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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 01/11/2024 2:32:22 AM PST by nikos1121

HSYKVMYD ML S LFVMFL AP LGSYYFVFB MNNKLMAQL. —NFUSV CKVYAQ



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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 01/11/2024 2:32:22 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

2 posted on 01/11/2024 2:39:03 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

I’m getting nowhere on this one.


3 posted on 01/11/2024 2:50:47 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: A_perfect_lady

That’s what we want. A good old fashioned one, that stumps you for most of the morning.


4 posted on 01/11/2024 2:51:53 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: A_perfect_lady

Im sure someone will leave a clue that makes it obvious.

I can see where this stumps you. A lot of false paths that take you the wrong way.


5 posted on 01/11/2024 2:54:07 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Wow this is the first short one I actually figured out fairly quickly. Really takes you back to your roots.


6 posted on 01/11/2024 2:56:23 AM PST by Free Deplorable
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To: nikos1121
We had a double header Tuesday, none on Wednesday, with two different puzzles to be solved separately. Previous puzzles Tuesday January 9, 2024

Puzzle Number 1 :

VTUO TM XWO PCYYOVX JSVOV TM UCVXSROA CGOAXCXE SFO SUTAY CAXODDOJXKSDV IWT WSNO XFTKPDO FOUOUPOFCAY XWSX XWOE SFO ATX YTG. — XWTUSV VTIODD
Solution to previous Puzzle Number 1: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

SOME OF THE BIGGEST CASES OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY ARE AMONG INTELLECTUALS WHO HAVE TROUBLE REMEMBERING THAT THEY ARE NOT GOD. — THOMAS SOWELL

Puzzle Number 2 :

XF DNIINRZ BG XF M XFZNRRFP FTFPK CNRZIF VGPRNRZ. —VFNCBFP FWHQMPB
Solution to previous Puzzle Number 2: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

BE WILLING TO BE A BEGINNER EVERY SINGLE MORNING. —MEISTER ECKHART

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

7 posted on 01/11/2024 3:10:29 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Hint: It really takes you back to your ROOTS. H/T to Free Deplorable.


8 posted on 01/11/2024 3:18:58 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: nikos1121

Got it! Don’t think everything you see is real.


9 posted on 01/11/2024 3:24:30 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Free Deplorable

Words 2 and 3 are what you think, letter frequency is some help.


10 posted on 01/11/2024 3:38:30 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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11 posted on 01/11/2024 3:46:44 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: nikos1121
More DEEP THOUGHTS from some unknown deep thinker


12 posted on 01/11/2024 5:03:20 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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To: Baldwin77

Didn’t recognize the author at first. Now I do. Does he think he is some philosopher or something? You could substitute the word “life” for the first word.


13 posted on 01/11/2024 5:13:29 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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14 posted on 01/11/2024 5:26:44 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: nikos1121

There was an old joke:
Clinton Bond - No principle.
Bush Bond - no interest
Perot Bond - no ?


15 posted on 01/11/2024 6:59:01 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: nikos1121

Thanks.


16 posted on 06/25/2024 8:49:02 PM PDT by manna
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