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TODAY’S CRYPTOGRAM

Posted on 11/16/2021 4:46:44 AM PST by nikos1121

ASX’G INZH KUYX DG NZDXL DT HSP ASX’G INZH KUYX GUY LPX LUDXYL. —LZGJUYW IZDVY


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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 11/16/2021 4:46:44 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

From The Arkansas Gazette

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior


2 posted on 11/16/2021 4:47:31 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: Magnum44; 1_Rain_Drop

3 posted on 11/16/2021 4:50:36 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Don’t look back.


4 posted on 11/16/2021 4:53:21 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: 4Liberty; A_perfect_lady; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; ...
Previous puzzle Monday 11/15/2021

ZXZCN IMUZ NHO KMV, NHO’CZ CZTHCV: KWZV NHO PHRZ, NHO FMZ B PMIIPZ. —QZHCQZ BPPZV RC.

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

EVERY TIME YOU WIN, YOU’RE REBORN: WHEN YOU LOSE, YOU DIE A LITTLE. —GEORGE ALLEN SR.

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

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5 posted on 11/16/2021 4:59:11 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: ComputerGuy
Damn, too good a clue.


6 posted on 11/16/2021 5:01:14 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: nikos1121

Didn’t time myself, Computer Guy’s clue gave away the author, it was just as fast as I can type. I posted my clue before I solved it.


7 posted on 11/16/2021 5:04:41 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

You may be cool, but you’ll never be [TODAY’S AUTHOR] sitting on the bumper of a Packard, grabbing a smoke, outside a billiard parlor in Harlem cool.


8 posted on 11/16/2021 5:05:57 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Put your hands together and get on your knees to solve this one.


9 posted on 11/16/2021 5:21:44 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: nikos1121

10 posted on 11/16/2021 6:07:04 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I wouldn’t have known it was him from that photo.


11 posted on 11/16/2021 6:10:35 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Me neither, it’s just a cool photograph, once you know who the subject is. I saw your clue before ComputerGuy’s. Your clue gave me suspicions, but CG’s gave the show away to me.


12 posted on 11/16/2021 6:29:05 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Wa
s that a favorite expression of his?


13 posted on 11/16/2021 8:57:42 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121
Easy. One minute. I started with the last letter of the contraction, then the most common letter and the most common word, then the rest flowed from there.

-PJ

14 posted on 11/16/2021 9:00:43 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

Me too.


15 posted on 11/16/2021 11:23:00 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: nikos1121
Spoiler Alert: Heard it in high school, attributed to him.
16 posted on 11/16/2021 12:47:19 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Check your email.


17 posted on 11/17/2021 4:42:08 AM PST by nikos1121
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