Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

NMOQLBVU FMJU MULYLOQ: FMJ ZVUV OMS EDBV SM WLXV DQ HUJSVQ, HJS SM RMWWMZ XLUSJV DOB COMZWVBYV. BDOSV DWLYALVUL

[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]

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

4 minutes good
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90 seconds superior

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Friday, March 10, 2023

WDD UZXGOIBQ YWLI QIJGIH EIQHSOWHSZOQ ZA KYSJY HYI

HGWLIDIG SQ XOWKWGI. —RWGHSO VXVIG

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

ALL JOURNEYS HAVE SECRET DESTINATIONS OF WHICH THE TRAVELER IS UNAWARE. —MARTIN BUBER

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Virgil carried today's author on to the fourth rottenpocket, in the eight circle of Hell, reserved for soothsayers and astrologers. Their heads are turned to face backwards, so that the tears streaming from their eyes wet their buttocks, and they could only ever see where they had been, not where they are going.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Our MULYLOQ:

[Baldwin77]

Good to know !

[ComputerGuy]

I wear it on my sleeve.

[A_perfect_lady]

The FMJU/FMJ words should have been immediately obvious, but I kept blundering around thinking they were THE/THEY or THEN and it took me forever to figure out, if not that, then what?? When I finally realized, I was like *idiot*.

[grey_whiskers]

And the third only said, “Mustard, please,” and slept hard.

[Magnum44]