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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 03/18/2025 1:19:27 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy

MZX LVTDSDNMALMDRS'N YQLS MR ICAU MZX EARFDSE SCTUXA RJ UDAV JQC RCMUAXLBN ZLWX VXIDTLMXV JQRIBN SLMDRSFDVX, QXLVDSE MR L NDESDJDILSM NZRAMLEX DS MZX C.N. XEE NCYYQO. — LEADICQMCAX NXIAXMLAO, UARRBX ARQQDSN


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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 03/18/2025 1:19:27 AM PDT 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 03/18/2025 1:20:08 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
Looks like we're gonna have to paint potatoes this Easter y'all.

3 posted on 03/18/2025 1:20:58 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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4 posted on 03/18/2025 3:13:48 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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5 posted on 03/18/2025 3:15:28 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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6 posted on 03/18/2025 3:18:44 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
Previous puzzle Monday, St Patrick's Day, March 17, 2025

WCJ GBY IDCF IHOY GD WYYG JDV,
WCJ GBY EHXF MY CZECJO CG JDVI MCQU.
WCJ GBY OVX OBHXY ECIW VKDX JDVI PCQY,
GBY ICHXO PCZZ ODPG VKDX JDVI PHYZFO.
CXF VXGHZ EY WYYG CTCHX,
WCJ TDF BDZF JDV HX GBY KCZW DP BHO BCXF

. — GICFHGHDXCZ MZYOOHXT

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

MAY THE ROAD RISE TO MEET YOU,
MAY THE WIND BE ALWAYS AT YOUR BACK.
MAY THE SUN SHINE WARM UPON YOUR FACE,
THE RAINS FALL SOFT UPON YOUR FIELDS.
AND UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN,
MAY GOD HOLD YOU IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND.

— TRADITIONAL BLESSING

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

7 posted on 03/18/2025 4:21:45 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Turkeys, for example, cannot fly


8 posted on 03/18/2025 4:40:16 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Shouldn’t this statement refer to the prior one?
Because I would hope the current one is doing the opposite.


9 posted on 03/18/2025 5:02:53 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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A second word (UDVXS) must have been omitted to protect the guilty


10 posted on 03/18/2025 5:29:59 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

Thanks.


11 posted on 03/18/2025 5:46:14 AM PDT by manna
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Yiu win the thread.


12 posted on 03/18/2025 6:21:49 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

That’s the same way they approached the COVID plandemic.


13 posted on 03/18/2025 7:25:41 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Absocottonpickinlutely.


14 posted on 03/18/2025 7:31:16 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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15 posted on 03/18/2025 12:25:46 PM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: Baldwin77

I wonder where this was!


16 posted on 03/18/2025 12:27:02 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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