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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 08/19/2021 3:18:00 AM PDT by nikos1121

WQ QSLHZ IN JNCABNCWZH QN YWGH AHNAFH QKHWB BWYKQZ … WQ QSLHZ IN CNIHM QN BHZAHJQ QKH WIUWGWUOSF. —KSBGHM CWFL



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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 08/19/2021 3:18:00 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 08/19/2021 3:19:15 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121
Previous puzzle Wednsday 8/18/2021

LEJIJ SJWSPJ EZAJ TW QIJZVC ZTQ TW EWSJC ZTQ ZCSNIZHNWTC, PNOJ KJUWVJC QDPP ZTQ Z VJZTNTXPJCC LNPQJITJCC. —HWVVB QWDXPZC

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

WHERE PEOPLE HAVE NO DREAMS AND NO HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS, LIFE BECOMES DULL AND A MEANINGLESS WILDERNESS. —TOMMY DOUGLAS

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 08/19/2021 3:24:08 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
1:45.68 AHNAFH is a familiar pattern.


4 posted on 08/19/2021 3:30:02 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: nikos1121

Everyone likes to spot AHNAFH in a puzzle
Also, lots of opportunity to place your vowels.
Got two vowels in the wrong spots on my first pass


5 posted on 08/19/2021 3:38:08 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Seriously?


6 posted on 08/19/2021 3:40:12 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Not too subtle. I was out of ideas.


7 posted on 08/19/2021 4:29:41 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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8 posted on 08/19/2021 5:21:02 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Yes, AHNAFH was my starting point and it flowed from there.


9 posted on 08/19/2021 7:30:18 AM PDT by Kipp
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To: nikos1121
About four minutes. I mixed up a few vowels early on, but recognized the AHNAFH word right from the start.

-PJ

10 posted on 08/19/2021 8:18:58 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: nikos1121

For some reason I was able to put down the first three words after the ellipsis as if they were clear text. Then it was easy.


11 posted on 08/19/2021 8:49:04 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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