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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 02/08/2024 7:44:01 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; Avoiding_Sulla; babyfreep; ..

As an extra challenge today.

Print the cryptogram out and solve it with a pen or pencil.

5 minutes or less is good.
3 minutes excellent
Under 2 minutes and you get a cuban cigar


2 posted on 02/08/2024 7:47:09 AM PST by nikos1121
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The Osmonds
6 posted on 02/08/2024 7:52:16 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Didn’t we do this one a couple days ago?


10 posted on 02/08/2024 8:00:48 AM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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11 posted on 02/08/2024 8:02:42 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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ARE WE THERE YET ???
12 posted on 02/08/2024 8:18:55 AM PST by Baldwin77 (DJ & JD 2024 (Trump-Vance))
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Didn't we do this one just a few days ago ...?


14 posted on 02/08/2024 9:25:51 AM PST by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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15 posted on 02/08/2024 10:21:15 AM PST by gitmo
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That’s me since I retired.


16 posted on 02/08/2024 10:21:51 AM PST by gitmo
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