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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 09/23/2020 12:51:44 AM PDT by nikos1121

CRW ATVSW WA FZ X VMALRATO WLZXW, MRBZ EXIRXL; JZIZL OKLZXU RW XFATW, MRBZ GXLGXMXUZ. —JAZM EACXLU


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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.

Solution to our last puzzle. Simply scroll your cursor over the text while left clicking your mouse, and the words should appear.

GRANDCHILDREN DON’T MAKE A MAN FEEL OLD; IT’S THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HE’S MARRIED TO A GRANDMOTHER. G. NORMAN COLLIE

1 posted on 09/23/2020 12:51:44 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: alicewonders; A_perfect_lady; AloneInMass; Aria; babyfreep; BlueLancer; buffyt; Califreak; ...

From The Arkansas Gazette, it seems familiar to me.

3 minutes good
2 minutes excellent
90 seconds superior


2 posted on 09/23/2020 12:53:54 AM PDT by nikos1121
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Word ten plus author.


3 posted on 09/23/2020 2:35:46 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

Yep.


4 posted on 09/23/2020 3:12:16 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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To: nikos1121

Guessed the right letters to begin and it opened up and this one only took about a minute.


5 posted on 09/23/2020 4:14:56 AM PDT by penguinhunter
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To: nikos1121

From Auntie Mame:

“It looks like blackberry jam.”
Auntie Mame says, “It’s more like fishberry jam.”


6 posted on 09/23/2020 4:41:41 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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A bit difficult to get started. Common letter helped…
7 posted on 09/23/2020 4:47:08 AM PDT by cartan
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That’s a good one! JZIZL was my way in.


8 posted on 09/23/2020 4:55:46 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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9 posted on 09/23/2020 5:13:25 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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That’s the best you can do? :-)


10 posted on 09/23/2020 6:06:08 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise. :)


11 posted on 09/23/2020 6:48:33 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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haha. You’re the best. You realize that it would NOT be the same without you.


12 posted on 09/23/2020 6:53:15 AM PDT by nikos1121
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What a cowardly thing to say, ehh?


13 posted on 09/23/2020 6:54:14 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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Thanks, your puzzles are a great way to way up in the morning, even if I'm not up until a few hours after you post. Let us hope you, and I, and FR have many years of wit ahead of us.


14 posted on 09/23/2020 7:18:31 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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Never come for a battle of -

being half prepared.


15 posted on 09/23/2020 7:58:01 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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2 minutes today.


16 posted on 09/23/2020 3:39:48 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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Looked more difficult than it was.


17 posted on 09/23/2020 4:18:06 PM PDT by Stars&StripesNE
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A little over 2 minutes.


18 posted on 09/23/2020 6:16:30 PM PDT by kalee
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