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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 01/04/2022 3:58:56 AM PST by nikos1121

GC GJ IZC FZJJGQAP LZD RGMGAGYWCGZI CZ LAZS QWRTSWDBJ SNGAP CNPDP GJ UZKCN GI CNP SZDAB. —NPAPI TPAAPD


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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 01/04/2022 3:58:56 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 01/04/2022 3:59:28 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

The author never met my girls.


3 posted on 01/04/2022 4:07:56 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

I had a hard time getting UZKCN, and once I did, I had to disagree with the author. While there is some merit in UZKCN today there is less and less.


4 posted on 01/04/2022 4:13:18 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

The first four words solved themselves.


5 posted on 01/04/2022 4:15:57 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

I had the same trouble and thought the same thing.


6 posted on 01/04/2022 4:22:27 AM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: 4Liberty; A_perfect_lady; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; babyfreep; ..
Previous puzzle Monday 1/3/2022

SRK MBEGS LWV ZKSG SRK DUGSKE, SRK GKXDVA LWV ZKSG SRK GRKOO. —WVAEKN XWEVKZBK

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

THE FIRST MAN GETS THE OYSTER, THE SECOND MAN GETS THE SHELL. —ANDREW CARNEGIE

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

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7 posted on 01/04/2022 4:31:05 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: tnlibertarian

Ditto.


8 posted on 01/04/2022 4:33:55 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: nikos1121

9 posted on 01/04/2022 4:34:51 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: nikos1121

01:22.53 Pretty much just typing. I had some trouble with UZKCN but like others have observed, UZKCN is more likely the enemy than the saviour of RGMGAGYWCGZI.


10 posted on 01/04/2022 4:36:50 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: nikos1121

Easy for me this AM

I SAW the letter pattern for words one and two.

Then, other pieces fell into place


11 posted on 01/04/2022 4:39:51 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Yeah, sometimes it seems that, rather than the answer, UZKCN is the cause of the problem.


12 posted on 01/04/2022 4:47:14 AM PST by stormhill
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Yep, iFag smartphones have stripped most benefit.


13 posted on 01/04/2022 10:14:17 AM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: nikos1121
As fast as I could type. I started with the first letter of the first two two-letter words. Then I added the word ending on the long fifth word. The rest flowed from there.

-PJ

14 posted on 01/04/2022 10:51:18 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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