Cryptogram Puzzles
The classic cryptogram puzzle combined with modern computer tools and
a challenging twist make CRpuzzles' Cryptograms unique. After
deciphering the hidden quotation, solvers must derive the author's
name from the cipher-quote letter pairs to complete their puzzle task.
(For a daily Cryptogram, visit the new site All-Star Puzzles.)
- Cryptogram # 303
Anatomy lesson #2.
- Cryptogram # 302
Anatomy lesson #1.
- Cryptogram # 301
Writing the Great American Short Story.
- Cryptogram # 300
CRpuzzles celebrates its 300th Cryptogram
with a favorite bit of advice.
- Cryptogram # 299
Spoken like a true master.
- Cryptogram # 298
Que sera, sera.
- Cryptogram # 297
Say your prayers.
- Cryptogram # 296
Ask Jeeves.
- Cryptogram # 295
Or three months frying burgers on
the boardwalk in Ocean City.
- Cryptogram # 294
Here comes Freddy Krueger.
- Cryptogram # 293
A true door opener.
- Cryptogram # 292
He's been on the Pennsylvania
Turnpike.
- Cryptogram # 291
The job for us.
- Cryptogram # 290
Little Lewis.
- Cryptogram # 289
Or the Cisco Kid, maybe?
- Cryptogram # 288
A fellow could get stepped on that way.
- Cryptogram # 287
Not "easy come, easy go."
- Cryptogram # 286
Speaking of politics ...
- Cryptogram # 285
Not even a "Mommy, May I?"
- Cryptogram # 284
Master of the house.
- Cryptogram # 283
Dr. King's speech on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial is one of the most inspirational
moments in American history. His leading
Civil Rights marches spoke even more loudly
than his eloquent words.
- Cryptogram # 282
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born
on Jan. 15, 1929.
- Cryptogram # 281
This week, CRpuzzles' crypotgrams celebrate
the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Cryptogram # 280
Sudden vision: a pigeon perched
on Roger Ebert's head.
- Cryptogram # 279
Unless you're Polyphemus.
- Cryptogram # 278
"Outta our way, peasants!"
- Cryptogram # 277
After all, Ivory soap is 56/100 per cent impure.
- Cryptogram # 276
If he's like us, he probably forgets
where he is going--and doesn't care.
- Cryptogram # 275
Crpuzzles' resolve for you for 2002.
- Cryptogram # 274
"One small step ... One small step ...
One small step ..."
- Cryptogram # 273
"All or nothing" is nothing at all.
- Cryptogram # 272
From CRpuzzles, Wish + Resolution = Happiness.
- Cryptogram # 271
Is he saying Enron is a strong buy?
- Cryptogram # 270
See "Seinfeld," episode 116, for verification.
- Cryptogram # 269
Elementary education?
- Cryptogram # 268
So it really does hurt?
- Cryptogram # 267
Who, Horton--me?
- Cryptogram # 266
Whimper while you work.
- Cryptogram # 265
Daedalus might disagree.
- Cryptogram # 264
Codeword: Braggadocio.
- Cryptogram # 263
Welll, shut my mouth!
- Cryptogram # 262
What if it's the only one you ever had?
- Cryptogram # 261
Huh?
- Cryptogram # 260
Support your local sheriff--and library, too.
- Cryptogram # 259
We're glad he didn't know the word "fleeting."
- Cryptogram # 258
The number for Nike is 1-800-BUY-SHOE.
- Cryptogram # 257
ON, don't forget the ON.
- Cryptogram # 256
That old familiar feeling.
- Cryptogram # 255
Move it, move it, move it ...
- Cryptogram # 254
Please give.
- Cryptogram # 253
No, no, your other left.
- Cryptogram # 252
Pass the mustard, please.
- Cryptogram # 251
Did he also write "Is you is or is you ain't?"
- Cryptogram # 250
Mettle Week, #3.
- Cryptogram # 249
Mettle Week, #2.
- Cryptogram # 248
Mettle Week, #1.
- Cryptogram # 247
How do you spell relief?
R-O-L-A-I-D-S.
- Cryptogram # 246
Fame in double-quick time.
- Cryptogram # 245
Our money's on William Jennings Bryan.
- Cryptogram # 244
It's done all the time.
