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Today’s Cryptogram Challenge

Posted on 12/02/2025 1:53:06 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy

DPX CAMVX FUUB HXY CNK SUA MYBMSSXAXYVX DU CGOJMV NSSNMAW MW DU OX AGJXB OK XLMJ HXY. — CJNDU


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👋 Hello,

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!

🧩 How the Cryptogram Works

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.

📋 Instructions & Community Etiquette

Please follow these guidelines for the best experience for everyone:

🔗 HAL’S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

💡 Post a Clever Clue

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! 🍀

1 posted on 12/02/2025 1:53:06 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy
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To: 4Liberty; absalom01; alicewonders; AloneInMass; Apple Pan Dowdy; Aria; AUsome Joy; babyfreep; ...

Enjoy today’s Cryptogram Challenge


2 posted on 12/02/2025 1:53:55 AM PST 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 12/02/2025 1:54:30 AM PST 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
Smart dog


4 posted on 12/02/2025 2:03:29 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

The real link is:
https://www.hjkeen.net/htoys/cryptogm.htm

Found it at:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4355420/posts

The clues for that one work here too.


5 posted on 12/02/2025 2:04:08 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Apathy is costly.


6 posted on 12/02/2025 2:34:20 AM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

7 posted on 12/02/2025 3:41:10 AM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: vikingd00d

8 posted on 12/02/2025 4:44:42 AM PST 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
Previous puzzle Monday, December 1, 2025

BWFE OJPCEH SEA DFKKCEH SQF RVEUQVKKFA OP KFHCDKSUCVE, UWF GCQDU UWCEHD UV OF OVJHWU SEA DVKA SQF KFHCDKSUVQD. — M. T. V'QVJQXF

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

WHEN BUYING AND SELLING ARE CONTROLLED BY LEGISLATION, THE FIRST THINGS TO BE BOUGHT AND SOLD ARE LEGISLATORS. — P. J. O'ROURKE
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

9 posted on 12/02/2025 4:47:01 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ( )
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To: vikingd00d

Devious, but not clever. The Artless Dodger.


10 posted on 12/02/2025 4:50:58 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ( )
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To: grey_whiskers
There is,

anarchy, absence of government
autarchy, authoritarian government
cryptarchy, secret government
gynarchy, rule by women
monarchy, rule by a hereditary head of state
and innumerable other forms of government. From 2021 to 2024, the United States was a Stylographic Republic, ruled by a writing intrument.
11 posted on 12/02/2025 5:11:54 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ( )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
The author was a famous wrestler (WWF maybe)


12 posted on 12/02/2025 5:28:30 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.

-- Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College


13 posted on 12/02/2025 5:41:29 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ( )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Truer words were never written. Those old white guys (well, old Hellenic white guys) knew a thing or two. Apathy has brought us to the edge of ruin.


14 posted on 12/02/2025 8:06:52 AM PST by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

15 posted on 12/02/2025 8:25:12 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Or...

“You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.”


16 posted on 12/02/2025 8:53:30 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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