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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 02/03/2023 7:31:39 AM PST by nikos1121

To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

From The Arkansas Gazette

5 minutes good
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2 minutes superior
1 amazing

2 posted on 02/03/2023 7:32:35 AM PST by nikos1121

3 posted on 02/03/2023 7:41:29 AM PST by GunRunner

5 posted on 02/03/2023 7:47:23 AM PST by GunRunner

Do you have a ping list for these?

6 posted on 02/03/2023 7:48:09 AM PST by GunRunner

8 posted on 02/03/2023 8:17:47 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))

10 posted on 02/03/2023 8:27:30 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

I was waiting for my wife at a medical appointment today, and had to do this one without electronic aid or paper, reading it on my phone. Not very hard, in this case.

14 posted on 02/03/2023 10:37:28 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

A picture is worth 1000 words, but obviously you get a better exchange rate over there.

15 posted on 02/03/2023 11:06:49 AM PST by scrabblehack

16 posted on 02/03/2023 1:05:27 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

Easy one today. Less than a minute.

I’ve always wanted to see the Northern Lights. And a moose.

17 posted on 02/03/2023 3:33:18 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)

My pet rock must have a higher IQ that I do.

Totally lost in the mist.

And after reading the pings, REALLY feel dumb.

First time.

Most likely, last time. LOL

I see comments and no helpful clues at all. None. Zip. Nada.

LOL (Sigh)

18 posted on 02/03/2023 4:02:02 PM PST by Notthereyet (NotThereYet. )

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