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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 05/22/2023 2:54:02 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy

UPO QWW AZMGLAQWK QBM XQC. FLOZPSO AZMGLAQWK KSAZ QK ZDCBPYMU QUC PIDYMU, RPB MIQGHWM, OZMBM FPSWC XM UP FQD OP GQVM FQOMB, Q NLOQW LUYBMCLMUO LU XMMB. — CQNM XQBBD


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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 05/22/2023 2:54:02 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

Enjoy today’s cryptogram and have a MARVELOUS MONDAY.


2 posted on 05/22/2023 2:55:36 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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3 posted on 05/22/2023 2:57:42 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

I got the author straight off. Mr Language Person.


4 posted on 05/22/2023 3:00:38 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

He’s not here


5 posted on 05/22/2023 3:03:22 AM PDT 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: Apple Pan Dowdy

Uhh, that’s gonna produce a bad crop

Just sayin’


6 posted on 05/22/2023 3:04:35 AM PDT 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: Apple Pan Dowdy

Elementary, my dear Watson


7 posted on 05/22/2023 3:06:06 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
Previous puzzle Saturday, May 20th, 2023

KDXIX PB W KPFX PA KDX WOOWPIB UO NXA, RDPMD KWHXA WK KDX OVUUF, VXWFB UA KU OUIKYAX. UNPKKXF, WVV KDX SUEWJX UO KDXPI VPOX PB TUYAF PA BDWVVURB WAF PA NPBXIPXB. - RPVVPWN BDWHXBCXWIX

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

THERE IS A TIDE IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN, WHICH TAKEN AT THE FLOOD, LEADS ON TO FORTUNE. OMITTED, ALL THE VOYAGE OF THEIR LIFE IS BOUND IN SHALLOWS AND IN MISERIES. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

8 posted on 05/22/2023 3:24:52 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Someone had to do it eventually. Might as well be me.

9 posted on 05/22/2023 3:31:19 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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10 posted on 05/22/2023 3:32:57 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

But how do I use zinc oxide?

11 posted on 05/22/2023 4:40:25 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

I’ll never forget his essay on the colonoscopy.


12 posted on 05/22/2023 4:42:40 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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13 posted on 05/22/2023 5:18:01 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (First they came for Trump ...)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
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Aaahhh, XMMB...the mother of us all - Jean Shepard

14 posted on 05/22/2023 5:55:51 AM PDT by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: ComputerGuy

Thanks


15 posted on 05/22/2023 9:17:17 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Need some carbon too...C2H5OH


16 posted on 05/22/2023 7:21:50 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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