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quagmire1.py dec dorothy rainbow XAAOCJRGTIDUOHSQFXFMOMRWEUBSMODTZRZDTNXTBKMOSQWLDJMWJJIWHX
ujfafntbwqmidfmnlfjwpfbwpiuufajwcgiawxfaujfainbowczwvpizof

quagmire1.py dec epspuiz rainbow XAAOCJRGTIDUOHSQFXFMOMRWEUBSMODTZRZDTNXTBKMOSQWLDJMWJJIWHX
thereisnoplacelikehomenomatterhowfarovertherainbowyoumaybe

quagmire3.py dec dorothy rainbow IPEONKPGFPTUSCXCKKWPKPDOUUWQPOHFRVZDFVKTWFPOACXMNKNORFJVHK
thereisnoplacelikehomenomatterhowfarovertherainbowyoumaybe

What text book are you using?

I conform to these:

https://www.cryptogram.org/downloads/aca.info/ciphers/QuagmireI.pdf
https://www.cryptogram.org/downloads/aca.info/ciphers/QuagmireII.pdf
https://www.cryptogram.org/downloads/aca.info/ciphers/QuagmireIII.pdf
https://www.cryptogram.org/downloads/aca.info/ciphers/QuagmireIV.pdf

What the ACA and I are doing differently from you is to put the shift key under A.
This should not affect the magic trick. What does affect it is that you should straighten
out the plaintext alphabet, so that the rows of the tableau are scrambled.

Using QUAG as the alphabet key and FOUR as the shift key, I get these rows of the Q1 tableau:
FHIJKLGMNOPQRSTUDVWXEYZABC
OQRSTUPVWXYZABCDMEFGNHIJKL
UWXYZAVBCDEFGHIJSKLMTNOPQR
RTUVWXSYZABCDEFGPHIJQKLMNO

Similarly, for Q3 you should straighten out the plaintext alphabet, so that the tableau lines
get scrambled even more, like these, for QUAG and FOUR:
IKLMNOJPRSTVWXYZFQUAHGBCDE
RTVWXYSZQUAGBCDEOFHIPJKLMN
GCDEFHBIJKLMNOPRUSTVAWXYZQ
TWXYZQVUAGBCDEFHRIJKSLMNOP

(It wouldn’t be much of a trick if I could just see that you have QUAGBCDEFHI… rotated on each line.)

Same for Q4, where I get these for FOUR and QUAG and MIRE:
HKLNOPJQSTUVWXYZFMIRGEABCD
QTUVWXSYZMIREABCODFGPHJKLN
WYZMIRXEABCDFGHJUKLNVOPQST
ACDFGHBJKLNOPQSTRUVWEXYZMI