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Today's Cryptogram

Posted on 11/11/2023 4:32:38 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets

CWRG JWYOO LFTS ETC TOA, YJ SR CWYC YFR ORBC LFTS TOA:
YLR JWYOO ETC SRYFG CWRQ, ETF CWR GRYFJ VTEARQE.
YC CWR LTKEL ATSE TB CWR JZE YEA KE CWR QTFEKEL
SR SKOO FRQRQPRF CWRQ.

BTF CWR BYOORE
PG OYZFREVR PKEGTE



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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 11/11/2023 4:32:38 AM PST 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 11/11/2023 4:33:21 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Previous puzzle Friday, November 10, 2023

FE'R TDDZ RX BXZL RFZWD F SNGD BXYD F WNZ'E DYDZ IDSDSTDI QVX LDER EFDG AC. - PXNZ IFYDIR

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

YOU HAVE TO EAT OATMEAL OR YOU’LL DRY UP. ANYBODY KNOWS THAT. —KAY THOMPSON

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

3 posted on 11/11/2023 4:33:48 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets


4 posted on 11/11/2023 4:37:55 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I won’t forget them. Ever.


5 posted on 11/11/2023 4:38:09 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

They paid the ultimate price for our freedom. 😢


6 posted on 11/11/2023 4:39:58 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

7 posted on 11/11/2023 4:49:49 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
YOU HAVE TO EAT OATMEAL OR YOU’LL DRY UP. ANYBODY KNOWS THAT. —KAY THOMPSON

Hey!

8 posted on 11/11/2023 5:13:42 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

9 posted on 11/11/2023 5:13:51 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

My dad fought in WWI. Was wounded in the Battle of the Argonne Forest.

Walked with a limp and lost his hearing.

He will always be my hero. I miss him.


10 posted on 11/11/2023 5:17:23 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

11 posted on 11/11/2023 5:28:51 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: grey_whiskers

12 posted on 11/11/2023 5:31:20 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Baldwin77

13 posted on 11/11/2023 5:34:16 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

In Flanders Fields
By John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.


14 posted on 11/11/2023 6:44:32 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim
CORRECTION: Previous puzzle Friday, November 10, 2023

FE'R TDDZ RX BXZL RFZWD F SNGD BXYD F WNZ'E DYDZ IDSDSTDI QVX LDER EFDG AC. - PXNZ IFYDIR

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

IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I MADE LOVE I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER WHO GETS TIED UP. - JOAN RIVERS

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

I really wasn't trying to confuse y'all.

15 posted on 11/11/2023 6:59:27 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I thought you were trying to avoid it because it was a bit risque.


16 posted on 11/11/2023 7:09:09 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

No, that was Thursday solution. Bleary eyed, I neglected to update the solution.


17 posted on 11/11/2023 7:16:56 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Magnum44

Your omission of Viet Nam is noted.


18 posted on 11/11/2023 1:25:14 PM PST by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: doorgunner69

The ones I posted were my tenure. No disrespect to any before or after.


19 posted on 11/11/2023 4:53:31 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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