LiteratureHumor
14 words, 18 letters
Humor Cryptogram Puzzles — 71 to Decode
Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Groucho Marx, Will Rogers, Steven Wright. Every quote in here is built the same way — a setup that sounds like it is going somewhere ordinary, then a swerve in the last few words that puts the whole sentence somewhere else entirely.
Which makes these the only puzzles on the site where you cannot coast. With most quotes, recognising the shape lets you guess the ending and work backwards; a joke's entire job is to make the ending unguessable, so the punchline stays genuinely encoded until you have decoded it letter by letter. The payoff arrives all at once, in the final three or four words, and it is hard to beat as a reward for a solve.
The selection is small and stays that way, because the bar is high in an unusual direction: a line has to still be funny after you have stared at it for four minutes in numeric form. Quite a few do not survive that test. The ones here did.
Humor puzzles
Humor
10 words, 20 letters
Humor
16 words, 21 letters
LiteratureHumor
9 words, 18 letters
Humor
19 words, 15 letters
Humor
14 words, 18 letters
LiteratureHumor
15 words, 14 letters
LiteratureHumor
10 words, 17 letters
Humor
10 words, 15 letters
PhilosophyLiteratureHumor
15 words, 17 letters
ArtHumor
9 words, 15 letters
LiteratureHumor
12 words, 18 letters
ScienceHumor
10 words, 20 letters
ArtHumor
10 words, 17 letters
LiteratureHumor
8 words, 19 letters
LiteratureHumor
9 words, 15 letters
Humor
12 words, 20 letters
ScienceHumor
11 words, 18 letters
LiteratureHumor
16 words, 20 letters
Humor
13 words, 20 letters
Humor
9 words, 18 letters
Humor
10 words, 20 letters
LiteratureHumor
10 words, 16 letters
LiteratureHumor
13 words, 19 letters
LiteratureHumor
19 words, 20 letters
Humor
9 words, 18 letters
PhilosophyHumor
23 words, 20 letters
Humor
8 words, 19 letters
ArtHumor
15 words, 18 letters
LiteratureHumor
14 words, 17 letters
LiteratureHumor
11 words, 17 letters
ArtHumor
6 words, 14 letters
Humor
6 words, 14 letters
Humor
13 words, 17 letters
ArtHumor
15 words, 17 letters
Humor
13 words, 19 letters
PhilosophyArtHumor
13 words, 17 letters
PhilosophyLiteratureHumor
11 words, 17 letters
PhilosophyLiteratureHumor
7 words, 16 letters
PhilosophyHumor
7 words, 18 letters
PhilosophyHumor
10 words, 16 letters
LiteratureHumor
6 words, 16 letters
PhilosophyHumor
16 words, 18 letters
Humor
9 words, 17 letters
ArtHumor
8 words, 14 letters
LiteratureHumor
17 words, 19 letters
PhilosophyHumor
10 words, 15 letters
Humor
12 words, 17 letters
PhilosophyHumor
9 words, 15 letters
ArtHumor
16 words, 21 letters
Humor
12 words, 20 letters
Humor
14 words, 21 letters
LiteratureBusinessHumor
8 words, 13 letters
PhilosophyHumor
9 words, 17 letters
ArtHumor
7 words, 15 letters
PhilosophyLiteratureHumor
12 words, 15 letters
LiteratureHumor
15 words, 19 letters
PhilosophyLiteratureHumor
15 words, 17 letters
PhilosophyLiteratureHumor
21 words, 19 letters
LiteratureHumor
10 words, 16 letters
PhilosophyLiteratureHumor
14 words, 17 letters
PhilosophyLiteratureHumor
17 words, 20 letters
PhilosophyLiteratureHumor
10 words, 19 letters
PhilosophyLiteratureHumor
8 words, 15 letters
SciencePhilosophyLiteratureHumor
14 words, 19 letters
PhilosophyLiteratureHumor
13 words, 18 letters
SciencePhilosophyHumor
16 words, 19 letters
MusicHumor
32 words, 22 letters
LiteratureHumor
8 words, 14 letters
ArtHumor
10 words, 16 letters
PhilosophyLiteratureHumor
43 words, 22 letters