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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 03/02/2023 6:03:45 AM PST 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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1 minute or less is amazing


2 posted on 03/02/2023 6:05:21 AM PST by nikos1121
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Previous puzzle Tuesday, February 28, 2023

UVITY OM STOEF HVNX AVD’YT EVH NVQTX WEX EVH STOEF XTMHYVATX SA OH. —CWXVEEW

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

POWER IS BEING TOLD YOU’RE NOT LOVED AND NOT BEING DESTROYED BY IT. —MADONNA

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

4 posted on 03/02/2023 6:10:59 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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5 posted on 03/02/2023 6:20:13 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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RD R opened it for me.


7 posted on 03/02/2023 6:24:28 AM PST by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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Heck, I wouldn't want a XNNG, I'd just want this person ...


10 posted on 03/02/2023 6:45:59 AM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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Wait. Who else on on this isle with me?


13 posted on 03/02/2023 7:56:10 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Don’t send in that charity donation. They’ll find you.


14 posted on 03/02/2023 8:11:50 AM PST by scrabblehack
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The first time I heard this, it was actually Pat Buchanan in the debates for the GOP nomination in 1999. The moderator asked this question, and Dubya answered The Bible, and Buchanan answered this quote. If I remember correctly.


18 posted on 03/02/2023 11:16:54 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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