Posted on 08/08/2023 2:11:22 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy
RN SVC'I MNN IFQCYM UM IFNA UKN, RN MNN IFQCYM UM RN UKN. — UCUQM CQC
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.
Enjoy today’s Cryptogram and have a TERRIFIC TUESDAY.
WHAT HE SEES, WHAT WE SEE!

-PJ
YIM NDFL YIZDQ SNEBM YIUD U KUD LNC PUD'Y PNDYENF ZB U KUD LNC PUD. — KUEQN AUCGKUD
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN A MAN YOU CAN'T CONTROL IS A MAN YOU CAN. — MARGO KAUFMAN
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

I’ve been to the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge. The mirror, easel, helmet, chairs, and canvas are in place exactly like that.
What is that?
Got it
MNN
WOW, that was the first time I was able to practically read it as is, and figure out the name of the author before I even plugged in the first letter. I’m getting better at this!
I've heard all of the voices of God's noblest creature: moans from bundles of filth in the streets.
I've been a soldier and a slave.
I've seen my comrades fall in battle or die more slowly under the lash in Africa.
I've held them in their last moments; these were men who saw "life, as it is".
But they died despairing. No glory. No bray of last words. Only their eyes filled with confusion, questioning "Why?"
I do not think they were asking why they were dying, but why they had ever been born.
Life itself seems lunatic. Who knows where madness lies?
Perhaps to be too practical is madness.
To surrender dreams, this may be madness;
To seek treasure where there is only trash.
Too much sanity may be madness.
But maddest of all, to see "life, as it is" and not as it should be!
(Courtesy of "Man of La Mancha")


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