Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

QTMB EHTTBDZEM VZ NIHDF YVVF'M RNS. BVRNS DM BWT RNS BV QT TPBHTCTFS IFTNMTR ADBW SVXHMTFY YVH QTDZE NZ DRDVB. AT ADMW SVX N AVZRTHYXF NIHDF YVVF'M RNS! - SVXH RNDFS

UHSIBVEHNC UHTA

"BWT YDHMB VY NIHDF DM BWT RNS AT HTCTCQTH AWNB AT NHT BWT VBWTH 364 RNSM VY BWT STNH." - CNHG BANDZ

[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
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Friday, March 31, 2023

Note: The first three words are scribal error, but a fun challenge. Omit them for ease of solution, or include them for a challenge.

ZIAVTDE JV’HH PUOT UC, CFV YDUOGIJ RIOOVRCUIO, CFV HIMVYZ, CFV TYVDAVYZ DOT AV. —BVYAUC CFV PYIK

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

SOMEDAY WE’LL FIND IT, THE RAINBOW CONNECTION, THE LOVERS, THE DREAMERS AND ME. —PERMIT THE FROG

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[Apparatchik]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[Magnum44]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

To Magnum44…….

[BlueLancer]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Bonus Puzzle:

URROWSD AT’SB QSGY HO, EMU TPSJBLY PSZZZBEUAS, ESL AFDSEA, XKS DUWSTLZL MIC HP. YGSAIY ORG UEMJ

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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

THANK YOU FOR TRYING. IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF RANDOM LETTERS. THERE IS NO SOLUTION.

[Baldwin77]

Back at ya !

[Baldwin77]

That’s funny, I had it solved !

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You’re a genius!

[BlueLancer]

Ya' got me on that one ...

Now I REALLY feel like ...

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

TO Lonesome………

PSZZZBEUAS - is that a word??????

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I made it too easy.

[Roccus]

ZZZZ kinda gave it away. LOL

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

There was only ZZZ. They actually were random letters formed by a random number generator as char(floor(rand*26)+65), with spaces and punctuation taken from yesterday’s puzzle.

[grey_whiskers]

Son of a bark.

It fits, too.

You got me.

[Roccus]

Guess I just didn’t have my eyeballs in the right sockets