Posted on 05/28/2025 3:23:52 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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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.
If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.
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ALL BLAME IS A WASTE OF TIME. NO MATTER HOW MUCH FAULT YOU FIND WITH ANOTHER, AND REGARDLESS OF HOW MUCH YOU BLAME HIM, IT WILL NOT CHANGE YOU. THE ONLY THING BLAME DOES IS TO KEEP THE FOCUS OFF YOU WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING FOR REASONS TO EXPLAIN YOUR UNHAPPINESS OR FRUSTRATION. — CASEY STENGEL
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
bees, lions (in the wild anyway)...
(or on the Discovery Channel).
Great cartoon!
You win!
Did you solve the puzzle?
“Did you solve the puzzle?”
No. Some day I’ll spend some time and check in to the whole cryptogram thing; have never been interested. I understand the basic concept, but I’m sure there are tip and tricks.
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
"The Young British Soldier" (Rudyard Kipling)
Thanks.
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