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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 12/10/2021 6:31:56 AM PST by nikos1121

HW GIQQFFE BS MBUF, CWI SFFE HPAFF HPBSNG: V ZBGPLWSF, V LVQJLWSF VSE V UISSC LWSF. —AFLV XQFSHBAF


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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 12/10/2021 6:31:56 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 12/10/2021 6:32:41 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Great singer.


3 posted on 12/10/2021 6:39:19 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

Red


4 posted on 12/10/2021 6:47:52 AM PST by occamrzr06
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To: ComputerGuy

I had two letters of the first name, guessed at the name, and dismissed the idea. Then came back when the puzzle was solved, and I’ll be damned....


5 posted on 12/10/2021 6:48:34 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ComputerGuy

Yes, I like her


6 posted on 12/10/2021 6:51:10 AM PST by southernindymom
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To: ComputerGuy
Yes, a great singer, and I make no bones about it that she is one of my favorites.
7 posted on 12/10/2021 6:52:17 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: nikos1121

Oh my, that was an easy one. I read the first part in about 10 seconds.


8 posted on 12/10/2021 6:57:25 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: nikos1121
Pretty easy for me. I started with the one-letter word, which got me the last three-letter word. The second to last word just came to me, and the rest flowed from there.

-PJ

9 posted on 12/10/2021 7:02:38 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: nikos1121

10 posted on 12/10/2021 7:26:54 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: 4Liberty; A_perfect_lady; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; babyfreep; ..
Previous puzzle Thursday 12/9/2021

PESENO LIP LERPC CXDAUDTBDU IP IQCKUC RPTDUU CXDO LIP LIQQO I MKLCRQD KP CXDKQ XDIN SDJEQD CXDO MIKPC KC. —LTIRND AEPDC

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

NOBODY CAN COUNT THEMSELVES AN ARTIST UNLESS THEY CAN CARRY A PICTURE IN THEIR HEAD BEFORE THEY PAINT IT. —CLAUDE MONET

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

If you want on or off the daily cryptogram ping list reply to this post and state your intention: ON or OFF.

11 posted on 12/10/2021 8:35:25 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Magnum44

Is it a little bit creepy that the guy on the “Operation” board is awake through all of these surgical procedures?


12 posted on 12/10/2021 8:57:25 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Imagine, if you will, a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it. )
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To: nikos1121

13 posted on 12/10/2021 9:43:25 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: nikos1121

1:53.71 Got a late start because I had my eyes dilated this morning. (I’m fine.) It was a challenge posting the solution.


14 posted on 12/10/2021 2:10:50 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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