Today’s Cryptogram

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

R NOIROPO RY CRYV. R NOIROPO KJQK IQDEJRYE RT KJO NOTK ZQIBWRO NDWYOW. R NOIROPO RY VRTTRYE, VRTTRYE Q IBK. R NOIROPO RY NORYE TKWBYE HJOY OPOWFKJRYE TOOST KB NO EBRYE HWBYE. R NOIROPO KJQK JQCCF ERWIT QWO KJO CWOKKROTK ERWIT. R NOIROPO KJQK KBSBWWBH RT QYBKJOW UQF QYU R NOIROPO RY SRWQZIOT. — QDUWOF JOCNDWY

[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 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.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Enjoy today’s Cryptogram

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[ComputerGuy]

Good one.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Sunday, July 27, 2025

TK EVWEHV XUP WFPXTOV UQO HWWMVO UP PJV XPUSX VULJ QTRJP, T’HH NVP PJVZ’O HTAV U HWP OTKKVSVQPHZ. —NTHH GUPPVSXWQ

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

IF PEOPLE SAT OUTSIDE AND LOOKED AT THE STARS EACH NIGHT, I’LL BET THEY’D LIVE A LOT DIFFERENTLY. —BILL MATTERSON

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[BigOrangeI]

I think the author is Bill Watterson, not Bill Matterson.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I got the author wrong in the solution, and realized it a second after I posted it. Drat!

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

See #5

[Baldwin77]

[Magnum44]

[gitmo]

[Magnum44]

[manna]

Thanks.

[BlueLancer]

[buffyt]

Holly Go Lightly! That was a long one but I did it so fast. It was an easy one. Loved her.

[doorgunner69]

Where are they?

I wan to visit.

[buffyt]

Thanks! Yesterday it was quick and easy. Today took five or ten minutes. We used to get a cryptogram in our local paper in Sapulpa Ok and my mom and I raced to get the paper first to get to solve the puzzle. I wonder if she still does that. She moved, I don’t know if she gets the paper or if they put the puzzle pages in it. So much fun.