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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 01/25/2023 2:45:17 AM PST by nikos1121

Q AQIQDLEB LW RYQD UEJ DQNG RYGB UEJ IQB BE VEBKGH DQNG RYQD UEJ’AG SGGB DQNLBK. —GQHV RLVWEB


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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 01/25/2023 2:45:17 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

From The Arkansas Gazette, a clever little quote

5 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
1 you get to kiss Dolly Pardon
Over 7 minutes you must be kissed by Joe Biden


2 posted on 01/25/2023 2:48:29 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; Magnum44; 1_Rain_Drop; Apple Pan Dowdy; ComputerGuy
Here's an obtuse clue for you
3 posted on 01/25/2023 2:50:26 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; Magnum44; 1_Rain_Drop; Apple Pan Dowdy; ComputerGuy
And one more
4 posted on 01/25/2023 2:52:58 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

I call it retirement !


5 posted on 01/25/2023 3:02:43 AM PST by Baldwin77
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To: nikos1121

..and when you get back from one, you need another one.


6 posted on 01/25/2023 3:04:14 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: nikos1121

Retirement is a drag. I never get a day off.


7 posted on 01/25/2023 3:21:14 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy
Every day is a weekend, I say.

-PJ

8 posted on 01/25/2023 3:35:08 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

Maybe I need to look at it that way. I spend most of my time running errands. For others. A week of doing nothing is what I need.


9 posted on 01/25/2023 3:41:17 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Baldwin77

Me too, Baldwin. I live in a AQIQDLEB.


10 posted on 01/25/2023 4:02:10 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: nikos1121
Previous puzzle Sunday, January 22, 2023

IXYMHG, TZG KPQ SHZE XM? YDEXGJ'Y YOHHM TZGMZMZ. MSH YMEZXGY PR JEZYY DQYSXGJ MSEPQJS MSH YGPO. MSH YPGJ PR LQAY YOHIIXGJ PG MSH UXGH. MSH MHGAHE MXFDZGX PR Z LZLK EPLXG'Y SHZEM. YDEXGJ. — AXZGH REPIPU ZGA ZGAEHO YTSGHXAHE

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

LISTEN, CAN YOU HEAR IT? SPRING'S SWEET CANTATA. THE STRAINS OF GRASS PUSHING THROUGH THE SNOW. THE SONG OF BUDS SWELLING ON THE VINE. THE TENDER TIMPANI OF A BABY ROBIN'S HEART. SPRING. — DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

11 posted on 01/25/2023 4:08:08 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: nikos1121

12 posted on 01/25/2023 4:12:29 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: nikos1121

Oh, I thought that was what “early retirement” was.


13 posted on 01/25/2023 4:26:56 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: ComputerGuy
A week of doing nothing is what I need

The hard part is not feeling guilty about "doing nothing." Once you've accomplished that, you're playing with house money

14 posted on 01/25/2023 5:05:58 AM PST by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Meet the Griswalds. 🤣


15 posted on 01/25/2023 5:22:33 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: nikos1121

16 posted on 01/25/2023 5:28:59 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Baldwin77

You bet.


17 posted on 01/25/2023 10:04:26 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: nikos1121

The three Bees. (Benintendi, Bradley, Betts.) Easily the best defensive outfield in baseball at the time.


18 posted on 01/25/2023 10:50:13 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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