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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 08/23/2025 2:42:27 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121
Previous puzzle Friday, August 22, 2025

AZI RA IGMEAF R JORII EXGGM BGRAFGX

BXNO AFG GRXAF JFNA JINQIP LHQRXS,

AFGM RMNAFGX RMS RMNAFGX,

RMS DGBNXG AFG JLOOGX GMSGS

JANNS AFG ORZCG ZM RII ZAJ DGRLAP,

QZAF ZAJ JFZMZME XNDGJ RDNLA ZA,

RMS ZAJ INME, JNBA, PGIINQ AXGJJGJ

-- INMEBGIINQ, AFG JNME NB FZRQRAFR, FZRQRAFR'J BRJAZME

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

TIL AT LENGTH A SMALL GREEN FEATHER
FROM THE EARTH SHOT SLOWLY UPWARD,
THEN ANOTHER AND ANOTHER,
AND BEFORE THE SUMMER ENDED
STOOD THE MAIZE IN ALL ITS BEAUTY,
WITH ITS SHINING ROBES ABOUT IT,
AND ITS LONG, SOFT, YELLOW TRESSES

-- LONGFELLOW, THE SONG OF HIAWATHA, HIAWATHA'S FASTING

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

2 posted on 08/23/2025 2:43:31 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; AUsome Joy; babyfreep; ...

Good morning, everyone!

Try solving LINE BY LINE today!

Start the day off with a bang


3 posted on 08/23/2025 2:44:50 AM PDT by nikos1121
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I read it just fine.


6 posted on 08/23/2025 2:49:01 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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Poster child of today’s crypto


10 posted on 08/23/2025 3:53:10 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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11 posted on 08/23/2025 5:12:12 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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12 posted on 08/23/2025 5:40:27 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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15 posted on 08/23/2025 11:24:52 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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Thanks.


16 posted on 08/24/2025 4:25:13 PM PDT by manna
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