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Today's Cryptogram

Posted on 03/05/2023 4:24:06 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets

PRT JTDJIT LRD RDIG PRBP DYM VYIPYMT HQ BK DJJMTQQHXT JBPMHBMVRA, PRTA GDK'P LBKP PD BGZHP PRBP PRT VYMMTKP RHTMBMVRA ZHNRP UT JMTGHVBPTG DK VDZJTPTKVT. - FDMGBK JTPTMQDK



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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 03/05/2023 4:24:06 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Didn’t we just solve this one?


2 posted on 03/05/2023 4:27:25 AM PST by MustKnowHistory
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

Ooops: I reposted yesterday’s. Need Caffeine. Today’s is below. No irony intended. Regrets.

Correct Cryptogram:

LXY YNX GSHIWPXHYWDK IAJH WHI YNX DXFXD AG XFXUTYNEHL TAS IA JEDD UEKX - PEONWXD QAUIWH

You know the drill.


3 posted on 03/05/2023 4:27:46 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Previous puzzle Saturday, March 4, 2023

PRT JTDJIT LRD RDIG PRBP DYM VYIPYMT HQ BK DJJMTQQHXT JBPMHBMVRA, PRTA GDK'P LBKP PD BGZHP PRBP PRT VYMMTKP RHTMBMVRA ZHNRP UT JMTGHVBPTG DK VDZJTPTKVT. - FDMGBK JTPTMQDK

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

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence. - Jordan Peterson

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

4 posted on 03/05/2023 4:28:06 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Thank you! We appreciate all you do!


5 posted on 03/05/2023 4:28:57 AM PST by MustKnowHistory
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6 posted on 03/05/2023 4:29:09 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Didn’t we have this one yesterday?


7 posted on 03/05/2023 4:33:52 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

8 posted on 03/05/2023 4:36:02 AM PST by Baldwin77 (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -Tacitus)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

My bad, look here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4135800/posts?page=3#3


9 posted on 03/05/2023 4:38:22 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
True in everything. Basics + practice + practice + practice !
10 posted on 03/05/2023 4:39:10 AM PST by Baldwin77 (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -Tacitus)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Well, if those doing most of them complaining have a below-average I.Q. and other issues........


11 posted on 03/05/2023 4:45:40 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Baldwin77

I like your clue….. very nice.


12 posted on 03/05/2023 4:56:29 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Great Quote…. I like it.

Little side story:
I once danced with the author. Hubby and I had to attend a charity event to represent the company he worked for. PEONWXD QAUIWH, the gentleman he is, danced with each lady there.


13 posted on 03/05/2023 5:02:09 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Which is why phonics and memorizing times tables needs to be brought back into schools.


14 posted on 03/05/2023 5:03:54 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

No, you’re special;)


15 posted on 03/05/2023 5:04:08 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I am not a fan of rote learning, but I agree practice makes perfect. I am not sure that memorizing times tables is nearly as understanding how numbers work, understanding the advantages of weighted base (10, if you like) number systems, understanding how language works. I am so glad that the nuns made us diagram sentences.


16 posted on 03/05/2023 5:07:19 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I do think we have to memorize the basics. After that, it’s more about understanding.


17 posted on 03/05/2023 5:13:40 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

18 posted on 03/05/2023 5:31:19 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: A_perfect_lady

Multiplication tables do not afford insight. Problem solving does. Solve lots or problems, and the multiplication tables will stick. Memorize multiplication tables, and you will forget them the day after the exam.


19 posted on 03/05/2023 6:04:58 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I disagree.
I memorized the “times” tables and somewhere down the line I figured out what they meant and how they worked...all on my own....prolly when we started to do actual arithmetic problems.
At least that’s the way I remember it, but the 70+ years since may have provided a lot of clouds. ☺


20 posted on 03/05/2023 6:35:17 AM PST by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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