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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 01/06/2025 1:49:25 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy

ZY PBF NBL’K VZMQ KGQ DBJN PBF’DQ CJVMZLO, EKJDK XJTZLO JLBKGQD BLQ. — NBVVP XJDKBL


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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 cryptogr)am).

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 01/06/2025 1:49:25 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy
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To: absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; babyfreep; Baldwin77; BlueLancer; ...

Enjoy today’s Cryptogram


2 posted on 01/06/2025 1:50:14 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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3 posted on 01/06/2025 1:51:13 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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How’s about an island within a stream?


4 posted on 01/06/2025 2:58:58 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ....... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Ate, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

EZ today.


5 posted on 01/06/2025 3:10:27 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
Previous puzzle Sunday, The Twelveth Day of Christmas, January 5, 2025

DVXVK RDLVKVFCMWOCV CSV BIUVK IY FCRBML BVIBQV MD QOKTV TKIRBF. - TVIKTV NOKQMD
Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. — George Carlin
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

6 posted on 01/06/2025 3:18:28 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

I don’t mind dumb blonde jokes, ‘cause I know I ain’t dumb, and I know I ain’t blonde. - ibid


7 posted on 01/06/2025 3:21:38 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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EZ today.

Almost literally just typing.

8 posted on 01/06/2025 3:22:21 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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Good quote. I hadn’t heard it before.


9 posted on 01/06/2025 3:28:03 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Try telling that to Cool Hand Luke


10 posted on 01/06/2025 5:45:17 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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11 posted on 01/06/2025 8:18:46 AM PST by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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I met the author’s sister. The family resemblance is obvious.


12 posted on 01/06/2025 10:31:31 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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Thanks.


13 posted on 01/06/2025 12:17:21 PM PST by manna
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