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Today's Cryptogram

Posted on 09/17/2023 5:31:28 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

ZYO ZKCZY ZYEZ LI ICDDKOIIOF UV RKLOTFI LI ZYO KOEFLOIZ BOEDXT XR ZYO OTOSV. - KXUOKZ GXCLI IZOPOTIXT



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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 09/17/2023 5:31:28 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
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior


2 posted on 09/17/2023 5:31:49 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Previous puzzle Saturday, September 16, 2023

UTC, NDGQKYGQN Y'HQ RQXYQHQZ ON GOSC ON NYB YGIDNNYRXQ KTYSWN RQMDJQ RJQOFMONK. - KTQ JQZ LPQQS, OXYAQ YS UDSZQJXOSZ

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

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - The Red Queen, Alice in Wonderland

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 09/17/2023 5:32:18 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Defining Example

4 posted on 09/17/2023 5:34:06 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Describes our corrupt press to a T.


5 posted on 09/17/2023 5:44:55 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

This is our mainstream media


6 posted on 09/17/2023 5:52:09 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
FBI be like:
7 posted on 09/17/2023 5:53:23 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Ooops, EC you beat me to it


8 posted on 09/17/2023 5:53:25 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Word two is not a concern for today’s media.


9 posted on 09/17/2023 5:54:08 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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10 posted on 09/17/2023 6:11:36 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Baldwin77

11 posted on 09/17/2023 6:14:50 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

;-)


12 posted on 09/17/2023 6:32:38 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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13 posted on 09/17/2023 6:49:07 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Until he suffers adverse consequences, then no.

I’m trying to think of a good example of a leader who was done in by a bunch of yes-men. There’s a former supervisor of mine but the name would mean nothing to you.

I know there are more out there but I’m drawing a blank.


14 posted on 09/17/2023 7:20:57 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

“When someone tells you the truth, they’re trying to help you. When they lie to you, they are trying to manipulate you.”


15 posted on 09/17/2023 8:54:15 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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16 posted on 09/17/2023 1:19:43 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Hmm....when my colleagues were agreeing with my former boss, maybe they were trying to wrangle a promotion on a sinking ship...if so, it didn’t work. He was replaced before that could happen.


17 posted on 09/18/2023 4:32:03 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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