Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

HMXC HMMQI RMP YUPW PWC CKCI, TEP YUPW PWC JURB, ORB PWCNCSMNC UI YURFCB VEDUB DOURPCB THURB - O JUBIEJJCN RUFWP'I BNCOJ

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A familiar author

If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Saturday 2/12/2022

KUAAUPQHY CFB AQYFC UK CFB EIH, PB ABKC CFB UAW PUMAW. - SFMQECUOFBM SUAIZTIE

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

FOLLOWING THE LIGHT OF THE SUN, WE LEFT THE OLD WORLD. - CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

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[ComputerGuy]

They say he was right.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Very appropriate for tomorrow’s Valentines Day.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

And now I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

[grey_whiskers]

[GreatRoad]

A timely quote!

[Magnum44]

[lefty-lie-spy]

That’s finished, so now I can go get a drink.

Remember your options for double letters in the English language and check for apostrophe’s two and three letter words, and other telltale hints to get things started.

[absalom01]

Thanks, this was a good one!

[Political Junkie Too]

I forgot that I missed this one.

It took only a minute. I started with the word after the first comma, then the most common letter and most common word, then a few words before the first comma, and that revealed the author/piece. The rest flowed from there.

-PJ