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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 01/25/2024 1:30:27 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

From The Arkansas Gazette


2 posted on 01/25/2024 1:31:17 AM PST by nikos1121
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Sweet stuff


3 posted on 01/25/2024 1:53:04 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Clue: It’s about something you can’t ignore.


5 posted on 01/25/2024 2:35:50 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370)
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Got it


6 posted on 01/25/2024 2:47:59 AM PST 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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Previous puzzle Wednesday January 24, 2024

TO JWI’UL FTSLB FTOYM WU DALMMTBFM TB JWIU ATOL, TY’M IQ YW JWI YW GLAQ YGL FIJ PWZTBF IQ DLGTBC JWI. —ETZZJ MZTYM
Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

IF YOU’RE GIVEN GIFTS OR BLESSINGS IN YOUR LIFE, IT’S UP TO YOU TO HELP THE GUY COMING UP BEHIND YOU. —JIMMY SMITS

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

7 posted on 01/25/2024 3:13:26 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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8 posted on 01/25/2024 3:17:53 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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9 posted on 01/25/2024 3:20:35 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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Photo of the author


11 posted on 01/25/2024 4:43:31 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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You can’t hurry it either.


15 posted on 01/25/2024 7:22:47 AM PST by scrabblehack
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