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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 01/01/2021 4:44:42 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: alicewonders; A_perfect_lady; AloneInMass; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; ...

DAILY CRYPTOGRAM CONTEST JANUARY 6!

I believe January 6, 2021 will be the day of reckoning.

If a million patriots show for The Trump Rally in DC, AND if Mike Pense does the right thing, the country will be saved.

January 6, 2021 The Daily Cryptogram will be posted at around 9 AM EST.

The first correct answer to the word puzzle posted

TO MY PRIVATE REPLY ONLY!

will get a $100 donation to Free Republic in their name.

Second prize $75
Third prize $50
Forth prize $25

Today’s Cryptogram is from The Arkansas Gazette and has a couple words that may stump you.


2 posted on 01/01/2021 4:48:33 AM PST by nikos1121
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Took a while to get ‘untracked’ but finally got it???

Don’t think I would have worded it the same way BUT who am I to ‘argue’ with someone that is still quoted nearly 200 years post mortem? <: <: <:

I should be so lucky and probably look down(or up) and shake my head in derision were someone to ‘question’ me long about 2222 or so...


9 posted on 01/01/2021 6:13:33 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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2:48.86 Language seems stilted to my modern ear.

My granddaughter, Molly Golightly, was born on December 31, and it suits her personality.

10 posted on 01/01/2021 6:20:09 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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11 posted on 01/01/2021 6:50:48 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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