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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 01/03/2021 6:13:10 AM PST by nikos1121
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Solution to last cryptogram:

WRITE IT ON YOUR HEART THAT EVERY DAY IS THE BEST DAY IN THE YEAR. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

2 posted on 01/03/2021 6:14:20 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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To: alicewonders; A_perfect_lady; AloneInMass; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; ...

Challenging Cryptogram today.

10 minutes is good
5 minutes is an excellent score today
2 minutes superior

Don’t forget the contest on the 6th.


3 posted on 01/03/2021 6:15:40 AM PST by nikos1121
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Despite my seeing the ‘teaser’ this was considered to be fairly easy....

‘They’ say it takes more muscles to frown than to smile and I reply with...

“How else do you think I would get my exercise???”


8 posted on 01/03/2021 7:00:04 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the. that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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12 posted on 01/03/2021 7:22:16 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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A 2-L llama: he’s a beast
A 3-L llama: a big fire


19 posted on 01/03/2021 4:59:30 PM PST by scrabblehack
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