Today’s Cryptogram

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

BMEL DVZ ZRX DWI, BMEL ME ZRX EXA,
BMEL, RYGGQ KXWWN, YOBDNN ZRX NEDA:
ZRX QXYB MN LDMEL, WXZ RMP LD;
BMEL DVZ ZRX TYWNX, BMEL ME ZRX ZBVX. — YWTBXI WDBI ZXEEQNDE

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. I challenge us with the best ones out there.

The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).

Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days. If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.

PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.

You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!

I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.

You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter.

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One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Enjoy today’s Cryptogram and HAPPY NEW YEAR

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[ComputerGuy]

I went to bed one year and woke up in another.

[A_perfect_lady]

Hark! Jingle! Silver! Gold! (hints, you know.)

[1_Rain_Drop]

Beautiful quote.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Sunday December 31, 2023

GM CX ZCK ZYXQ NWRK LYDMF, CX SMCDM ZYXQ NWRK PMYUQGWKF, CPT JMX MLMKN PMZ NMCK VYPT NWR C GMXXMK ECP. - GMPHCEYP VKCPAJYP

Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

BE AT WAR WITH YOUR VICES, AT PEACE WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS, AND LET EVERY NEW YEAR FIND YOU A BETTER MAN. - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I went to bed one year and woke up in another.

St. Teresa of Ávila went to bed October 4, 1582 and was found dead the next day, October 15, 1582, in part due to papal intervention.

[ComputerGuy]

Good one!

[Magnum44]

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HNY

[southernindymom]

Happy New Year to you also!

[Baldwin77]

MAGA NEW YEAR !!!

[BlueLancer]

[BlueLancer]

[Ozymandias Ghost]

Rhymney’s said: “What will you give me?” Poe wrote of “loud alarum” ones.

[gitmo]

[manna]

Thanks.