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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 07/03/2020 2:05:05 AM PDT by nikos1121

XOUW VT PLMUD VT XOUW ALS GRRD QLLK UGWRM, UJK XOUW VT VPPLMUD VT XOUW ALS GRRD NUK UGWRM. —RMJRTW ORPVJQXUA


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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.

Solution to our last puzzle. Simply scroll your cursor over the text while left clicking your mouse, and the words should appear.

YOU MUST LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES OF OTHERS. YOU CAN’T POSSIBLY LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE THEM ALL YOURSELF. —SAM LEVENSON

1 posted on 07/03/2020 2:05:05 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: alicewonders; A_perfect_lady; AloneInMass; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; ...

A challenge today. Clue in my tagline.


2 posted on 07/03/2020 2:08:18 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Start with word #10)
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Started with the first and tenth words, and quickly got the name which made it easy.


3 posted on 07/03/2020 2:28:58 AM PDT by cartan
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Words 7 and 8.


4 posted on 07/03/2020 2:48:47 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Yep. That did it for me.


5 posted on 07/03/2020 3:02:53 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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I’m embarrassed at how long it took me to recognize the name.


6 posted on 07/03/2020 3:06:07 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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welcome back


7 posted on 07/03/2020 3:18:01 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Start with word #10)
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Thank you! I’m always around, I just can’t concentrate sometimes, when life is in upheaval. But I’m getting close to settling in again, so... the fog is lifting. LOL!


8 posted on 07/03/2020 3:35:35 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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Quite a challenge. I arranged it as:

xxxx XOUW VT xxPLMUD VT XOUW ALS GRRD QLLK UGWRM,
UJK XOUW VT VPPLMUD VT XOUW ALS GRRD NUK UGWRM.

—RMJRTW ORPVJQXUA

and realized that QLLK and NUK were probably opposites, and noticed that they ended in the same letter.


9 posted on 07/03/2020 3:53:30 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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10 posted on 07/03/2020 5:36:52 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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Seventh and eighth words by intuition, the rest followed.


11 posted on 07/03/2020 7:02:49 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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haha


12 posted on 07/03/2020 9:50:56 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Start with word #10)
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Yes #ten got me going, leading to the XOUWs and the finish. Fun puzzle today. Ironic quote by author considering his end. Happy and safe 4th to you nikos1121.


13 posted on 07/03/2020 11:21:25 AM PDT by freedom1st (Build the Walli)
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Late start today...

Well, that is one way to put it..

I believe it was Phyliss Diller who said

Everything I love is either illegal, immoral or fattening...

(Or she would have said it first had she thought of it first)


14 posted on 07/03/2020 6:22:32 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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Same here first word then author then boom


15 posted on 07/03/2020 6:31:47 PM PDT by southernindymom ( IT)
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Actually kind of quick. Most common letter begets author and from there the rest fell together.


16 posted on 07/03/2020 9:28:31 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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