Posted on 11/08/2025 4:03:19 AM PST by nikos1121
UBSRZPK FTXOBOPO BX PGR JZRRNTV PT NT RCRZKPGBXM DGBFG BXAEZRO XT TXR RUOR; GRXFR PGR RYRZFBOR TJ PGR XIPEZIU ZBMGPO TJ RIFG VIX GIO XT UBVBPO RYFRQP PGTOR DGBFG IOOEZR PT PGR TPGRZ VRVSRZO TJ PGR OTFBRPK PGR RXATKVRXP TJ PGR OIVR ZBMGPO.--UIJIKRPPPR
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Ready for a mental workout? A Cryptogram is a classic quotation puzzle frequently featured in daily publications. I source the best and most challenging ones to help keep our minds sharp and boost cognitive health!
In a Cryptogram, a single letter always stands for another letter.
(Example: AXYDLBAAXR might translate to LONGFELLOW. This is just an example and does not apply to today’s puzzle.)
If this is your first time, don’t be intimidated—the game is very addictive, and you will quickly master the technique! If you find yourself stumped, simply take a break and return to it later.
Please follow these guidelines for the best experience for everyone:
Feel free to post a fun or clever clue—the more tangential to the quotation the better! Just remember that your clue **must not contain the actual words** of the solved quote.
Good luck, and enjoy the challenge!
Anything under 3 minutes today is excellent.
You can’t cry, “ fire !” In a crowded theater if there is no fire.
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Typo alert!
Oops! You’re right.
This is two weekends in a row that I’ve posted a Cryptgram with a mistake to it, although this one isn’t as bad as the other where I misspelled the word THERE.
I need to be flogged, tarred and feathered, hung and quartered, and put in a cage twenty feet off the ground until I’m barely alive, and then shot by firing squad.
I am going to stay in my little room the rest of the day with the lights off, until I can post a clean error free puzzle tomorrow.
PS-I will say this. Only top Cryptogram solovers pick up errors in the crytogram themselves. So, you get the brass monkey award today.
I got it in less than a minute, but the misspelling in the author’s name was confusing!
PPP?
I’ve solved it and the PPP should be PP.
I will immodestly say the cryptograms are far too easy. Some of us are grateful for the challenge of a typo. :)
Well, a few weeks ago, I tried a Crypto which had a Latin hymn as its answer. There was no need to translate the Latin because I gave plenty of hints to the well-known hymn itself.
But would you like to review the nasty names I was called, or the abuse I took for daring to break "the rules?"
Even the French don’t have three letters in a row!
The designer of our nation’s capital?
Latin! Sorry I missed that one. I rarely visit the thread, I just see the puzzles on the FR index page. Very few take more than a couple of minutes. There are some tricks I learned. When the author is four and five letters it's likely Mark Twain. When it's _x_x__x the x is probably n as in "unknown." The name "George" is easy to spot, and so is "Abraham Lincoln." Words with apostrophes are a dead giveaway. Repetitive words hint at rhyme, song lyrics. The word "the" should be banned from the game, it gives the whole thing away.
One T too many
Corrected name of author
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Yah, but the Filipinos do
“Maaasahan, for example
Last weekend the Crypto was reportedly “The hardest ever posted”
I felt guilty and posted easy ones.
I think you’re getting really good at these many send us saying they’re too hard.
Here’s how to make the cryptogram a bit more challenging.
Number one copy and paste the cryptogram onto a word document and then print it out and then try to solve it without the help of HAL using a pen.
Number two try to solve the cryptogram line by line. In other words, you decifer the first line then the second and then the third. We need to make sure, of course that the cryptogram is set up that way rather than one continuous line.
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