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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 01/17/2024 11:30:04 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

2 posted on 01/17/2024 11:32:16 PM PST by nikos1121
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Figure out the author, and the quote almost solves itself.


3 posted on 01/17/2024 11:41:04 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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Did not invent peanut butter, though. Just to be picky.


8 posted on 01/18/2024 1:30:50 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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9 posted on 01/18/2024 2:29:33 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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Previous puzzles Wednesday January 17, 2024

YFC LYOU HXODA DMOUDMAU DO MYU SYC OFCPDPXI HFU SYC SXLDIK. —JXFI JBXCOXII
Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

OUR MOST BASIC INSTINCT IS NOT FOR SURVIVAL BUT FOR FAMILY. —PAUL PEARSALL

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

10 posted on 01/18/2024 3:12:56 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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Wow one that I could not fill in the letters fast enough. This was the easiest by far I have ever done.


11 posted on 01/18/2024 3:13:04 AM PST by Free Deplorable
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LRUELR

When there’s a pattern like that in the attribution at the end...it’s all so easy.
Most puzzles, I start with the name, or quote source. There’s not many names in the world of quotes :)
But a LRUELR is always easy to spot.


14 posted on 01/18/2024 4:12:26 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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+.
16 posted on 01/18/2024 4:20:33 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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17 posted on 01/18/2024 5:38:40 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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18 posted on 01/18/2024 5:42:37 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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