Today’s Cryptogram Challenge

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

IDBG PI YO YI, OGH QUHII GPI KHBMVH OGH XUHPOHIO QMFHU FYOGYA OGH FHIOHUA FMUZR, VMUH QMFHUSDZ OGPA OGH ZHXYIZPODUH, OGH HTHBDOYWH PAR LDRYBYPUE. MAH FMDZR ZYJH OM PIJ; KE FGMV GPI YO KHHA HZHBOHR PAR OM FGMV YI YO UHIQMAIYKZH? — PZHJIPARU IMZNGHAYOIEA

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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

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[ComputerGuy]

A Rooski?

[Political Junkie Too]

-PJ

[Kudsman]

Truth

[SouthWall]

Great one today, Thanks

[Magnum44]

[T.B. Yoits]

[grey_whiskers]

“And how we burned in the camps, later, asking ‘WHy did we listen to CNN and MSNBC?’ “

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Previous puzzle Sunday, February 1, 2026 First Puzzle:

YPZ QZOXJHXE VJBVPGBZ VYZZWV ESJX OSJTPV HBA YGBYV YPZ OJAV HBA VCZUUV YPZ UZHKZV CGYPGB.” — CGUUGHF D. OXEHBY

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

THE FEBRUARY SUNSHINE STEEPS YOUR BOUGHS AND TINTS THE BUDS AND SWELLS THE LEAVES WITHIN.” — WILLIAM C. BRYANT

HAL’S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[SharpenedEdge]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Words of wisdom from one who lived it.

[manna]

Thanks.