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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 07/30/2021 4:20:22 AM PDT by nikos1121

HUZ SFT CH BQZNZUC RHUNZQEFCMHU OQHJ DZMUK DHQMUK ME CH EFT CPZ SQHUK CPMUK. —OQFUX EPZZA


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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 07/30/2021 4:20:22 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: alicewonders; AloneInMass; Aria; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; capecodder; ...

From the Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Solve it in

4 minutes is good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
90 seconds amazing


2 posted on 07/30/2021 4:21:14 AM PDT by nikos1121
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3 posted on 07/30/2021 4:22:50 AM PDT by nikos1121
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A lucky guess on word five, final four letters, got me going in the right direction


4 posted on 07/30/2021 4:56:54 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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Previous puzzle Thursday 7/29/2021:

MKCGODCYKW, CQY ZSKW JZPYI CZ PQGHQ ODS VQZMKN DVJGIY GV CQDC PQGHQ QY YUYIHGVYV ZEYI QGOVYKX. - YKGY PGYVYK

Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

ULTIMATELY, THE ONLY POWER TO WHICH MAN SHOULD ASPIRE IS THAT WHICH HE EXERCISES OVER HIMSELF. - ELIE WIESEL

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

5 posted on 07/30/2021 4:58:25 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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2:50.08 Took a few trips down blind alleys, then just took a lucky stab at the first three words. Took a lucky guess to complete the author's last name. (Checked by internet search.)


6 posted on 07/30/2021 5:12:14 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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Some people take it too far...


7 posted on 07/30/2021 6:03:19 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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It took about five minutes. I found the common letter and the common word. I guessed at the last word before the author, which got me the first four words and then the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

8 posted on 07/30/2021 7:55:24 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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