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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 03/30/2022 4:19:43 AM PDT by nikos1121

RPOTLVGU JY VJFGRGYY; JFPTJMPVJWM LPY MW PTG; IUGPFY PUG DWUGBGU. —QPRV IJYMGN


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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 03/30/2022 4:19:43 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 03/30/2022 4:20:18 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Magnum44; 1_Rain_Drop; Apple Pan Dowdy; ComputerGuy
Today's author, I might add, is rolling over in his grave.......


3 posted on 03/30/2022 4:23:27 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Timely quote. You’re right the author is spinning in his grave.


4 posted on 03/30/2022 4:30:46 AM PDT by freedom1st (Build the Wall)
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To: nikos1121

Yes, the author gave us such a precious gift and like everything else the progressives touch, they are corrupting and destroying it .


5 posted on 03/30/2022 4:35:37 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: nikos1121
Today's author, I might add, is rolling over in his grave.......

Or his freezer.

6 posted on 03/30/2022 4:51:39 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: tnlibertarian

haha!


7 posted on 03/30/2022 4:54:48 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Who else could it be?


8 posted on 03/30/2022 5:09:54 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: nikos1121

9 posted on 03/30/2022 6:26:49 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: nikos1121

Weird. Hal’s Helper didn’t make a big enough space between words five and six. It looked like one word.


10 posted on 03/30/2022 7:00:01 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: enumerated

You doing these on your cell phone?


11 posted on 03/30/2022 10:26:54 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Yes - iPhone.

I try it first without Hal’s Helper, but half the time I get stuck - the Helper is conducive yo trial and error.


12 posted on 03/30/2022 11:55:45 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; ...
Previous puzzle Tuesday, 3/29/22

XCE’UN GCK UNFOOX TFVCEW EGKZO XCE’UN F DNQ MZWDNGWNU. —YFUUZN TZWLNU

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

YOU’RE NOT REALLY FAMOUS UNTIL YOU’RE A PEW DISPENSER. —CARRIE FISHER

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

13 posted on 03/30/2022 5:21:24 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: nikos1121
QPRV, I'm glad you're not here to see what they did to your IUGPFY.


14 posted on 03/30/2022 5:34:56 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: nikos1121

Got 4th word first and it opened it up. You are spot on with your thoughts on what author is doing.


15 posted on 03/31/2022 3:33:43 AM PDT by southernindymom
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To: nikos1121
I started it and then put it aside, only getting back to it today.

It was too short for the usual start, so I guessed at JY, which turned out to be correct. I then added the most common letter, which got me the last word. That got me the rest of the puzzle.

-PJ

16 posted on 04/02/2022 4:24:43 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

Funny how people started the puzzle differently.

I’m fixin’ to do today’s.


17 posted on 04/03/2022 4:00:40 AM PDT by nikos1121
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