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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 01/31/2021 8:54:23 AM PST by nikos1121

JEG VYAL JENYF N CRD PNJ PVX CRD JV KG R CXNJGX,

RYT JEND YVJNVY XGDJGT DVAGAL VY OL DSDBNZNVY

JERJ N CVSAT YGHGX KG PNJ PVX XGRA CVXI, RYT JERJ

CXNJNYF TNTY'J XGUSNXG RYL.

- XSDDGAA KRIGX



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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 01/31/2021 8:54:23 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: alicewonders; AloneInMass; Aria; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; capecodder; ...

One of those CG where you toil a bit here and there and it opens up before your eyes like an umbrella.

Try to do it on paper, using HAL a last resort.

4 minutes good
2 minutes excellent
90 seconds superior
1 minute amazing


2 posted on 01/31/2021 8:58:13 AM PST by nikos1121 ( )
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‘They’ say it isn’t work if you enjoy doing it


3 posted on 01/31/2021 9:19:27 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "Message to GOP "GO FUnd YOURSELF")
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The letters just filled themselves in.


4 posted on 01/31/2021 9:31:34 AM PST by MustKnowHistory
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Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.


5 posted on 01/31/2021 9:40:44 AM PST by scrabblehack
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Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.

Those who can't teach, become politicians.

6 posted on 01/31/2021 9:42:01 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nikos1121

common letter.
sort out the single letter words
finish up the vowels


7 posted on 01/31/2021 9:43:39 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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Solution to previous puzzle (select yellow text to read):

JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU’BE GRADUATED FROM THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE, SOMEONE THINKS UP A NEW COURSE. —MARY WALDRIP

8 posted on 01/31/2021 9:58:55 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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2:02.98

Very straightforward. Call me Ishmael.




9 posted on 01/31/2021 10:09:15 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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10 posted on 01/31/2021 10:09:57 AM PST by Stars&StripesNE
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11 posted on 01/31/2021 10:58:22 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: nikos1121

ABCA gives you every other vowel. Not seeing the challenge.


12 posted on 01/31/2021 12:19:59 PM PST by gundog (This space for rent.)
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy....


13 posted on 01/31/2021 1:52:14 PM PST by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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14 posted on 01/31/2021 1:54:06 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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3:02
I was stumped till I realized that one word wasn’t a contraction, it was a spot on my screen. Cleaned that and everything went smoothly.


15 posted on 01/31/2021 2:11:55 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop ("There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration” - Pompeo)
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16 posted on 01/31/2021 4:43:55 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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