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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 07/31/2021 5:34:18 AM PDT by nikos1121

GCTAXMQL CRUQ LQUQM VQQL UQMZ SPPX RF ATIFQLTLS FP FCQTM QAXQMI, VOF FCQZ CRUQ LQUQM YRTAQX FP TBTFRFQ FCQB. —HRBQI VRAXETL


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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 07/31/2021 5:34:18 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 07/31/2021 5:35:18 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

The duck flies at midnight


3 posted on 07/31/2021 5:38:40 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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To: freedumb2003

Quick one today....


4 posted on 07/31/2021 5:41:26 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Typo alert!


5 posted on 07/31/2021 5:43:17 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Buttons12

Doh, wrong thread. More coffee stat.


6 posted on 07/31/2021 5:46:21 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Buttons12; nikos1121

Can you imagine what a typo would do to a cryptogram???

Ups the difficulty at the very least :)


7 posted on 07/31/2021 5:49:14 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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To: nikos1121

Whadda you know whadda you hear.

Word after comma, then fill in the blanks


8 posted on 07/31/2021 6:21:58 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: nikos1121

9 posted on 07/31/2021 6:24:33 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: nikos1121
Previous puzzle Friday 7/30/2021:

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

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

ONE WAY TO PREVENT CONVERSATION FROM BEING BORING IS TO SAY THE WRONG THING. —FRANK SHEED

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

10 posted on 07/31/2021 6:24:47 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: nikos1121
1:00.04 (Grrrr.) Mist (sic) it by this 🤏 much. This one is virtually automatic. Third word, letter frequency, and then it's just typing


11 posted on 07/31/2021 6:34:51 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: freedumb2003

The daily cryptoquote had one once in ebonic dialect. I think it was a snippet from Mark Twain, maybe Joel Chandler Harris. It was difficult, but clever and satisfying.


12 posted on 07/31/2021 6:41:56 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Magnum44

Actions speak louder than words...


13 posted on 07/31/2021 9:06:27 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: nikos1121
Very easy one. I instantly recognized the word "LQUQM" and the rest flowed from there.

-PJ

14 posted on 07/31/2021 10:08:20 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: nikos1121
Easy one.


15 posted on 07/31/2021 10:43:56 AM PDT by Stars&StripesNE
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To: nikos1121

Just over a minute.

Most common letter, 3rd word, 2nd word, 1st word, off to the races, no wrong letter guesses.


16 posted on 07/31/2021 7:42:29 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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