Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

CBA YXDA YXL NBUL YXBY ZBEJUX'W B YXMEABJW AXDIA,
BJW QEVJY YXL YMIZLAA YMCLVA MN DZDEP--
ACLLY XLZLJ, PBSL PL DPPMVYBZ CDYX B SDAA.

UXVDAYMIXLVL PBVZMC, WV. NBEAYEA

[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 puzzles Saturday January 13, 2024

HEH: R XHPVVF MPT'C BCPF
XRMLPXQN: SPSF, RC'B MNVQ NICBRQH
HEH: R'EH ANC CN AN PYPF
XRMLPXQN: SPSF, RC'B MNVQ NICBRQH
HEH: CLRB HEHTRTA LPB SHHT
XRMLPXQN: LNURTA CLPC FNI'Q QXNU RT
HEH: BN, EHXF TRMH
XRMLPXQN: R'VV LNVQ FNIX LPTQB, CLHF'XH KIBC VROH RMH

SPSF RC'B MNVQ NICBRQH - WXNG THUCITH'B QPIALCHX

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

Eve: I really can't stay
Richardo: Baby, it's cold outside
Eve: I've got to go away
Richardo: Baby, it's cold outside
Eve: This evening has been
Richardo: Hoping that you'd drop in
Eve: So, very nice
Richardo: I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice

Baby It's Cold Outside - From Neptune's Daughter

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The Recovery of XLZLJ, by Menelaus, Attic black-figure amphora, ca. 550 BCE

[ComputerGuy]

A pack of rubbers is all I can come up with.

[Baldwin77]

THIS ONE CAN STOP A CLOCK...

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Michigan State vs. USC

[ComputerGuy]

I didn’t think of that :)

[Magnum44]

[Buttons12]

UXVDAYMIXLVL PBVZMC

Is that a glitch or a device to make the puzzle a bit tougher?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Glitch. My bad. I am not good a proof reading. I probably typed that in rather than cut and paste, like the rest.

[Buttons12]

That’s ok, Lonesome. They were getting too easy. ;)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Maybe you’re just getting better. I go for fun rather than difficulty and want to appeal to a broad audience.

[Apparatchik]

What a coincidence. I named my latest beer (a Weizenbock) after this work, using this illustration for the label:

[grey_whiskers]

OK, you win the thread.

[scrabblehack]

I didn’t realize she had that power. It didn’t work for Paris.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

What a coincidence. I named my latest beer (a Weizenbock) after this

I actually interviewed WV. NBEAY's son for a job at my company. WV. NBEAY was the president of Harvard at the time. The son was absolutely an outstanding individual, but I don't think he found us to his liking.

[gitmo]

[manna]

Thanks.