IF  YOU  SAY  YOU  DON'T  KNOW  SMOKING  IS  BAD  YOU'RE  LYING  THROUGH  YOUR  TRACHEA.

The answer to the second puzzle, a digit-for-digit substitution, is 619.  The complete division is shown at the right.  Michael, Andrzej,  and  Dorothy  had this one correct.

The answer to puzzle #3 is that the overall rnakings spell out GENIUS.  The individual judges' rankings were (from 6 points down to 1 point):  Hook, GEISUN; Line, NUGEIS; and Sinker, EGNISU.  Only  Andrzej  submitted a correct answer.

Some additional credits for past puzzles:  Las month,  Sally  had the cryptogram correct, and  Michael  had puzzle #2 correct.  I also failed to give  John Baker  credit for the first two August puzzles.

M        W Z Q B W I Z W        N O        M        I M Y        E T B        W N S Z O        J T W B H L T        M        O Z E Z W        N Y        M        L V M O O - R B J J B I Z S        R B M J.       

—  G M I Z O        G        E M V A Z W       

X W X K        M V T O E O X M K W        W Z Y H O T        W V U Y H H        N X S Y K W V M Y X M        O G S V T P Y P        R O S L X M E H V W       

—  Q O U H Y M V       

A, B, C, D, E and F spent a wet weekend together.  Luckily they had a chess set and played throughout.  After each game the loser yielded to someone else.  There were no drawn games and no one played more than twice consecutively.

F did not play D but played everyone else twice.  D played everyone but F once.  There were just three other games:  A vs B, A vs C, and B vs E.  C's opponent in the first game of all also played in the last game of all.  Whom was the final contest between?

The Royal Ruritanian Post Office charges one krone per lb for parcels.  Faced with a deficit, the gallant Post Master General has refused to raise the charges.  But he has cunningly withdrawn from circulation all stamps except the 5-krone and 7-krone.  No parcel is accepted unless it bears stamps to at least the value demanded.  One mailer has 100 parcels to send, each weighing a different whole number of pounds from one to 100 lbs.  They are all to be sent separately.  How little will it cost him?