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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 03/09/2023 1:48:03 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

From The Arkansas Gazette

5 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
1 minute or less is off the chart


2 posted on 03/09/2023 1:48:55 AM PST by nikos1121
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4 posted on 03/09/2023 2:26:02 AM PST by Mr_Moonlight (Ich bin ein Irredeemable Deplorable)
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unnggg!

11 posted on 03/09/2023 4:52:35 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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I ask, why would I do that?


12 posted on 03/09/2023 5:12:37 AM PST by Baldwin77 (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -Tacitus)
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15 posted on 03/09/2023 6:26:43 AM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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That’s the first one I’ve ever solved one of these in word order without skipping ahead. The only slight exception - I peripherally noticed the double letters in word four while I was working on word three. Otherwise, I took each word as it came…. fun.


17 posted on 03/09/2023 8:41:51 AM PST by enumerated ( )
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those easy words are not SEE or TOO.


18 posted on 03/09/2023 8:54:04 AM PST by scrabblehack
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