Posted on 01/15/2026 5:15:28 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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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.)
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D ZEQEW CMPQDXL EC CTKMLEKMC WEGM D YPTGMX ZDXXTX - EL STX'L STPG DXA JTF ZDX'L NEPM EL. -- BMTPBM C. HDLLTXSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
A CIVIL SERVANT IS SOMETIMES LIKE A BROKEN CANNON - IT WON'T WORK AND YOU CAN'T FIRE IT. -- GEORGE S. PATTON
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
AI makes these obsolete.
I’ll stay where I am, thanks.
The author was afraid to fly. Like me
Cheating.
Took Claude 17seconds. No clues.
I don’t think so. The whole basis of single letter substitution is the data on which letters appear most frequently and which occur next to one another, etc.
Did you create the data and recognition patterns?
The puzzles are intended to exercise your brain. Cut and paste is not a mental exercise. It’s like riding an electric bike for exercise.
OK, you win the thread for that one!
Easy one today. Just took a few seconds.
Thanks.
Im buying an electric bike.
Your buying an electric bike doesn’t make my pedal bicycle obsolete, and doesn’t provide you much exercise.
I guess there is an analogy here. A pedal bike is, in some ways, like wasting your energy on pointless puzzles when there are actual things in the world worth using your brain to do. Yea, I like that. For may part, I work 7 days a week on interesting matters that save people money. And, AI let’s me do a better job.
Rhetorical dueling aside, I do like pedal bikes. They are just way to dangerous for a person my age.
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