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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 07/12/2025 3:40:23 AM PDT by nikos1121

GC KPC NYPI YV BYLC; BYLC MD YXP AYRZCP. —PXAM


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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

1 posted on 07/12/2025 3:40:23 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Who?


2 posted on 07/12/2025 3:50:50 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; AUsome Joy; babyfreep; ...

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.
From The Arkansas Gazette

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior


3 posted on 07/12/2025 3:51:00 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: ComputerGuy

You’re faster than Superman


4 posted on 07/12/2025 3:51:45 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Not a good choice today. Author is obscure and the last word is vague and not at all intuitive.


5 posted on 07/12/2025 4:13:07 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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To: nikos1121

Are you sure the clue is correct?


6 posted on 07/12/2025 4:20:34 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: nikos1121
Previous puzzle Friday, July 11, 2025

Z RZBB LZIP WK PFNE APDGKY FNNKDCZYL WK REFW WEPU EFIP CKYP.Z FV WEP FBAEF FYC WEP KVPLF, WEP HZDGW FYC WEP BFGW, WEP JPLZYYZYL FYC WEP PYC. - DPI 22, YZI

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

I WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE FIRST AND THE LAST, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. - REV 22, NIV
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

7 posted on 07/12/2025 4:54:50 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: nikos1121


8 posted on 07/12/2025 5:10:29 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: ComputerGuy
Spoiler
9 posted on 07/12/2025 5:16:47 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Thanks for the clue. I actually had it solved but thought it must be wrong, kind of made sense but wasn’t sure.


10 posted on 07/12/2025 6:05:49 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: Baldwin77

Not my puzzle. It was tough. Short ones are.


11 posted on 07/12/2025 6:07:22 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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12 posted on 07/12/2025 6:32:14 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

But you put the spoiler out there. I thank you for that. Yes, the short ones always present a bigger challenge, today’s especially !


13 posted on 07/12/2025 6:44:24 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

14 posted on 07/12/2025 7:10:24 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: nikos1121

The quote came together ok. Makes sense. I’ve never heard of the author, though.


15 posted on 07/12/2025 8:36:25 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: nikos1121

Thanks.


16 posted on 07/12/2025 9:47:03 AM PDT by manna
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