Posted on 07/04/2022 2:31:10 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy
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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.
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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.
Happy Independence Day, enjoy today’s CG puzzle and have a Marvelous Monday.
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Your image tells what it’s really all about.
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Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. - Abraham Lincoln
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As I recall he thought it should be on July 2.
The second car hadn’t been built yet
The nuns told us they selected XX to write it because he had such nice handwriting. In his book, whose title is the name of today’s author, David McCullough briefly describes the drafting process. It was a collaborative effort, though XX did write the first draft. The first draft contained antislavery language, which was removed at the insistence of the southern colonies. (Today’s author was opposed to the peculiar institution, and wanted to outlaw it in Massachusetts, but the slave trading lobby had King George’s ear.)
Shades of Manifest Destiny in that quote.
I do not understand
It’s from the musical 1776.
If you’re familiar with it, you’d know the characters involved.
Enough said. 😉
Happy Independence Day! For the first time I did not use the frequency count of the letters. I stated by guessing the author.
Not familiar with it.
My #4 was referring to children...our nation’s future
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