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Today's Cryptogram

Posted on 07/17/2025 2:48:08 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

L TLOZ IZBI UX TGLILAP TBO BO UXOIJGLHSO BO B FBI. - JYPBG BEEBA RHJ



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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 07/17/2025 2:48:08 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.

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2 posted on 07/17/2025 2:48:54 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Previous puzzle Wednesday, July 16 , 2025

ZIY FDD, AINDC WOD KPED VPODF, KPED VKWNDF. FIND AINDC WOD KPED HWCTKDF, XOPRBJ WCT VOPDCTKZ. FIND WOD KPED FPCRKD FGWOEF, IO DNXDOF, KPED VPODVKPDF VIO HBWFPCR IC FYNNDO CPRBJF. - GWJOPHE OIJBVYFF

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

You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. - Patrick Rothfuss
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3 posted on 07/17/2025 2:49:42 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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4 posted on 07/17/2025 2:50:38 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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5 posted on 07/17/2025 2:57:10 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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6 posted on 07/17/2025 3:42:49 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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7 posted on 07/17/2025 3:42:49 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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Ooops!


8 posted on 07/17/2025 3:43:52 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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NEVERMORE.


9 posted on 07/17/2025 4:05:08 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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10 posted on 07/17/2025 5:11:10 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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11 posted on 07/17/2025 5:13:42 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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12 posted on 07/17/2025 5:18:58 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I thought this one was going to be really difficult, but it fell in place quite nicely.


13 posted on 07/17/2025 6:50:54 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Thanks.


14 posted on 07/17/2025 7:18:56 AM PDT by manna
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

looks like my little girl Bibi


15 posted on 07/17/2025 11:19:57 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Nevermore...


16 posted on 07/17/2025 12:59:34 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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