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Today's Cryptogram

Posted on 01/07/2024 3:35:19 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets

ZFX XHYECBF BRXDTCHY MKOEV PDU QX VCNCVXV CHZK:

(1) ZFKBX MFK HXCZFXO THKM HKO LDOX MFDZ D BRECZ CHICHCZCNX CB;
(2) ZFKBX MFK VK HKZ THKM, QGZ LDOX NXOU PGLF;
(3) ZFKBX MFK THKM DHV LKHVXPH;
(4) ZFKBX MFK THKM DHV DRROKNX; DHV
(5) ZFKBX MFK THKM DHV VCBZCHYGCBF.

ZFKBX MFK HXCZFXO THKM HKO LDOX DOX ZFX NDBZ PDSKOCZU DHV DOX D FDRRU IKET, ZK QX XHNCXV QU PKBZ KI ZFX PCHKOCZU LEDBBXB.

- F. M. IKMEXO, PKVXOH XHYECBF GBDYX (1926)



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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 01/07/2024 3:35:19 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 01/07/2024 3:36:12 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Previous puzzle Saturday January 6, 2024

W OQDP RVSR IXILFDQI VILI PWCC MDDQ AI NSLTVWQU DXIL RD RVI TSHWRDC AZWCGWQU RD HISTIJZCCF SQG HSRLWDRWTSCCF NSOI FDZL XDWTIM VISLG. - GDQSCG E. RLZNH, ESQZSLF 6, 2021
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. - Donald J. Trump, January 6, 2021

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER


3 posted on 01/07/2024 3:36:44 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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4 posted on 01/07/2024 3:42:37 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Got it


5 posted on 01/07/2024 3:47:08 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Ignorance is bliss.


6 posted on 01/07/2024 3:49:56 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Apparatchik

Your post is as good as it was inevitable. I hope you are part of the happy majority.


7 posted on 01/07/2024 3:50:38 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Blissfully in Group 1!


8 posted on 01/07/2024 3:53:06 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I just wanted to be the first, since everyone will think of it. And, no, I must suffer in the minority.


9 posted on 01/07/2024 3:53:36 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: ComputerGuy

Ignorance of trivial obsessions. The author goes on to point out that the topic is a 19th Century pedantic affectation, having absolutely nothing to do with good grammar, syntax, or style.


10 posted on 01/07/2024 3:53:52 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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11 posted on 01/07/2024 3:54:39 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

Where would we be without our pedants?


12 posted on 01/07/2024 3:58:18 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Don’t leave any of your participle thingies dangling.


13 posted on 01/07/2024 4:06:28 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

14 posted on 01/07/2024 4:24:05 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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To: Baldwin77

I solved it quickly but it took forever to think of an appropriate post !!!

Those who know, know !


15 posted on 01/07/2024 4:26:14 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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Where would we be without our pedants?

Albert Einstein told Arnold Sommerfeld that the anomaly in the precession of the orbit of Mercury gave him a whole new appreciation of “the pedantic precision of astronomy that I secretly used to make fun of in the past.” The precession of the orbit of Mercury is one of the three classical tests of the General Theory of Relativity (1914). (As opposed to the Special Theory (1905)).

16 posted on 01/07/2024 4:33:30 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Baldwin77

Today’s author agrees. See my post #10.


17 posted on 01/07/2024 4:35:45 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

[[“the pedantic precision of astronomy that I secretly used to make fun of in the past.” The precession of the orbit of Mercury is one of the three classical tests of the General Theory of Relativity (1914).]]

Wow - that would make a great cryptogram next week !


18 posted on 01/07/2024 4:58:33 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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To: Baldwin77

I was thinking something a little more approachable, like “The characteristic response of a neutral plasma to an incident plane wave...”, or “pH is the negative of the common logarithm of the concentration of hydronium ions, expressed in gram equivalents.” Wadda ya think? We kin git a little lurnun dun round hereabouts?


19 posted on 01/07/2024 5:18:31 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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20 posted on 01/07/2024 5:49:43 AM PST by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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