Today’s Cryptogram

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

OK MBFIQS HFE MUC EBUE FHK ZUH'M BFIX VM OFXEB UHFEBKX ZUH'M BFIX, DIE XUEBKX EBUE FHK ZUH SIXVHN UH BFIX VM OFXEB WIME UM ZITB UM UHFEBKX ZUH SIXVHN UH BFIX. EVZK VM KAKXCEBVHN, ZUH VM HFEBVHN: BK VM UE EBK ZFME EVZK'M TUXTUMM. — PUXQ ZUXG

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

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.

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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.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Enjoy today’s cryptogram

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[ComputerGuy]

Not if he’s a plumber.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Monday, February 12, 2024

TJOMT VFY KDY LJTK VLVXHUB VFKHOSY JA OSJKDHUB. KDYR DVKY KDYHF SHNYT. KDYR'FY HU KDY TDJYT EHKD TKHUMR AYYK, KDY CJFHUB ZFVEYFT. KDY ZFRYF HT KDYHF JUSR ODVUOY KJ YTOVGY VUZ KDYR VSS MUJE HK. — IYFFR TYHUAYSZ

Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

SOCKS ARE THE MOST AMAZING ARTICLE OF CLOTHING. THEY HATE THEIR LIVES. THEY'RE IN THE SHOES WITH STINKY FEET, THE BORING DRAWERS. THE DRYER IS THEIR ONLY CHANCE TO ESCAPE AND THEY ALL KNOW IT. — JERRY SEINFELD

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[Baldwin77]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

EVZK is the stuff of life. - Poor Richard’s Almanac

[SaveFerris]

Got it

Easier than some

[SouthWall]

Only in the author's perfect world is he right. Only if socialism and communism are perfect is he right. There can not be individualism in his world. There can be no differences between the good and the bad, the worker and the loafer, the artist and the inept.


“The world would not be in such a snarl, had ZUXG been Groucho instead of PUXQ”
Irving Berlin

Sorry for the rant, and the obvious clue spoiler. The quote just torqued my wire.

[Magnum44]

And warming up for philosophers soccer….

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I totally understand what you are saying. This quote, when I read it, made lightning bolts go off in my head. How could this man (the author) be so depraved and arrogant that he has no regard what-so-ever for his fellow man, yet believes only he is correct? That is like what Lucifer (Satan) thought when he left Heaven to try to rule with his own plan. He arrogantly thought that he was wiser and more capable than God….. God, the one who merely spoke and the universe, the, earth, everything was created!

So I chose this quote for today’s puzzle to evoke a strong response in everyone of us. Your response did not disappoint.

[BlueLancer]

[gitmo]