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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 06/27/2021 5:03:21 AM PDT by nikos1121

N’Z SVCH SPH VYH DU FXZHGKSVXZNXB DQHG SPH VYH DU NBXDGVXRH VXW ZVW. —ZDFBIVK VZVJK



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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 06/27/2021 5:03:21 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: alicewonders; AloneInMass; Aria; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; capecodder; ...

Tricky one. From the Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Solve it in

4 minutes is good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
90 seconds amazing

Note:Are you sure about word #4??????


2 posted on 06/27/2021 5:05:35 AM PDT by nikos1121
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After a couple of false starts on the first contraction , the author’s name became obvious.


3 posted on 06/27/2021 5:19:19 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory (.)
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To: MustKnowHistory

and word #4?


4 posted on 06/27/2021 5:19:59 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121
Previous puzzle Saturday 6/26/2021:

USVJNXHO QSX KVP OPVU OZAKO, PMXE QSX ADZYXNZKXO. —SVJXSP M. OGMDNNXS

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

PROBLEMS ARE NOT STOP SIGNS, THEY ARE GUIDELINES. —ROBERT H. SCHULLER

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

5 posted on 06/27/2021 5:27:15 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: nikos1121

I think there’s a typo in it.

Maybe 90 seconds.
Two guesses on the last letter of the first word; that and most common letter in a three-letter word give word 4.

Which gives author’s name.

But I think there’s a typo (as hinted) in word 4 and later when that same word is repeated.


6 posted on 06/27/2021 5:32:53 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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To: grey_whiskers

No typo....


7 posted on 06/27/2021 5:35:37 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

I had to run through the alphabet before I found the right letter in word four,


8 posted on 06/27/2021 5:35:47 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory (.)
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To: MustKnowHistory

Got the contraction and word 4 wrong.
Looked up the quote


9 posted on 06/27/2021 5:36:03 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: grey_whiskers

keep at ‘er
No typo.


10 posted on 06/27/2021 5:36:59 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: grey_whiskers

11 posted on 06/27/2021 5:37:21 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

I don’t think it is a typo, but it is a strange word to put there,


12 posted on 06/27/2021 5:38:00 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory (.)
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To: MustKnowHistory

Yes...


13 posted on 06/27/2021 5:38:25 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121
SPOILER ALERT: Best I could come up with for the fourth word is: AXE but google search of my solution shows it should be AWE. My thinking was on the lines of Occam's AXE . It makes (a little) sense when you see the correct solution.
14 posted on 06/27/2021 5:39:20 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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15 posted on 06/27/2021 6:03:54 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Magnum44

Huh?


16 posted on 06/27/2021 6:22:17 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

inre todays puzzle

sicut scriptum est bonum


17 posted on 06/27/2021 7:09:29 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 "Message to GOP "GO FUnd YOURSELF")
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To: nikos1121

inre todays puzzle

sicut scriptum est bonum


18 posted on 06/27/2021 7:09:30 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 "Message to GOP "GO FUnd YOURSELF")
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To: nikos1121
It sort of fit and I thought it was funny....

I could have just posted...

A recognizing and transition from the AoI to the AoU

19 posted on 06/27/2021 7:18:01 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: nikos1121
Took awhile.


20 posted on 06/27/2021 8:36:55 AM PDT by Stars&StripesNE
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