Posted on 04/22/2026 4:04:50 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
EGLGF XMAA TE ASLG DTYZ OYMFVMNGFO – MADMWO DTYZ MUUGAGFMYGH MXXGUYTSE. YZGTF ASLG HTOMJJGMFO TE YZG CATEP SX ME GWG ATPG M OZSSYTEV OYMF. -- F.O. UFRN
Clue: Change D to W
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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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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.
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Puzzle:
CQW SFFP ZCQ NQFO. UXM GFDQU DK UF HQRMVKUCQR. — CPYMVU MDQKUMDQClue: Change M to B
Solution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
ANY FOOL CAN KNOW. THE POINT IS TO UNDERSTAND. — ALBERT EINSTEIN
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
I’ve observed that this one was easier than most.
Usually I either give up, or use an AI cracker and don’t comment because I didn’t really solve it.
https://quipqiup.com/#google_vignette
is faster than AI. But you have to paste before it offers its own cryptogram, or overwrite the one it offers.
Comments are always welcome. With practice these are usually easy.
Whoa, that works fast! I just ran this cryptogram through the one I’d used in the past, and got bupkis.
Thanks.
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/k03000/k03736.jpg
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-a/cb1-o.htm
Sungazers, aboard the USS Alaska (CB-1), March 6, 1945, off of Iwo Jima. Notice that the photograph is staged. The shadow of the sextant falls on his chest, not his eye. Note the shadow of the quartermaster’s scribe’s hand. The sun is to the right of the photographer.
Shooting the sun to determine latitude and approximate longitude is done at local solar noon. Local noon near Iwo Jima on March 6th would find the sun at an elevation of 60 degrees above the horizon, not nearly level with the horizon.The sextant appears to be set up for shooting a star earlier in the morning to get a celestial fix during nautical twilight, when celestial fixes are available.
| Once owned a sextant but used it only one time at sea on a cruise returning from WestPac. I learned a little ditty: This is a mnemonic from W.S. Kals’ book How to Read the Night Sky that helps amateur astronomers remember the names of Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon and Pollux, the six first magnitude stars that form the winter hexagon in the northern hemisphere. These are the stars that are bright enough to be seen at sunset, and "shooting the stars" with a sextant is about measuring the height of 3 or more stars above the horizon in that short window of time before the horizon becomes blurred by darkness. A quartermaster timed my readings and did the calculations with satisfying results: 3 of my sight lines resulted in a tight triangular point on the chart. A very satisfying and ephemeral cryptogram indeed. Many thanks, cryptomasters! |
https://quipqiup.com/#google_vignette also allows you to get one clue at a time rather than solving the whole puzzle at once.
Nice! ⛵ Analogously, in the dark ages of my youth, we were given “King Philip Came Over From Greater Saxony” as the mnemonic for “Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species”. 😊
Long ago, I had to pass a test on celestial navigation to earn the Oceans endorsement to my USCG vessel master’s license. I got pretty good at doing the calculations, and kept a plastic Davis Mark 15 sextant aboard my cruising sailboat for emergency purposes. When I was making a trip once from Pensacola, FL to San Juan, PR, I took daily morning, noon and evening stars, supplemented by the occasional sun or moon line when available, all timed by my Casio G-Shock quartz wristwatch. I navigated the vessel by GPS of course, but kept a separate chart plot based upon my celestial fixes and other available information. I was pleased to determine that I could have made a safe transit and accurate landfall on Puerto Rico using only celestial fixes.
That was quite a long time ago. But it was gratifying to see the old tools work
Cool! Now all we have to do is come up with a mnemonic that will be useful to your ordinary FReeper :-)
Congratulations on achieving the USCG license! That’s beautiful planning in the event of an unlikely Bermuda Triangle “adventure”.
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