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Today's Cryptogram

Posted on 12/03/2023 4:44:21 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets

ACAMT XMAFU DVMR VP FMU, J DVHIS SANIFMA QVOQVHKIT, JK F NAIAWMFUJVL, FL FNU VP JLKHWVMSJLFUJVL FXFJLKU UYA WAUMFTFIK, YVMMVMK FLS JLPJSAIJUJAK VP IJPA. - FEFM LFPJKJ, MAFSJLX IVIJUF JL UAYMFL



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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 12/03/2023 4:44:21 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.

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


2 posted on 12/03/2023 4:44:59 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Young girls


3 posted on 12/03/2023 4:58:38 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

4 posted on 12/03/2023 5:08:44 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

...The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter....


5 posted on 12/03/2023 5:08:53 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

It was forbidden but they did it anyway.


6 posted on 12/03/2023 5:11:42 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

7 posted on 12/03/2023 5:14:14 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Previous puzzle Saturday, December 2, 2023

BQ ZQSQW TND NZD-UZQ ONZQ-KQJO,
ZU FNVVQW IUB VWEPJEZK VIQ LUMV;
PUW VIQ QZO UP VINV KNFQ EM UTTWQMMEUZ NZO MINFQ,
NZO VIQ ZNVEUZ VINV TJNDM EV EM JUMV!

WRODNWO AETJEZK

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

We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
   No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
   And the nation that plays it is lost!

Rudyard Kipling

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

8 posted on 12/03/2023 5:32:26 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Really? ...


9 posted on 12/03/2023 6:54:36 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Magnum44

If you consider that a “XMAFU DVMR VP FMU”.


10 posted on 12/03/2023 6:57:30 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Well, I like the one on the prayer rug....


11 posted on 12/03/2023 7:07:57 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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For a 2018 show at Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the artists filled a sprawling gallery with giant artificial turds. The catalog for the show included the following artists’ credo:

THIS IS ALSO A SHOW FOR ALL WHO THINK THAT CONTEMPORARY ART IS SHIT.
THEY SHOULD COME AND SEE THIS SHIT SHOW.
THEY WILL BE SATISFIED.

I will respectfully decline.
12 posted on 12/03/2023 7:26:45 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I hope my post wasn’t too controversial. I was having a very hard time coming up with a pictorial appropriate to the quote.


13 posted on 12/03/2023 7:33:48 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Magnum44
The quote is very provocative, intentionally so, and deserves serious consideration. I especially liked Baldwin's
14 posted on 12/03/2023 8:04:40 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Thanks.


15 posted on 07/31/2024 7:04:51 PM PDT by manna
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