- Cryptogram # 243
She's met the boss.
- Cryptogram # 242
Red flag--speed up! Skull-and-crossbones--drink!
Thin ice--skate!
- Cryptogram # 241
Tempered steel is strong steel.
- Cryptogram # 240
Send in the Marines.
- Cryptogram # 239
Bore-ing!
- Cryptogram # 238
Another Nike spokesman?
- Cryptogram # 237
But doesn't the route from 0-7 to 14-7
go through 7-7?
- Cryptogram # 236
99% inspiration.
- Cryptogram # 235
One giant look for mankind.
- Cryptogram # 234
Rhymes with manipulation.
- Cryptogram # 233
"These are a few of our favorite things ..."
- Cryptogram # 232
It just Dawned on us.
- Cryptogram # 231
Sneaks up on a fellow unawares.
- Cryptogram # 230
Looks a lot like stacking the deck.
- Cryptogram # 229
Yes, but we don't get watery eyes
and scratchy throats either.
- Cryptogram # 228
What are the ones who are too
fat or too slow?
- Cryptogram # 227
You can always imagine you're
behind the wheel of a Mercedes.
- Cryptogram # 226
Remember where you heard it--that's
CRpuzzles, C-R-Puzzles.
- Cryptogram # 225
The B+ Guy's Credo.
- Cryptogram # 224
Deja booboo.
- Cryptogram # 223
In short, just do it!
- Cryptogram # 222
So ignorance is not necessarily bliss.
- Cryptogram # 221
2 of diamonds, 3 of hearts, 4 of hearts,
5 of spades, 7 of clubs.
- Cryptogram # 220
Even Disney World doesn't compare--but
it's close.
- Cryptogram # 219
The non-sins of omission.
- Cryptogram # 218
Hey, Alligator, you should ...
- Cryptogram # 217
A little ego goes a long way.
- Cryptogram # 216
Oh, my! Now that's funny.
- Cryptogram # 215
Mirror, mirror, on the wall ...
- Cryptogram # 214
Leaves a lotta loose threads.
- Cryptogram # 213
A Man of Rock has the final word.
- Cryptogram # 212
A Man of Science is heard from.
- Cryptogram # 211
A Man of Letters speaks.
- Cryptogram # 210
We nominate Valley of the Dolls.
- Cryptogram # 209
Half empty, half full.
- Cryptogram # 208
War and Peace, Chapter 1
- Cryptogram # 207
We agree. Where's our fee?
- Cryptogram # 206
On the 4th of July, we do our part
to preserve the future.
- Cryptogram # 205
The Fireworks Manual, page 1
paragraph 1 line 1.
- Cryptogram # 204
Stay the Course Week, # 3.
- Cryptogram # 203
Stay the Course Week, # 2.
- Cryptogram # 202
Stay the Course Week, # 1.
- Cryptogram # 201
Whap-whap, whap-whap, ...
- Cryptogram # 200
For our 200th Cryptogram, CRpuzzles' star
spokesperson enunciates our corporate vision.
- Cryptogram # 199
He's been in "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood."
- Cryptogram # 198
Ah, yes, we remember him well.
- Cryptogram # 197
All we have to say to this quote
is, "Phooey!"
- Cryptogram # 196
Hurry up and waste.
- Cryptogram # 195
They gave you the $300 ashtray,
and you're still complaining.
- Cryptogram # 194
War and Peace, Prologue
- Cryptogram # 193
Post-post-grad work.
- Cryptogram # 192
Then I guess that makes me a
veritable Little Miss Manners.
- Cryptogram # 191
To paraphrase Jack Nicholson in
A Few Good Men, ...
- Cryptogram # 190
He never heard of La plus ca change,
la plus ca meme."
- Cryptogram # 189
Silver lining time.
- Cryptogram # 188
One of the things Lee Strasberg
never said.
- Cryptogram # 187
It says so in the Bill of Rights.
- Cryptogram # 186
Or move to Morocco.
- Cryptogram # 185
"Ah, yes, I remember it well," too.
- Cryptogram # 184
"Ah, yes, I remember it well."
- Cryptogram # 183
That explains all the losing Lotto
tickets in my wallet.
- Cryptogram # 182
The World according to Alfred E.
"What, me worry?" Neuman.
