Today’s Cryptogram Challenge

[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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[Apple Pan Dowdy]

👋 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:

• Solving: I suggest printing the puzzle 🖨️ and working on it with pen and paper. You can also copy and paste the text into the helper link below if you prefer a digital tool. (I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter in the Helper for a better challenge).
• Share Time, Not Answers: 🚫 DO NOT post the solution in the general comments. Please DO post your solving time ⏱️ and a brief note on how you made out.
• Solutions & Hints: Send your solution to me via private reply 📩 only. If you need a hint for today’s puzzle, feel free to ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP! 🙋

🔗 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! 🍀

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Enjoy today’s Cryptogram Challenge

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[Apparatchik]

Smart dog

[scrabblehack]

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.

[Repeal The 17th]

Apathy is costly.

[vikingd00d]

[grey_whiskers]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Devious, but not clever. The Artless Dodger.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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.

[Magnum44]

The author was a famous wrestler (WWF maybe)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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

[SharpenedEdge]

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.

[gitmo]

[aquila48]

Or...

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