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Today's Cryptogram

Posted on 12/10/2022 4:23:15 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets

Y'EV WVVR PNIBCYR’ NTV UJDYNYSOD KOQV LJX LJXNC-LYEV CVOXP, ORB Y BJR’N GRJF YN ODD CVN. Y’Q DVOXRYR’ PJQVNTYR’ ODD NTV NYQV. TJF, NTVR, SOR CJI VMUVSN FTON NTVC SODD “WIPYRVPP QVR” NJ NIXR YRNJ UJDYNYSP ODD ON JRSV ORB QOGV O PISSVPP JL YN? - KVJXKV FOPTYRKNJR UDIRGYNN



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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 12/10/2022 4:23:15 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

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

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2 posted on 12/10/2022 4:23:58 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Previous puzzle Friday, December 9, 2022

QA IHR MNV WFKNG QD IHR MNV WH QD. ---CNXD WQEVKI

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

IF YOU CAN DREAM IT YOU CAN DO IT. ---WALT DISNEY

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 12/10/2022 4:24:18 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Answer to the author’s question……… It is a “KOQV“ so you have to know how to cheat and be shameless and greedy enough to do so.


4 posted on 12/10/2022 4:38:16 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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5 posted on 12/10/2022 4:40:13 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

When so many of our “leaders” see is as a “KOQV”, our problem becomes evident.


6 posted on 12/10/2022 4:45:37 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: Roccus

...see IT as...


7 posted on 12/10/2022 4:46:23 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: Roccus

Good point. They obviously have no idea what it means to be a successful WIPYRVPP QVR.


8 posted on 12/10/2022 5:43:24 AM PST by enumerated ( )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

The d...

Ah, you know the rest


9 posted on 12/10/2022 6:03:08 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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To: enumerated

That would require work!
It is sooo much easier to just mouth the words some lobbyist-owned staffer places in front of them.
How they go about “messaging...(or massaging)...” those words is their only skill.


10 posted on 12/10/2022 6:44:34 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I’ve heard it said the opposite way (not by this author).


11 posted on 12/10/2022 8:37:22 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

12 posted on 12/10/2022 9:54:23 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The important thing is to keep the "narrative" going.

Unfortunately for us mere citizens the current narrative is to storytelling as a Jackson Pollock is to painting.

13 posted on 12/10/2022 10:36:30 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Today’s author, for those who do not recognize the name, is better known as UDIRGYNN of Tammany Hall, most famous for the quote, “I saw my opportunities and I took ‘em.”


14 posted on 12/10/2022 10:38:54 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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