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To: alicewonders; AloneInMass; Aria; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; capecodder; ...

Challenging Cryptogram today that opens quickly revealing the author.

Starts with Word #5

From The Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional


2 posted on 02/01/2021 5:02:57 AM PST by nikos1121 ( )
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Best CGs are the ones where the most common letter is not the most common.


3 posted on 02/01/2021 5:04:19 AM PST by nikos1121 ( )
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Solution to previous puzzle (select yellow text to read):

THE ONLY THING I WAS FIT FOR WAS TO BE A WRITER, AND THIS NOTION RESTED SOLELY ON MY SUSPICION THAT I WOULD NEVER BE FIT FOR REAL WORK, AND THAT WRITING DIDN'T REQUIRE ANY. - RUSSELL BAKER

5 posted on 02/01/2021 5:54:07 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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Quite hard. Eventually, I simply guessed the fifth word, and then the sixth just…appeared!
8 posted on 02/01/2021 7:36:35 AM PST by cartan
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Arrrgghhh! I spent over seventeen minutes on it during “work” and almost gave up, then came back after 6:00 PM and got it in less than two minutes. Probably because I had a clear conscience.


14 posted on 02/01/2021 3:11:28 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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Word 6
brute force.
Looking at 17 letter words with necessary letters to fit word 5


16 posted on 02/01/2021 6:47:05 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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