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Today’s Cryptogram 

Posted on 08/02/2025 4:15:33 AM PDT by nikos1121

D SCDIL PFREMJA AR LVMO EDFF IRL HDM. —PJDHC GCVFR



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KEYWORDS: todayscryptogram

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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 08/02/2025 4:15:33 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; AUsome Joy; babyfreep; ...

From The Arkansas Gazette

4 minutes good
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2 posted on 08/02/2025 4:17:04 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Live forever.


3 posted on 08/02/2025 4:23:09 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: nikos1121

4 posted on 08/02/2025 4:35:25 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: nikos1121
Previous puzzle Friday, August 1, 2025

YKHMD MKX TKXD KLC CTMD MKX TKXD,

KLC FEXXFM FKYPD MKX EWZ.

K SEC'FF MKX EWZ XTT,

NTVFCL'X ZTV?

- YEFXTL CHKSM, KF QTAAYKL, GMHHZ FEWELUDXTL

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

MARES EAT OATS AND DOES EAT OATS, AND LITTLE LAMBS EAT IVY. A KID'LL EAT IVY TOO, WOULDN'T YOU? - MILTON DRAKE, AL HOFFMAN, JERRY LIVINGSTON
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

5 posted on 08/02/2025 4:48:25 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: nikos1121

Actually surprisingly easy


6 posted on 08/02/2025 4:53:06 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: nikos1121

7 posted on 08/02/2025 4:59:49 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: nikos1121

Thoughtful, of cultural value, interesting and moderately challenging due to short length. Not valueless gibberish. Well done!


8 posted on 08/02/2025 5:04:55 AM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: SharpenedEdge

Yes, that’s the best definition of what a Cryptogram should be! Like a good movie, that sticks with you.

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9 posted on 08/02/2025 5:22:43 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Oh boy....


10 posted on 08/02/2025 5:23:25 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: SharpenedEdge; nikos1121

Agree - nikos1121 is the best at this - no stupid jokeyness to scroll past, too. And doesn’t spoil it by posting a picture hint him/herself. Long live nikos1121!


11 posted on 08/02/2025 5:47:47 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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To: nikos1121
Maybe the problem could be avoided if we just had better instructions?


12 posted on 08/02/2025 6:12:32 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: nikos1121

“The Last Leaf,” by O. Henry.


13 posted on 08/02/2025 8:53:35 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: nikos1121

I failed on decrypting this one. :-(


14 posted on 08/02/2025 9:06:31 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: nikos1121

Thanks.


15 posted on 08/02/2025 1:34:53 PM PDT by manna
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