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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 09/23/2025 2:41:34 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy

RAFAK OAG Y LHSEPGAK DRHX WHP'KA TR Y ZPKKW. — YPGZHK PRDRHXR


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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 09/23/2025 2:41:34 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; AUsome Joy; babyfreep; ...

Enjoy today’s Cryptogram


2 posted on 09/23/2025 2:42:38 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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3 posted on 09/23/2025 2:43:21 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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4 posted on 09/23/2025 3:02:24 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
Previous puzzle Monday, September 22, 2025

QM NUS ALW’Y VOFFG, YRFW CFY SG LWH HU VUJFYRQWC QWVYFLH UM ONQWC YRFDF TUDDNQWC. QY’V YRF TUDDN YRLY CFYV NUS, WUY YRF OLAP UM VOFFG. — HLOF ALDWFCQF

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

IF YOU CAN’T SLEEP, THEN GET UP AND DO SOMETHING INSTEAD OF LYING THERE WORRYING. IT’S THE WORRY THAT GETS YOU, NOT THE LACK OF SLEEP. — DALE CARNEGIE
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

5 posted on 09/23/2025 3:12:33 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
I used to say that all the time back in my mainframe timeshare days.

-PJ

6 posted on 09/23/2025 3:14:05 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Scott Adams could have fun with this one.


7 posted on 09/23/2025 3:19:03 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
Only one of the many books written by this author ...


8 posted on 09/23/2025 3:33:17 AM PDT by BlueLancer ("It's very dangerous to believe people. I haven't for years." Miss Marple - Sleeping Murder)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
”Scott Adams could have fun with this one.”

Scott Adam’s having fun …….


9 posted on 09/23/2025 3:40:34 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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Our team got a message sent on a company iPhone from our otherwise competent girl boss that displayed as astrological symbols and other hieroglyphs. A stream of “What’s that?” soon followed, I posted that obviously it meant that Mars was in Quadrature with Jupiter, and that signaled an auspicious day for a meeting.


10 posted on 09/23/2025 3:51:47 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

My new password: ♈︎♉︎♋︎♌︎♍︎


11 posted on 09/23/2025 3:57:04 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Mine is ꪻ ෞ ೆ ੈ ೀ°°•ೃೈ ◌.ི ᩫ ᭄ ꦸ ꦿ ꦃ ཷ. ᬽ ᭃ᪼ ཹ. ᩭ ೃೃ


12 posted on 09/23/2025 4:10:53 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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13 posted on 09/23/2025 4:24:34 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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My code always remained fashionably aloof.
Any impatience on the part of the user was quietly ignored.


14 posted on 09/23/2025 4:55:18 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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15 posted on 09/23/2025 5:14:36 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Thanks.


16 posted on 09/23/2025 6:04:58 AM PDT by manna
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Too good and real.


17 posted on 09/23/2025 11:17:50 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Baldwin77

I remember that distinctly.


18 posted on 09/23/2025 12:04:28 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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19 posted on 09/23/2025 12:05:33 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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