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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 05/07/2024 11:03:55 PM PDT by nikos1121

RD QDBS LF RD MLUS TDIPFSGH RD RQS HIRIPS — EWX RQER ADZZLRZSWR RD RQS HIRIPS LF KQER ZEOSF RQS BPSFSWR LWQENLRENGS. —PSNSAAE FDGWLR


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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 05/07/2024 11:03:55 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

From The Arkansas Gazette

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes superior
Bonus Points if you can tell us what the heck the quotation means


2 posted on 05/07/2024 11:05:43 PM PDT by nikos1121
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Don’t stop thinkin’ ‘bout tomorrow!


3 posted on 05/08/2024 12:54:48 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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It’s a little early in the day to be having such deep thoughts.


4 posted on 05/08/2024 2:16:39 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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5 posted on 05/08/2024 2:21:08 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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6 posted on 05/08/2024 3:00:10 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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7 posted on 05/08/2024 3:14:10 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (DJ & JD 2024 (Trump-Vance) NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: nikos1121
Previous puzzle, Tuesday May 8, 2024

JCIYMJQ TBJ IBVL IYL ZIMJQ CKK IYL ECFGR'Z LTCJCSMT OFCXGLSZ GMVL EBITYMJQ SMGGMCJBMFLZ OFLZLJI LBTY CIYLF QCGRLJ ZIBIALZ. ― XMGGN TFNZIBG
Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

NOTHING CAN TAKE THE STING OFF THE WORLD'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS LIKE WATCHING MILLIONAIRES PRESENT EACH OTHER GOLDEN STATUES. ― BILLY CRYSTAL

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

8 posted on 05/08/2024 3:24:53 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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QDBS is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

EMILY DICKINSON


9 posted on 05/08/2024 3:31:00 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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The author, unknown to me before today, is apparently a big feminist, amongst other liberal traits….


10 posted on 05/08/2024 4:58:10 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Yeah, I never heard of her.


11 posted on 05/08/2024 3:01:27 PM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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