- Cryptogram # 181
A true 100% effort.
- Cryptogram # 180
This definitely isn't an
H. L. Mencken quote.
- Cryptogram # 179
What about a diamond in the rough?
- Cryptogram # 178
You got your butter, your oil, your
bleach, your axle grease, your linoleum,
your shoe polish, your ink, your face
cream, your glue, your ...
- Cryptogram # 177
Madonna's second credo.
- Cryptogram # 176
Whee halve the same soft wear.
- Cryptogram # 175
The pigeons won't care either way.
- Cryptogram # 174
CRpuzzles made $1,000,000 last
year. Just joking. Ha ha.
- Cryptogram # 173
Under "didn't" in the dictionary, the
first three synonyms are ...
- Cryptogram # 172
But not if it's the naked kind.
- Cryptogram # 171
Read any good .com business plans
lately?
- Cryptogram # 170
One definition of a bad date.
- Cryptogram # 169
Things could have turned out worse,
David.
- Cryptogram # 168
Is that when the curve breaks
sharply downward?
- Cryptogram # 167
One giant leap.
- Cryptogram # 166
Spandex for the soul.
- Cryptogram # 165
No more broccoli, Georgie.
- Cryptogram # 164
At the speed of sound.
- Cryptogram # 163
Like in "Ping went the strings
of my heart"?
- Cryptogram # 162
... new aches and pains.
- Cryptogram # 161
For further information, see Zoot Suit
or Beehive Hairdo.
- Cryptogram # 160
The greatest white water rafting
adventure of them all.
- Cryptogram # 159
Where Alanis Morissette gets her
best material.
- Cryptogram # 158
And if you find a pot o' gold,
remember, it's mine.
- Cryptogram # 157
True, but he did write a
daily newspaper column.
- Cryptogram # 156
A day in the life of England.
- Cryptogram # 155
Dear Boss ... Love, Dilbert
- Cryptogram # 154
Change your second guess into
your best guess.
- Cryptogram # 153
New bestseller: The World According
to Gump
- Cryptogram # 152
We absolutely refuse to give up.
- Cryptogram # 151
Which makes for a tough act
to follow.
- Cryptogram # 150
Ralph Kramden, "This Is Your
Life."
- Cryptogram # 149
At last, a job description
that actually describes the
job.
- Cryptogram # 148
Standing at the corner of 34th St.
and Reality Bites Blvd.
- Cryptogram # 147
The reason why there's a
little i instead of a big
I in gossip.
- Cryptogram # 146
Well, a man's gotta do what a
man's ... gotten used to.
- Cryptogram # 145
Where does TV Guide fit into
the equation?
- Cryptogram # 144
Unless his nickname's Sugar.
- Cryptogram # 143
CRpuzzles Dictionary definition:
"Should" -- Ain't.
- Cryptogram # 142
In Psych 101, it's called
Roadblockaphobia.
- Cryptogram # 141
Yeah, but we all know nobody's ...
- Cryptogram # 140
Wake up and almost smell the roses.
- Cryptogram # 139
Yes, but then we won't be
able to make any pies.
- Cryptogram # 138
Yesterday's cryptogram.
- Cryptogram # 137
Rationalize ... rationalize ...
rationalize.
- Cryptogram # 136
It all depends on your point
of view, example 1.
- Cryptogram # 135
In other words, a couple of million
Floridians can't all be right.
- Cryptogram # 134
AKA "The Galloping Grinder"
- Cryptogram # 133
March 20 paces, turn, and ... squirt!
- Cryptogram # 132
Why dreams turn to dust.
- Cryptogram # 131
The most effective way to curb
population growth CRpuzzles has
heard to date.
- Cryptogram # 130
At last, we know what the French
mean by Savoir Faire.
- Cryptogram # 129
Suggestion for a new Harry Kemelman
novel: One Day the Rabbi Shook
His Head And Said, "I Give Up".
- Cryptogram # 128
Life's little pleasures.
- Cryptogram # 127
Gallop-ing along!
- Cryptogram # 126
A deep thought to deepen your
resolve in 2001.
- Cryptogram # 125
Apt advice as we approach a New
Year--especially for fence sitters.
- Cryptogram # 124
George Plimpton and an idea for
a book.
