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Today's Cryptogram

Posted on 05/28/2025 3:23:52 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

QFT VDH QHELCH FQ VDH JMHIOHJ OJ EFTH XHLXCK VDLB VDH ELCH. - TGXKLTX WOMCOBN



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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 05/28/2025 3:23:52 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; AUsome Joy; 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 05/28/2025 3:24:38 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Previous puzzle Tuesday, May 27, 2025

WKK HKWRV PI W SWINV EU NPRV. AE RWNNVF ZES RJQZ UWJKN LEJ UPAB SPNZ WAENZVF, WAB FVYWFBKVII EU ZES RJQZ LEJ HKWRV ZPR, PN SPKK AEN QZWAYV LEJ. NZV EAKL NZPAY HKWRV BEVI PI NE CVVO NZV UEQJI EUU LEJ SZVA LEJ WFV KEECPAY UEF FVWIEAI NE VGOKWPA LEJF JAZWOOPAVII EF UFJINFWNPEA. — QWIVL INVAYVK
Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

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

3 posted on 05/28/2025 3:25:05 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

bees, lions (in the wild anyway)...


4 posted on 05/28/2025 3:33:41 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack
bees, lions (in the wild anyway)...

(or on the Discovery Channel).

5 posted on 05/28/2025 3:36:56 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

6 posted on 05/28/2025 3:39:42 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: Lonesome in Massachussets

7 posted on 05/28/2025 3:45:10 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: Baldwin77

Great cartoon!


8 posted on 05/28/2025 4:22:29 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

9 posted on 05/28/2025 4:31:06 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: grey_whiskers

You win!


10 posted on 05/28/2025 5:36:51 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

11 posted on 05/28/2025 5:38:13 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: MayflowerMadam

Did you solve the puzzle?


12 posted on 05/28/2025 6:16:37 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: Baldwin77

“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.


13 posted on 05/28/2025 6:30:35 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The first thing that I thought of ...


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)

14 posted on 05/28/2025 8:22:34 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Thanks.


15 posted on 05/28/2025 8:40:55 AM PDT by manna
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