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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 07/22/2025 3:51:10 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy

D'H XDTLW BS YLFTDIJ FEBNX HBILZ, HBILZ, HBILZ, HBILZ, HBILZ. D RNCX GFIX XB QPFZ XYL JFHL, WTDIU QLQCD, GLFT TLLEBU. — CYFONDPPL B'ILFP


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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 07/22/2025 3:51:10 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; AUsome Joy; babyfreep; ...

Enjoy today’s cryptogram


2 posted on 07/22/2025 3:51:41 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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3 posted on 07/22/2025 3:52:30 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 07/22/2025 3:57:47 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

And those aren’t bad priorities.


5 posted on 07/22/2025 4:13:15 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
Previous puzzle Monday, July 21 , 2025

ZLO JLV’K SPGLRP GLLNPE CFKU TXP, SOK ZLO JL GTEP YELXEPHHFIPNZ NPHH TSLOK SPFVX GLLN, CUFGU FH KUP LVNZ KEOP CTZ KL TGKOTNNZ SP GLLN. GTNN FK KUP XPPDPEH YTETJLB. — TOKULE OVAVLCV

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

YOU DON’T BECOME COOLER WITH AGE, BUT YOU DO CARE PROGRESSIVELY LESS ABOUT BEING COOL, WHICH IS THE ONLY TRUE WAY TO ACTUALLY BE COOL. CALL IT THE GEEZERS PARADOX. — AUTHOR UNKNOWN
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

6 posted on 07/22/2025 4:22:09 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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Irony can be intentional or not.


7 posted on 07/22/2025 4:26:10 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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Oh, poor baby. He's so weary !
8 posted on 07/22/2025 4:34:04 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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9 posted on 07/22/2025 5:10:11 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 07/22/2025 5:19:35 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Oh, there's a crazy little shack beyond the tracks,
And everybody calls it The Sugar Shack.

11 posted on 07/22/2025 6:11:46 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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12 posted on 07/22/2025 7:48:31 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Thanks.


13 posted on 07/22/2025 8:27:07 AM PDT by manna
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To: MustKnowHistory
”And those aren’t bad priorities.”

Except when one is getting paid to say them. 🫤

14 posted on 07/23/2025 4:05:24 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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