Posted on 08/12/2025 1:13:52 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy
UEXMX OMX IOPZ UH QMHUXVU UEX KMXXTHY HK UEX QMXZZ'Z ZQXXVE, SJU GHGX UEOU OMX PHMUE OGLUEBGN UH QMHUXVU UEX QXHQIX KMHY UEX QMXZZ. — YOMF UPOBG
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.
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
Happiness is starting the morning early with Today’s Cryptogram and a prayer (in reverse order)! Thank you, Apple!
Trump has taught republicans how to deal with democrats, who he calls stupid politicians, but have they learned anything?
McConnell, Paul Ryan and the rest that he’s neutered are a reminder that it’s almost like his first term was for survival. We were cheated.
The second term is like watching your favorite sport’s team ie his Dream Team, playing.
He’s picked each cabinet member, foremost for their ability to communicate with the media. They’re fun to watch. Especially, because we’re winning!
Kathy Hochel says “this is war”, and Beto O Rourke says “F” the rules. Once again, Trump makes them all look like children.
I did this under 90 seconds.
My 15 gms of Creatine is working.
K RKDD YE OV JE JUP HKZ GKAYPTPS WBA BAS HBL, “UPDDE. WL ABWP KH KAKYE WEAJELB, LEO IKDDPS WL GBJUPT. VTPVBTP JE SKP.” — WEAJELBSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
I WILL GO UP TO THE SIX FINGERED MAN AND SAY, “HELLO. MY NAME IS INIGO MONTOYA, YOU KILLED MY FATHER. PREPARE TO DIE.” — MONTOYA
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
I got Chernow’s biography for Fathers Day, and am just now getting around to reading it. Today’s author intensely disliked school, but got his start as an apprentice printer, one of the few jobs available that did not entail backbreaking manual labor. He later worked in his older brother’s print shop. One of his brother’s products was a local newspaper. When unrelated business took his brother out of town, he ran the shop including the paper. Like Benjamin Franklin, he inserted letters he wrote himself under pseudonyms, initially unbeknowst to his stuffy brother, under a pen name.
He graduated to inserting editorials and other prose. When his brother, an avid Iowa Republican, was appointed by Lincoln to be the Secretary of the Neveda Territory (one step below governor) our author followed as his assistant. When Neveda became a state in 1864 (to solidify the Republican hold on the Senate) his brother was out a job, and so was he. He bummed his way to San Francisco, and found work as a reporter, a job he disliked, but it gave him his start.
He tried at one point to purchase a share in Hartford Courant, but the owners snubbed him, and he had a lifelong beef with that newspaper.
“If you don’t read the newspapers, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed.” - YOMF UPOBG
Thanks!
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