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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 04/12/2022 2:02:19 AM PDT by nikos1121

HV BQC HIBCEICB QRZ

BRDTQB DZ RINBQHIT, HB’Z

BQRB NUD LRIB PCZZ ICLZ RIK XUEC MRBZ. —ACBCE ZRTRP


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: todayscryptogram
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 04/12/2022 2:02:19 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

From The Arkansas Gazette

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior


2 posted on 04/12/2022 2:02:59 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

I’m stuck on the last word...2 or 3 possibilities (one of which is a rare word except in Scrabble, and none of them make much sense.)


3 posted on 04/12/2022 2:15:31 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: nikos1121

4 posted on 04/12/2022 2:33:28 AM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowsk)
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To: Apparatchik

Cute. Very quick solution compared to yesterday.


5 posted on 04/12/2022 2:46:23 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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To: nikos1121

I think the author is wrong about this. We FReepers get a lot of ICLZ from Free Republic and love to do so.


6 posted on 04/12/2022 3:11:10 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; ...
Previous puzzle Monday, 4/11/2022

FALYEU SEHCZOF DPQ MHCIQLF DC ARYED DPQ HRSUPYEU FCYH. —VYFPCA LQUYERHG PQVQL

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

SPRING UNLOCKS THE FLOWERS TO PAINT THE LAUGHING SOIL. —BISHOP REGINALD HEBER

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

7 posted on 04/12/2022 3:50:54 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: nikos1121

8 posted on 04/12/2022 4:34:32 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Magnum44

Kitty torture 🤣


9 posted on 04/12/2022 4:35:01 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Apparatchik

10 posted on 04/12/2022 4:36:16 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: scrabblehack

Look at the obvious clues....


11 posted on 04/12/2022 4:37:57 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Magnum44

Funny!!!


12 posted on 04/12/2022 4:38:41 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

2 min.

Contraction, word after the contraction, first two words.

Easy from there.


13 posted on 04/12/2022 5:15:35 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: Magnum44

You win the thread.


14 posted on 04/12/2022 5:15:54 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: nikos1121

Sometimes they click and sometimes they don’t. This one did.
If I could type faster that would have been sub 30 seconds.


15 posted on 04/12/2022 7:22:29 AM PDT by penguinhunter
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To: nikos1121
Less than 2 minutes


16 posted on 04/12/2022 9:33:20 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: penguinhunter

You don’t need to write out the CG to claim your time. Just sayin’.

If you can pause from writing and read the CG out loud that counts.

I was sub minute on this one as I could read it completely before writing it out…


17 posted on 04/12/2022 11:09:58 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: JaguarXKE

Good job!!!!

Are you on our Ping list? 😊


18 posted on 04/12/2022 11:12:15 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Thanks. No, I’m not.


19 posted on 04/12/2022 11:36:25 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: JaguarXKE

Do you want to be?


20 posted on 04/12/2022 12:15:16 PM PDT by nikos1121
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