Today’s Cryptogram

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 cryptogr)am).

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 09/02/2025 1:01:27 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy

To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; AUsome Joy; babyfreep; ...

Enjoy today’s Cryptogram

2 posted on 09/02/2025 1:02:02 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

3 posted on 09/02/2025 1:02:53 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Easy enough to enjoy at least a little bit :)

4 posted on 09/02/2025 1:51:05 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

So he expects a treasure?

5 posted on 09/02/2025 2:05:27 AM PDT by scrabblehack

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Previous puzzle Monday, September 1, 2025

WM BCC KPX TBYF WS KPX RSWKXU FKBKXF LXYX ICBTXU XSU KD XSU, WK LDRCU IYDJBJCV JX CBJDY UBV LXXOXSU. — UDRA CBYFDS

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

IF ALL THE CARS IN THE UNITED STATES WERE PLACED END TO END, IT WOULD PROBABLY BE LABOR DAY WEEKEND. — DOUG LARSON

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

6 posted on 09/02/2025 3:13:10 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Today's author was buried on a Hillside in Samoa, his SPOILER epitaph is taken from a poem he wrote:

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie
Glad did I live and gladly die
And I laid me down with a will
This be the verse you grave for me
Here he lies where he longed to be
Home is the sailor home from the sea
And the hunter home from the hill

He did not so much invent the pirate yarn, by his time a played out genre in boy's literature, but revitalized it.

7 posted on 09/02/2025 3:28:52 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

8 posted on 09/02/2025 4:43:50 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)

To: scrabblehack

I had to ponder over your clue for a few minutes and then it suddenly hit me and was clear what you are pointing to. Love it.

9 posted on 09/02/2025 5:16:45 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )

To: Apple Pan Dowdy

10 posted on 09/02/2025 5:19:49 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

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