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Today’s Cryptogram

Posted on 10/14/2025 3:26:12 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy

JR'Z STXC DYNBWZY SP RFYJA ZRWMJOJRC RFBR RFYC'AY BDXY RS DY ZS ZWAY SP RFYEZYXHYZ. — PABTI LBPLB


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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 10/14/2025 3:26:12 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 10/14/2025 3:26:41 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

3 posted on 10/14/2025 3:27:10 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
Previous puzzle Monday, October 13, 2025

IMB ZEBJCSBDI’J OKWCDL HDS UB’EB MHXCDL H LKKS ICYB. QKG VHD DBLKICHIB CD LKKS PHCIM UMCRB HRJK ZKWCDL H RCIIRB TCI KP PGD HI JKYB KP IMB HTJGESCICBJ KP IMB SBYKVEHIJ’ ZKJCICKDJ HDS BXBD, QKG WDKU, ZKWCDL JKYB, JKYB PGD HI IMB HTJGESCIQ KP IMB SBYKVEHIJ IMBYJBRXBJ. — OS XHDVB

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

THE PRESIDENT’S JOKING AND WE’RE HAVING A GOOD TIME. YOU CAN NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH WHILE ALSO POKING A LITTLE BIT OF FUN AT SOME OF THE ABSURDITIES OF THE DEMOCRATS’ POSITIONS AND EVEN, YOU KNOW, POKING SOME, SOME FUN AT THE ABSURDITY OF THE DEMOCRATS THEMSELVES. — JD VANCE
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

4 posted on 10/14/2025 3:45:49 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into an enormous insect.


5 posted on 10/14/2025 3:50:26 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

That was the first thing I thought of when connecting Kafka.


7 posted on 10/14/2025 3:53:36 AM PDT by unlearner (I'm tired of being not tired of winning.)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

A university dean once told me (and others): “I supervise 60 professors, and every one of them thinks that he or she is the smartest person in the world.”


8 posted on 10/14/2025 4:14:34 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
The contractions did it for me.

-PJ

9 posted on 10/14/2025 4:25:59 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: unlearner
You're not supposed to post the answer. You're supposed to post a clue to the answer so that everyone else knows that you solved it.

Try to use clues that don't include words that were in the puzzle, but evoke them.

-PJ

10 posted on 10/14/2025 4:27:22 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

Outstanding. Perfectly descriptive of the wokenistas.


11 posted on 10/14/2025 4:29:37 AM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I’m sorry. This is my first time.


12 posted on 10/14/2025 4:35:16 AM PDT by unlearner (I'm tired of being not tired of winning.)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

13 posted on 10/14/2025 4:40:50 AM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: unlearner

You are forgiven.
See my FReepmail to you. 🙂


14 posted on 10/14/2025 5:16:03 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: Baldwin77

OK you win the thread.

BTW, this puzzle was quite a trial.


16 posted on 10/14/2025 6:20:49 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

I dont know who took offense to my original post this morning, but the glow stick analogy was good even if it contained a 4 letter word.

17 posted on 10/14/2025 7:02:25 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Thanks.


18 posted on 10/14/2025 7:32:27 AM PDT by manna
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To: Baldwin77

Bullseye.


19 posted on 10/14/2025 7:44:53 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: unlearner
Welcome to the game!

-PJ

20 posted on 10/14/2025 11:47:42 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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