/2023 6:58:43 AM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)

Finally. I really spun my wheels on this one.

15 posted on 11/30/2023 12:32:13 PM PST by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)

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