Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

DY RLYAAW JS WVP EXM, DY NJAAW JS WVP KPZA, DPA DY FLXEJVPZ JS JA HJBBZ WVP. ― YBZJY OY NVBSY

[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 Sunday January 27, 2024

FH HYBVC SF BUV JSAWSC FUVVB HY TZTVA KHAV AVZR BUZC MUZB HCV UZF BH FZX, ZCE FH HYBVC HCV AVWAVBF UZJSCW KZAAVE SB. — UZAHRE ZLBHC

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

AMONG ALL FORMS OF MISTAKE, PROPHECY IS THE MOST GRATUITOUS. - GEORGE ELIOT, MIDDLEMARCH

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[ComputerGuy]

Do it or die.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

When you hear that Lady Mendl standing up
Now does a handspring landing up-
On her toes
Anything goes

From today's author's wikipedia page:

Her morning exercises were famous. In her memoir, [our author] wrote that her daily regimen at age 70 included yoga, standing on her head, and walking on her hands. "I have a regular exercise routine founded on the Yogi method," [she] said, "introduced to me by Anne Vanderbilt and her daughter, Princess Murat. I stand on my head [and] I can turn cart wheels. Or I walk upside-down on my hands."[38] This facet of her life was immortalized in the title song of Cole Porter's 1934 musical, Anything Goes: "When you hear that Lady Mendl standing up/Now does a handspring landing up/on her toes/anything goes."

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Proverbs 16:24

[A_perfect_lady]

... and have a plan to kill everyone you meet! (Sorry, that quote made me think of Anne Bancroft's advice in Point of No Return).

[Magnum44]

[Baldwin77]

[Baldwin77]

Great idea !

[Baldwin77]

I should easily live to be 200 !!!

[gitmo]

I'll try.

[scrabblehack]

I went down a few blind alleys. At first I thought the author’s first name was DAVID. Then I thought the -AAW words were adverbs but that was only half right, maybe less.

[manna]

Thanks.