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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 01/05/2022 4:47:29 AM PST by nikos1121

VIG EGPAV BXUGBGWV SA XL SBCXKVPWRG VX PEE WPVQKG. VIG GWVSKG XRGPW SA PLLGRVGZ DF P CGDDEG. —DEPSAG CPARPE


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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 01/05/2022 4:47:29 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 01/05/2022 4:48:23 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Fastest one I ever solved. But I have to admit that I have heard this quote before.

I think I will now go for a walk in the woods, and drop a stone on the trail and see if it changes everything.


3 posted on 01/05/2022 4:58:53 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: nikos1121

4 posted on 01/05/2022 5:01:12 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: nikos1121

Single letter, then PEE (the word, not the action), first word, then off to the races.


5 posted on 01/05/2022 5:02:12 AM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
I don’t believe in this either...


6 posted on 01/05/2022 5:05:05 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: nikos1121

I used to speak his language.


7 posted on 01/05/2022 5:26:02 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

It was the first language I learned.


8 posted on 01/05/2022 7:48:33 AM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: nikos1121

1
1 1
1 2 1
1 3 3 1
1 4 6 4 1


9 posted on 01/05/2022 10:40:13 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: nikos1121
A couple of minutes. I started with the double-letter word, then the most common letter and most common word. That got me the second word and the two-letter words, and then the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

10 posted on 01/05/2022 10:54:52 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: ComputerGuy
One of these quotes that make you go
11 posted on 01/05/2022 11:28:11 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Too smart for me.


12 posted on 01/05/2022 11:35:11 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

What do you think would effect it the most?

A stone or someone peeing in it?


13 posted on 01/05/2022 11:38:36 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

If you get the first word the, answer comes quickly.


14 posted on 01/05/2022 11:39:57 AM PST by penguinhunter
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To: 4Liberty; A_perfect_lady; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; babyfreep; ..
Previous puzzle Tuesday 1/4/2022

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

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

IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR CIVILIZATION TO FLOW BACKWARDS WHILE THERE IS YOUTH IN THE WORLD. —HELEN KELLER

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

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15 posted on 01/05/2022 4:20:43 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: nikos1121

I forgot to start my stop watch :( It was fast, probably under a minute.


16 posted on 01/05/2022 4:23:30 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: scrabblehack

GMTA


17 posted on 01/05/2022 4:23:50 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: scrabblehack

18 posted on 01/05/2022 4:26:11 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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