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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 03/01/2022 1:41:35 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

From The Arkansas Gazette an easy.

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


2 posted on 03/01/2022 1:42:51 AM PST by nikos1121
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About a minute and a half. I started with the first word, then the two-letter words, then the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

4 posted on 03/01/2022 1:49:43 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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Corollary: The only way to hurt a man who has lost everything is to give him something back, broken.


10 posted on 03/01/2022 5:10:43 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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The only way to win a game of “chicken” is to tear out your steering wheel in full view of your opponent
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12 posted on 03/01/2022 6:47:47 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.w)
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