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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!
Many thanks to Edgar Allen Poe for inventing the cryptogram in his short story, “The Gold Bug.”
KSKZTVGK ME WGMFWK. DVJLBZK GVI TVWZEKHO RMIQ BGTVGK KHEK HKEI TVW ELVMH AVU'E DWZZMDWHWJ. -- YBBH EQKJ IVSSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
EVERYONE IS UNIQUE. COMPARE NOT YOURSELF WITH ANYONE ELSE LEST YOU SPOIL GOD'S CURRICULUM. -- BAAL SHEM TOV
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
Ugh! Obviously a quote from a woman. No one actually thinks like this except for a narcicist jerk that writes quotes just for the sake of trying to write quotes.
The Caesar cipher goes way back before Ed Poe.
I did not know that. Very interesting!
6/27
She was Helen Keller’s tutor, she was “The Miracle Worker”. She was blinded at a young age by disease, and educated at the Perkins School for the blind. She faced struggles enough in her own life. If you can walk a mile in her shoes, or see the world through her damaged eyes for a moment, maybe she might not seem to be such a narcistic jerk. There is something deeply heroic about her life.
How do you make Helen Keller shut up?
Put oven mitts on her.
Why can’t Helen Keller drive a car?
She’s a woman.
Helen Keller walks into a bar, then a table, then a chair...
It's easy to grin
When your ship come in,
And you've got the stock market beat.
But what's it about
When you cry, scream, and pout,
And you're just standing out in the street?
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Thanks.
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