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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 10/07/2020 2:52:47 AM PDT by nikos1121

HU XSJREUHVHUE GKS KDNOUHGQ

RZ RDX ZSBBRF ISHUEY, FS WOQ

RDXYSBASY GKS KHEKSYG GXHIDGS. —GKDXERRC NOXYKOBB


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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.

Solution to our last puzzle. Simply scroll your cursor over the text while left clicking your mouse, and the words should appear.

GETTING FIRED IS NATURE’S WAY TO TELLING YOU THAT YOU THAT YOU HAD THE WRONG JOB IN THE FIRST PLACE. HAL LANCASTER

1 posted on 10/07/2020 2:52:47 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: alicewonders; A_perfect_lady; AloneInMass; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; ...

Today’s Cryptogram is from The Arkansas Gazette


2 posted on 10/07/2020 2:53:39 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

The dark language of Mordor should never be posted here.


3 posted on 10/07/2020 2:57:16 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: nikos1121

Most common letter, etc etc.


4 posted on 10/07/2020 3:10:50 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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To: nikos1121

Caught HU in the first two words...it flowed from there.


5 posted on 10/07/2020 3:20:33 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: fwdude
The dark language of Mordor should never be posted here.

Nor vacuous platitudes.

6 posted on 10/07/2020 3:26:07 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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Four minutes...the definite article most helpful.


7 posted on 10/07/2020 4:47:16 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: nikos1121

Nice. Started with common letter, short words, and the first name of the author.


8 posted on 10/07/2020 4:52:20 AM PDT by cartan
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
“The dark language of Mordor should never be posted here.“

Nor vacuous platitudes.

Nor a lack of a healthy sense of humor.

9 posted on 10/07/2020 4:58:31 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: nikos1121

It’s not saying much, but at least it’s not an RBG quote.


10 posted on 10/07/2020 5:42:48 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: fwdude

I was addressing the quote, not your remark. The quote was a vacuous platitude spoken in the dark language of Mordor. Actually, platitude is the main idiom of Mordor.


11 posted on 10/07/2020 6:15:48 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: nikos1121

Good puzzle, but attributed to a marginal, crappy public figure in U.S. history.


12 posted on 10/07/2020 7:30:44 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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1 minute. Trivial, though I didn't know it.

Most common letter; third word.

Next to last word; last word.

Second word (look at the ending; also finishes first word). Off to the races.

13 posted on 10/07/2020 7:31:28 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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Completely stumped.
Walked away for a break, then words 8 and 13 came into focus.

quick sprint to the finish


14 posted on 10/07/2020 7:38:45 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Alberta's Child

Although this man probably did more for his race than MLK, by far.


15 posted on 10/07/2020 10:43:16 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Word 13 after a couple of the 3 letter words.

Maybe 5 min. sans coffee.


16 posted on 10/07/2020 12:33:18 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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GKS yields a very good clue and the rest was speedy.


17 posted on 10/07/2020 6:11:36 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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Well, I finally got it!


18 posted on 10/08/2020 3:55:52 PM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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