- Cryptogram # 123
Holding the tail of a green mamba,
Steve Irwin says ...
- Cryptogram # 122
Much to MasterCard's dismay.
- Cryptogram # 121
Oh, go fly a kite!
- Cryptogram # 120
The Faking of a President, 2000
- Cryptogram # 119
My wife is "29"; that explains it.
- Cryptogram # 118
Better than a three-ring circus.
- Cryptogram # 117
"EUREKA!" Example # 1.
- Cryptogram # 116
"Gimme life, judge!"
- Cryptogram # 115
Cool it, dude, before you wig out on
this cockamamie Cryptogram.
- Cryptogram # 114
Hoping against hope.
- Cryptogram # 113
"To thine own self be true."
- Cryptogram # 112
Except behind the wheel, of course.
- Cryptogram # 111
Do as I do, not as I say.
- Cryptogram # 110
Psychiatrists excepted.
- Cryptogram # 109
Follow-on advice from CRpuzzles:
Set your alarm clock to go off early.
- Cryptogram # 108
The Art of Friendship, Precept # 1.
- Cryptogram # 107
Saying does not apply to cigar smoke!
- Cryptogram # 106
Uuuuuuuuh...okay, uuuuuuuuuuh,
we won't.
- Cryptogram # 105
The Art of Diplomacy, Chapter 1.
- Cryptogram # 104
Uh-oh. To quote Pogo: "We have
met the enemy and he is us."
- Cryptogram # 103
Hmmmmm. Guess I'll mosey by the
Serta factory and talk to them.
Sometime this afternoon, after I
get up.
- Cryptogram # 102
One vote for Jim Ignatowski.
- Cryptogram # 101
The Salesman's Creed?
- Cryptogram # 100
(Continued) From Man of La Mancha:
"To fight for the right without question
or pause, To be willing to march into hell
for a heavenly cause!"
- Cryptogram # 99
From Man of La Mancha:
"This is my quest, to follow that
star, No matter how hopeless, no
matter how far." (To be continued)
- Cryptogram # 98
Wishing we were watching the Presidential Debates!
- Cryptogram # 97
Watching the Presidential Debates, Part 2.
- Cryptogram # 96
Watching the Presidential Debates, Part 1.
- Cryptogram # 95
One still drives an Edsel, the other
bought a Yugo with 0.0 miles on it.
- Cryptogram # 94
A bright blue sky, a gentle bubbling brook,
the chirp of a solitary bird. Yawn.
- Cryptogram # 93
"You deserve a break today ..."--Fat
chance!
- Cryptogram # 92
Maybe he should have read Thomas
Wolfe first.
- Cryptogram # 91
Musical interlude # 2: Maurice Chevalier,
"(Ah yes) I Remember It Well"
- Cryptogram # 90
Musical interlude # 1: Garth Brooks,
"The Dance"
- Cryptogram # 89
Final score: Owls 1, Jesters 1,000,000.
- Cryptogram # 88
Now, is that 10 minutes for a full
professor?
- Cryptogram # 87
"Let's practice that one more time:
Grab the chair by the back, ..."
- Cryptogram # 86
"Ann---ie Ann---ie Ann---ie"
- Cryptogram # 85
Maybe CRpuzzles could get a
government grant to try it
on humans.
- Cryptogram # 84
Didn't he ever hear of "Do as
I say, not as I do"?
- Cryptogram # 83
Ah, older but wiser ...
- Cryptogram # 82
At the carry out, that'll be one
statue to go.
- Cryptogram # 81
Please pass the Kleenex.
- Cryptogram # 80
Finally, we're on the same page.
- Cryptogram # 79
Now is that, "Spring forward,
Fall back," or vice versa?
- Cryptogram # 78
So ..., make tea!
- Cryptogram # 77
That's not what the Gipper said.
- Cryptogram # 76
Like Drew Carey, Homer
Simpson, and Roseanne?
- Cryptogram # 75
Vasco put his Da Gama on the
dotted line.
- Cryptogram # 74
A Tree Grows in Crookland.
- Cryptogram # 73
He's not blindfolded.
- Cryptogram # 72
For the same reason we forget
their names.
- Cryptogram # 71
Madonna's credo.
- Cryptogram # 70
Is that mustard on your tie?
