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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.

1 posted on 11/03/2020 2:01:07 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: alicewonders; A_perfect_lady; AloneInMass; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; ...

Today’s the day.


2 posted on 11/03/2020 2:03:13 AM PST by nikos1121
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I could probably write a program to solve these cryptograms almost in the time it takes to figure one out by hand.


3 posted on 11/03/2020 2:26:55 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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I read somewhere that Thomas Jefferson developed a cypher method that could not be broken until WWII computers but the documentation lay in the National Archive, never used.


4 posted on 11/03/2020 2:32:38 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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Strange statement from a person who has managed to ‘experience’ every and any malady that a guest may or may not have had.

Sort of like on ‘Family Feud’ if a person says he made a living by ?????? they cheer....

Would ‘love’ to get on the show and say something like “I am a serial killer etc’ and listen for the round of applause....<: <: <:


7 posted on 11/03/2020 4:36:17 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: nikos1121

The queen of platitudes strikes again...


8 posted on 11/03/2020 4:36:22 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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This one isn’t getting much right.


9 posted on 11/03/2020 4:37:09 AM PST by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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Do I get a new car?


10 posted on 11/03/2020 5:10:19 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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About 4 minutes.


12 posted on 11/03/2020 5:43:03 AM PST by Jonah Hex
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Did you stop printing the solutions?


16 posted on 11/03/2020 1:54:20 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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