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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 09/21/2022 4:56:28 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

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2 posted on 09/21/2022 4:57:21 AM PDT by nikos1121
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Is that you, Phil?


5 posted on 09/21/2022 5:08:43 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protectionbrA)
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7 posted on 09/21/2022 5:20:27 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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I can solve cryptograms. So I got that going for me which is nice.


10 posted on 09/21/2022 7:11:44 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: nikos1121
Previous puzzle Tuesday, September 20, 2022

JQVVAXSOO AO TAXNAXB MGL LFACSO AX KLDZ HQZMAXA GJSX KLD’ZS JDXBZK. — RLJXXK YQZOLX

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

HAPPINESS IS FINDING TWO OLIVES IN YOUR MARTINI WHEN YOU’RE HUNGRY. — JOHNNY CARSON

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

12 posted on 09/21/2022 4:28:35 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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