Today’s Cryptogram

[nikos1121]

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 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.

[nikos1121]

Today’s Cryptogram Survey

1. How often do you do Today’s Cryptogram?
a. Now and then
b. Several times per month
c. I try to do it Daily

2. Are you on the Ping List?
a. Yes
b. No

3. In a few words, why do you like to do Today’s Cryptogram?

[ryderann]

1. c.
2. no
3. Gets my brain cranked up for the day.

[nikos1121]

Thank you for your reply. How long have you been doing TC?

Please let us know if we can make Today’s Cryptogram better. Let us know if you’d like to be on the ping list.

[SouthWall]

1. C
2. A
3. Addicted

[Library Lady]

1. b
2. yes
3. I like puzzles.

Thank you for posting them.

[Peter ODonnell]

LZZ IV KA KQV BSCJ TSEK BTVPEV

[BlueLancer]

Shouldn't the fourth letter in the first word be something else?

1. c
2. a
3. Cranks the brain over in the early morning
4. Started about three (?) years ago

[Peter ODonnell]

I agRee.

[nikos1121]

I’ve checked the solution and it’s correct.

[grey_whiskers]

Answers:
Today’s Cryptogram Survey

1. How often do you do Today’s Cryptogram?
c. I try to do it Daily

2. Are you on the Ping List?
a. Yes

3. In a few words, why do you like to do Today’s Cryptogram?
It’s FUN!
And I like to see Magnum44’s clues.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[gundog]

1). B, with occasional binges

2) yes

3) For fun, mostly, but sometimes to assess my state of mind

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Daily.
Yes.

[MustKnowHistory]

1. Daily

2. Yes

3. It is fun.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzles Friday, October 24, 2025

T NDE NYVMTIR TI SGL XDJ XDSL YIL ITRGS

NGLI ZO LOLE JLGLXH DI LLVTL ETRGS

QYV ZO ZYIESLV QVYZ GTE EXDJ JLRDI SY VTEL

DIH EWHHLIXO SY ZO EWVKVTEL

(GL HTH SGL ZDEG) GL HTH SGL ZYIESLV ZDEG

(SGL ZYIESLV ZDEG) TS NDE D RVDPLODVH EZDEG

(GL HTH SGL ZDEG) TS BDWRGS YI TI D QXDEG

(GL HTH SGL ZDEG) GL HTH SGL ZYIESLV ZDEG

-JYJJO KTBMLSS, 1962

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

I WAS WORKING IN THE LAB LATE ONE NIGHT
WHEN MY EYES BEHELD AN EERIE SIGHT
FOR MY MONSTER FROM HIS SLAB BEGAN TO RISE
AND SUDDENLY TO MY SURPRISE

(HE DID THE MASH) HE DID THE MONSTER MASH
(THE MONSTER MASH) IT WAS A GRAVEYARD SMASH
(HE DID THE MASH) IT CAUGHT ON IN A FLASH
(HE DID THE MASH) HE DID THE MONSTER MASH

-BOBBY PICKETT, 1962

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[gundog]

No way....

[scrabblehack]

There’s a covfefe in the first word.

The author is not Terence.

[enumerated]

I doubt it

[LilFarmer]

1. I try to do it every day
2. Yes
3. It goes well with my morning coffee

I also see an error in the first word.