Northwest Florida Mensa
Cryptogram Solutions
November 2009
Easy Level
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
~Jim Bouton
Challenge Level
Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.
~Paul Harvey
October 2009
Easy Level
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
~Mitch Hedberg
Challenge Level
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
~Georg C. Lichtenberg
September 2009
Easy Level
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
~Bill Cosby
Challenge Level
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
~Stephen King
August 2009
Easy Level
The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Challenge Level
Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.
~Wilder Penfield
July 2009
Easy Level
We are more than cells, synapses and sex drives. We are amazing, mysterious creatures forever in search of something greater than ourselves.
-- Charles M. Blow
Challenge Level
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
~George Bernard Shaw
June 2009
Easy Level
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
~Dolly Parton
Challenge Level
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
~Scott Adams
May 2009
Easy Level
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
~William A. Ward
Challenge Level
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
~Christopher Morley
April 2009
Easy Level
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
~Jimi Hendrix
Challenge Level
Music can change the world because it can change people.
~Bono
March 2009
Easy Level
The notion that we can take and take and take and take, waste and waste, without consequences, is driving the biosphere to destruction.
-- Ray Anderson
Challenge Level
Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers.
-- Bruce Calvert
February 2009
Easy Level
Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip.
-- Raymond Chandler
Challenge Level
Only dead fish swim with the current.
-- Linda Ellerbee
January 2009
Easy Level
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
~Honore de Balzac
Challenge Level
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
~Mark Helprin
December 2008
Easy Level
One Christmas was so much like another,...that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twleve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
~Dylan Thomas
Challenge Level
There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
~Erma Bombeck
November 2008
Easy Level
I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
~Robert Benchley
Challenge Level
Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
~Oscar Wilde
October 2008
Easy Level
When you are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that. ~Duffy Daugherty
Challenge Level
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
~Lou Holtz
September 2008
Easy Level
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~Bill Cosby
Challenge Level
Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.
~Douglas Busch
August 2008
Easy Level
If you have a talent, use it in every way possible.
Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
~ Brendan FrancisChallenge Level
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
~Lady Marguerite Gardiner Blessington
July 2008
Easy Level
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~Ralph Nader
Challenge Level
The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. ~Bill Strickland
May 2008
Easy LevelThe negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
~Ansel AdamsChallenge Level
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
~Henri Cartier-Bresson
April 2008
Easy Level
I see it all perfectly: There are two possibilities; one can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it, you will regret it either way
~KierkegaardChallenge Level
He had an astringent spirit, the sort of fellow who uses dehydrated onion when the recipe calls for fresh, not because he's out but solely on principle.
~Emme Woodhull-Bäche
March 2008
Easy Level
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
~Samuel ButlerChallenge Level
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
~Brooks Atkinson
February2008
Easy Level
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
~Jonathan Carroll
Challenge Level
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst
January 2008
Easy Level
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson
Challenge Level
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
~Confucius
December 2007
Easy Level
"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."~ Calvin Coolidge
Challenge Level
"Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard which hides his face, has no discernible source of income, and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?"~Tom Armstrong
October 2007
Easy Level
"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin."~ Linus Van Pelt
Challenge Level"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."~ Miguel de Cervantes
September 2007
Easy Level
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ~Betty Reese
Challenge LevelIdealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ~David T. Wolf
August 2007
Easy Level
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
~Edgar W. HoweChallenge Level
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
~Harriet Braiker
July 2007
Easy LevelAnybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.Challenge Level
~Robert ByrneLove is not the dying moan of a distant violin. It's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
~S.J. Perelman
June 2007
Easy Level
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.Challenge Level
~David BrennerWomen, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.
~Billy Elmer
May 2007
Easy Level"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."Challenge Level
~ George Bernard Shaw"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
~ Wilson Mizner
Last Revision
November 14, 2009
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