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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 09/17/2025 2:57:25 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; AUsome Joy; babyfreep; ...
Previous puzzle Tuesday, September 16, 2025

DYIUYCA YG BYFR E GKYSRQ'G TRO, EUUEIZRS RLRQ GC GBYWZUBH KRQZEKG, OJU GUYBB EUUEIZRS UC BYDR EU EBB DCJQ ICQARQG. CDURA UZR EUUEIZXRAU YG GIEQIRBH KRQIRKUYOBR. — LYQWYAYE TCCBD

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

FICTION IS LIKE A SPIDER'S WEB, ATTACHED EVER SO SLIGHTLY PERHAPS, BUT STILL ATTACHED TO LIFE AT ALL FOUR CORNERS. OFTEN THE ATTACHMENT IS SCARCELY PERCEPTIBLE. — VIRGINIA WOOLF
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

2 posted on 09/17/2025 2:58:29 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Surely the day before the solstice is warmer than the day before the equinox. But the solstice is not the hottest day of the year.


3 posted on 09/17/2025 3:10:54 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

5 posted on 09/17/2025 3:37:30 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

6 posted on 09/17/2025 4:00:11 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

7 posted on 09/17/2025 6:43:28 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Thanks.


9 posted on 09/17/2025 1:33:28 PM PDT by manna
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