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Puzzles Archives - Futility Closet · Aug 29, 2026

In 2007 I posted this cryptic verse by William Whewell: U 0 a 0 but I 0 U, O 0 no 0 but O 0 me; O let not my 0 a 0 go, But give 0 0 I 0 U so. You sigh for a cipher but I sigh for you, O sigh for no cipher, but O sigh for me; O let not my sigh for a cipher go, But give sigh for sigh, for I sigh for you so. In An Almanac of Words at Play (1975), Willard R. Espy offered this addition. What does it say?...