[CovenBuster]

Here’s an extra puzzle today for my fellow cryptogram-aholics. I have no way to assess how many minutes would qualify as good, excellent, exceptional or superior. (I never time myself because I do them for fun and often multitask while working them.) If you enjoy working them against the clock, feel free to post your times. I’ll post the solution (in yellow) on tomorrow’s cryptogram thread. Enjoy!

P QUT U QUT SXTM PM UVEUMQUQ ILUI TUQ ILZ JUQIZQI QUT P ZFZV QUT QUT. PJ KXH’FZ AXI U QUT ILUI BUM QUT UQ JUQI UQ ILZ QUT P QUT QUT SXTM PM UVEUMQUQ, P’S DPEZ IX QZZ KXHV QUT QUT. WHI P WZI KXHV QUT BUM’I QUT UQ JUQI UQ ILZ QUT P QUT QUT SXTM PM UVEUMQUQ, ‘BUHQZ ILZ QUT P QUT QUT SXTM PM UVEUMQUQ PQ ILZ JUQIZQI QUT P ZFZV QUT QUT!
—UMXMKOXHQ

Clue: If I were a carpenter

P.S. to enumerated: I read once where you said you sometimes do them in your head. I do the same thing at times, but it really requires focus. Let me know if you do this one in your head. Pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to, but I’m up in years and my brain’s database is pretty full. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

Thanks, nikos1121, for allowing me to post this!

[Magnum44]

[gundog]

Author in about three seconds.

[blueunicorn6]

Hmmmmm.....

I’ll bet that clue has something to do with it.

“If I were a carpenter.”

My table wouldn’t be made out of rocks.

Is that it?

Did I win?

A new table?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Bonus Puzzle: 4:46.61

Click image for hint:

[enumerated]

Yes, I did this one in my head.

Disclaimer: I’m not going to win any speed contests doing it in my head, because the limitations of my memory retention requires some “reinventing the wheel.”

For example, if I’d used Hal’s Cryptogram Helper on this one, completing the first part would have automatically filled in a lot of the rest and I’d have finished it in a flash...

Whereas, doing it in my head, I stupidly found myself solving things I’d already solved... :-)

But I think in many ways it’s more fun this way.. at least for me.

[Roccus]

Thank you both

[freedom1st]

That was a funny cryptogram I had fun solving. Thanks

[grey_whiskers]

Couldn’t do it in my head, but it sounded like it’d make a great Ray Stevens (”Mississippi Squirrel Revival”, “Guitarzan”) song.

[nikos1121]

Good one!!!!!

[kalee]

Lol sort of like pickled peppers.

[Swordmaker]

P QUT U QUT SXTM PM UVEUMQUQ ILUI TUQ ILZ JUQIZQI QUT P ZFZV QUT QUT. PJ KXH’FZ AXI U QUT ILUI BUM QUT UQ JUQI UQ ILZ QUT P QUT QUT SXTM PM UVEUMQUQ, P’S DPEZ IX QZZ KXHV QUT QUT. WHI P WZI KXHV QUT BUM’I QUT UQ JUQI UQ ILZ QUT P QUT QUT SXTM PM UVEUMQUQ, ‘BUHQZ ILZ QUT P QUT QUT SXTM PM UVEUMQUQ PQ ILZ JUQIZQI QUT P ZFZV QUT QUT! —UMXMKOXHQ

Try saying that five times fast.... just under fifty seconds to solve. So many pattern words and repeats. Most of that time was writing it down...