- Cryptogram # 69
Polonius wouldn't like it.
- Cryptogram # 68
Polygraph, anyone?
- Cryptogram # 67
Bah, humbug! Bah, humbug!
Bah, humbug!
- Cryptogram # 66
An emotion CRpuzzles' editors
have never experienced.
- Cryptogram # 65
Slow learners, fast learners.
- Cryptogram # 64
How to Succeed at Success?
- Cryptogram # 63
"Do as I say, not as I do..."
- Cryptogram # 62
Count your change.
- Cryptogram # 61
"Those were the days, my friend."
- Cryptogram # 60
They're called children.
- Cryptogram # 59
He never spent a lot of time
with a 5-year-old.
- Cryptogram # 58
Especially if you're seated next
to Albert Einstein.
- Cryptogram # 57
When the big hand is on the ...
- Cryptogram # 56
No, we should set our sights high.
- Cryptogram # 55
So, we should set our sights low?
- Cryptogram # 54
You've obviously met my brother-in-law Bob.
- Cryptogram # 53
Mother said, "It's all in your head."
- Cryptogram # 52
Another way of saying "Retirement"
- Cryptogram # 51
Love and Marriage and
the Royal Carriage
- Cryptogram # 50
Snake eyes for them!
- Cryptogram # 49
Yes, they certainly threw away the mold.
- Cryptogram # 48
It's enough to make you sick.
Is it enough to make you stop?
- Cryptogram # 47
The Anti-Bureaucrat Handbook, Chapter 1
- Cryptogram # 46
Jim Carrey need not apply
- Cryptogram # 45
When the going gets tough, ...
- Cryptogram # 44
Just wait until we're grandparents.
- Cryptogram # 43
Repeat. Calling all stockbrokers.
- Cryptogram # 42
Dr. Pangloss meets the Sage of Baltimore
- Cryptogram # 41
Talk's cheap!
- Cryptogram # 40
... and that you can't outrun
them like you did before.
- Cryptogram # 39
To go boldly ...
- Cryptogram # 38
How to Get a Promotion, Chapter 2.
- Cryptogram # 37
How to Get a Promotion, Chapter 1.
- Cryptogram # 36
Time for a two-ton Alka Seltzer.
- Cryptogram # 35
Louis Pasteur, for example?
- Cryptogram # 34
See ya later, alligator!
- Cryptogram # 33
Calling all stockbrokers.
-
- Cryptogram # 31
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- Cryptogram # 30
... and a jillion campaign promises.
- Cryptogram # 29
Does that include the kids?
- Cryptogram # 28
The result speaks for itself.
- Cryptogram # 27
Trapped again!
- Cryptogram # 26
"To reach the unreachable star ..."
- Cryptogram # 25
We bet George Bush would beg to differ.
- Cryptogram # 24
Stock tip of the week: Paper.
- Cryptogram # 23
Especially if you have a glass jaw.
- Cryptogram # 22
Substitute sculptor, poet, husband, etc.
- Cryptogram # 21
Clint Eastwood was great! Oh, he wasn't?
- Cryptogram # 20
Splat! ... Splat! ... Splat! ...
- Cryptogram # 19
Want Ad #2: Efficiency Expert Urgently Required
- Cryptogram # 18
Want Ad #1: Efficiency Expert Urgently Required
- Cryptogram # 17
It'll absolutely kill 'em.
- Cryptogram # 16
Two lumps of sugar, please.
- Cryptogram # 15
A loud snort or two adds to the effect.
- Cryptogram # 14
Makes a good excuse, anyway.
- Cryptogram # 13
One way to cure a bad habit.
- Cryptogram # 12
Been there, done that.
- Cryptogram # 11
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
- Cryptogram # 10
They have our votes.
- Cryptogram # 9
Guess Lloyd Bentsen lucked out!
- Cryptogram # 8
The way to make progress.
- Cryptogram # 7
So Chevalier had it all wrong?
- Cryptogram # 6
It happens every time.
- Cryptogram # 5
Ah, the spice of life!
- Cryptogram # 4
Maybe, but don't go there either ...
- Cryptogram # 3
So don't go there ...
- Cryptogram # 2
Let's take a vote.
- Cryptogram # 1
Call for volunteers
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