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Today's Cryptogram

Posted on 04/09/2023 4:19:49 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

KLNWHE ELZ AFNV WH NWHZD EFVGP, HFDH FQ TZD GDV GDUZAH HGP. NGWHZ PFRN XFPH GDV ENWRTCLH LWUL; HWDU, PZ LZGMZDH GDV ZGNEL NZCAP. – KLGNAZH JZHAZP



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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 04/09/2023 4:19:49 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.

4 minutes good
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2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior


2 posted on 04/09/2023 4:20:24 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Previous puzzle Saturday, April 8, 2023

KGCDYXQIJ KYFHIJD QK XHWWDIQIJ - YXDFD QK H JFDHY KQMDIZD GI DHFYX YGTHE, H JFDHY KQMDIZD HIT KYQMMIDKK. YXD PXGMD DHFYX VDDWK KQMDIZD LDZHAKD YXD VQIJ QK HKMDDW. JGT XHK TQDT QI YXD UMDKX HIT XDMM YFDCLMDK PQYX UDHF. - DWQWXHIQAK GU ZEWFAK

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

OMETHING STRANGE IS HAPPENING - THERE IS A GREAT SILENCE ON EARTH TODAY, A GREAT SILENCE AND STILLNESS. THE WHOLE EARTH KEEPS SILENCE BECAUSE THE KING IS ASLEEP. GOD HAS DIED IN THE FLESH AND HELL TREMBLES WITH FEAR. - EPIPHANIUS OF CYPRUS

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 04/09/2023 4:20:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

4 posted on 04/09/2023 4:22:02 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

5 posted on 04/09/2023 4:48:17 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (First they came for Trump ...)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Tough one today !


6 posted on 04/09/2023 4:48:53 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (First they came for Trump ...)
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To: Baldwin77

HE is risen indeed!!!!!


7 posted on 04/09/2023 5:12:35 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Rhyming one today.


8 posted on 04/09/2023 5:19:30 AM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim IgnatowskD)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

9 posted on 04/09/2023 5:36:56 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Happy Easter.

An aside: The cryptogram is supposed to be fun. Solving it is supposed to be fun. Posting a clue is supposed to be fun. I have been posting humorous clues almost without fail since the day Nikos started the cryptogram thread. Yesterday, in my usual form, I posted a clue to the biblical quote. My well known and often seen on other threads, Monty python clue, intended to be humorous, was censored by mods. I hope that in the future this thread doesn’t become so serious that one can’t have some fun participating.

Again, happy Easter to all. I am going to Easter service now, to ask for forgiveness for my transgressions (and my demented sense of humor)

10 posted on 04/09/2023 5:53:20 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Neither HFDH nor LWUL is “THAT.”
The author had a certain method about him.


11 posted on 04/09/2023 6:37:56 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Magnum44; PJ-Comix; John Semmens

“Monty python clue, intended to be humorous, was censored by mods. I hope that in the future this thread doesn’t become so serious that one can’t have some fun participating.”

FR continues to have some very humorless, constipated types.
The humor posts by PJ and other satirical ones from Semmens were victims of these empty creatures.


12 posted on 04/09/2023 7:41:24 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Magnum44

Please never change. Half the fun of cryptogram is your posts.


13 posted on 04/09/2023 11:22:42 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Happy Resurrection Day, Y’all !!


14 posted on 04/09/2023 1:36:33 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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