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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 03/14/2022 8:13:42 AM PDT by nikos1121

OVZVBO QVKDY VC WVIH DEIVBO MLTK WLXHK WVR EBP SLKJVBO VD LZHK MLTK YHEP. —JEKLW QTKBHDD


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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 03/14/2022 8:13:42 AM PDT 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 03/14/2022 8:14:29 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

3 posted on 03/14/2022 8:42:18 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Magnum44
One of my favorite funny people. Never thought about this description before, but you can force it to work alright.
4 posted on 03/14/2022 8:49:05 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

VBO.


5 posted on 03/14/2022 8:54:09 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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To: Magnum44
I couldn't figure it out until I saw this clue, then it all fell into place.

-PJ

6 posted on 03/14/2022 9:40:12 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: MustKnowHistory

LOL…. I didn’t know what VBO meant and had to look it up. Found an article titled, “Women are embracing their VBOs”.


7 posted on 03/14/2022 9:40:39 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: MustKnowHistory

Oh my goodness, I just looked back at the CG and realized the VBO letters were in there multiple times…. So that’s what you were referring too I guess. But strangely enough, in the article I mentioned finding, VBO was acronym for something that closely relates to the subject matter of the CG.


8 posted on 03/14/2022 9:48:44 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Ha!!!!

Think “Vaginosis”


9 posted on 03/14/2022 9:55:39 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Sorry. I am getting more terse with each passing year.


10 posted on 03/14/2022 10:13:48 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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To: MustKnowHistory

Good clue, thanks. Was struggling today until I saw that.


11 posted on 03/14/2022 12:06:50 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Moltke

Endings of words is usually the last thing i look at. So it took me a while too.


12 posted on 03/14/2022 12:10:14 PM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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To: nikos1121

No, nothing horrible like that. It’s gestation.


13 posted on 03/14/2022 1:28:49 PM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: 4Liberty; A_perfect_lady; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; babyfreep; ..
Previous puzzle Sunday 3/13/22

FBKUNEDZY DP N IFNVZY IXZPF FRRFUEP BFVFYB ZY IXZ XZSBP DE DY XDP XNYBP NYB NE IXZL DE DP NDLFB. - HZPFVX PENSDY

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

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. - Joseph Stalin

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14 posted on 03/14/2022 3:46:06 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: MustKnowHistory
Heard the quote here:


15 posted on 03/14/2022 4:47:04 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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