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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 08/17/2022 4:06:14 AM PDT by nikos1121

YH ZCW RSB VSBRL SBV JL HMLL SBV BCX JL LDJSMMSIILV, ZCW RSB MWKL XFL TCMKV. —SDZ ACLFKLM


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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 08/17/2022 4:06:14 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

From The Arkansas Gazette

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2 posted on 08/17/2022 4:07:13 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Magnum44; 1_Rain_Drop; Apple Pan Dowdy; ComputerGuy

3 posted on 08/17/2022 4:09:04 AM PDT by nikos1121
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4 posted on 08/17/2022 5:12:26 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Let’s boogie!


5 posted on 08/17/2022 5:13:55 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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In some cases, you SHOULD be humiliated...


6 posted on 08/17/2022 5:14:57 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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The key to this one is “HMLL”. You probably want the double letter on the end of a short word to be L , but that’s not possible here. So looking through the puzzle you see the L is used a lot as the last letter in a bunch of other words. So with confidence you can guess what the L is. 😁


7 posted on 08/17/2022 5:32:40 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: nikos1121

That’s a stretch.


8 posted on 08/17/2022 5:37:29 AM PDT by enumerated ( )
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that’s terrible


9 posted on 08/17/2022 7:14:30 AM PDT by nikos1121
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WTF is that? A seizure?


10 posted on 08/17/2022 10:53:00 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: doorgunner69

11 posted on 08/17/2022 12:18:35 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: nikos1121
Previous puzzle Tuesday, August 16, 2022

TONYZRY OT SWY VZFYHBHFNY BYXHBSYY. - E.C. RWYTSYBSPZ

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

SILENCE IS THE UNBEARABLE REPARTEE. - J.M. CHESTERTON

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

12 posted on 08/18/2022 3:24:59 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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