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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 11/18/2020 6:28:52 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: alicewonders; A_perfect_lady; AloneInMass; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; ...

Can’t tell how easy or hard this one will be.


2 posted on 11/18/2020 6:31:54 AM PST by nikos1121
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Best part is trying to figure out the name! That’s real crytpogramming!


10 posted on 11/18/2020 6:56:39 AM PST by MikeyB806
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2:48.41

Once I got words three and four, it was a easy. I did not solve for the author, I had to google to find it. Time to find the author is not included in the time posted.


14 posted on 11/18/2020 7:00:49 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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It was the French/Spanish thing that killed me.


15 posted on 11/18/2020 7:05:51 AM PST by MikeyB806
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I thought it was a magazine.


17 posted on 11/18/2020 7:09:58 AM PST by scrabblehack
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20 posted on 11/18/2020 1:32:49 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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