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 12/28/2023 7:19:36 AM PST by nikos1121

Previous puzzle Wednesday December 27, 2023

TCY’R WG BZUBNT RC DRBUR CHGU BLBNY. RQND RNIG, ACS’UG YCR DRBURNYL ZUCI DOUBROQ; ACS’UG DRBURNYL ZUCI GMJGUNGYOG. —SYFYCVY

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

DON’T BE AFRAID TO START OVER AGAIN. THIS TIME, YOU’RE NOT STARTING FROM SCRATCH; YOU’RE STARTING FROM EXPERIENCE. —UNKNOWN

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

2 posted on 12/28/2023 7:24:45 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)

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

From Arkansas Gazette

3 posted on 12/28/2023 7:25:10 AM PST by nikos1121

A bright way of looking at things.

4 posted on 12/28/2023 7:25:55 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)

5 posted on 12/28/2023 7:29:29 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Letter frequency and single letter in PVZWC P make it a cinch.

6 posted on 12/28/2023 7:36:51 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

What you said AND……

7 posted on 12/28/2023 7:43:59 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Would that apply to your daughter after half of her brain was chopped off ?

8 posted on 12/28/2023 7:49:32 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)

From a George Carlin comedy dialogue:

"But you can entertain, and the only reason I suggest you can do something with the way you die is a little known...and less understood ... portion of death called "The Two Minute Warning." Obviously, many of you do not know about it, but just as in football, two minutes before you die, there is an audible warning: "Two minutes, get your s**t together"..."

9 posted on 12/28/2023 8:16:56 AM PST by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])

“And if I am wrong, may God strike me down dead!”

10 posted on 12/28/2023 8:18:04 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)

Was she prevented from doing such?

11 posted on 12/28/2023 8:24:38 AM PST by scrabblehack

12 posted on 12/28/2023 8:40:26 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

13 posted on 12/28/2023 6:47:23 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

14 posted on 12/29/2023 2:05:38 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

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