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Today's Cryptogram

Posted on 03/26/2022 4:16:39 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

TKKB EUQQFWY CXPP KNFQ BKKWY RZUR RZF VFYR FBODURXKQ DUQQKR. - DPUWFQDF RZKEUY



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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 03/26/2022 4:16:39 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; ...

If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.

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


2 posted on 03/26/2022 4:17:59 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Previous puzzle Friday, 3/25/22

JDXJ FU AWS PAAG JDFWP XHALJ JDFU KACYG — JDSCS XCS XYKXOU ULCS JA HS TACS UVCFWPU. —YLMO TXLG TAWJPATSCO

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

THAT IS ONE GOOD THING ABOUT THIS WORLD — THERE ARE ALWAYS SURE TO BE MORE SPRINGS. —LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 03/26/2022 4:20:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Good one to start the weekend!!!!

I think the quote pertains to your pet too.

Start with word “6” and you’re off to the races at ramming speed!!!


4 posted on 03/26/2022 4:35:34 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Please and thank you, please and thank you
These are the nice words you can say
Please and thank you, please and thank you
Say them every day


5 posted on 03/26/2022 4:46:12 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

May God look over him. I hope he gets well soon.


6 posted on 03/26/2022 4:46:55 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I pledge allegiance to Hedy Lamarr)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

I remember going to a birthday party when I was probably around 8 years old.

The mother was Jewish, and we were all seated at the big table. There must have been 10 to 12 of us little kids.

She personally served us, and I recall vividly how each time that she’d put a piece of cake on our plate, she’s say:

“I haven’t heard any thank yous! I’m not hearing any thank yous!”

Of course, we were all saying “Thank you, Mrs Goldstein” to the point of it being a cacophony of little voices continually repeating the phrase, but that wasn’t enough for her, we had to repeat it over and over again.

I spoke to a friend the other day, for the first time, in like 25 years, and we were reminiscing about things, and you know we both brought that up.

What’s my point? Only, some parents will not bother to teach their kids or their friends about good manners when they’re growing up.


7 posted on 03/26/2022 5:27:13 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

A day without “Today’s Cryptogram” is like a day without sunshine....


8 posted on 03/26/2022 5:28:38 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

9 posted on 03/26/2022 7:00:54 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; nikos1121

I would have used this as my clue:

https://media.giphy.com/media/KkLu2XUnanIs0/giphy.gif

But it might have been viewed as a spoiler.


10 posted on 03/26/2022 7:09:17 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Magnum44

Key Largo, I presume.


11 posted on 03/26/2022 7:52:33 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Magnum44

I grew up in NYC, and took the subway thousands of times. Late at night there are lots of empty cars. Before F’ing John Vliet Lindsey began the long arduous process of screwing the place up there had not been a murder on the subway in 25 years.


12 posted on 03/26/2022 7:55:43 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I thought it was ‘the big sleep’


13 posted on 03/26/2022 8:19:55 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
About a minute. I started with the most common letter and most common word. That got me word five and the last name of the author. That opened up the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

14 posted on 03/26/2022 9:51:11 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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