Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

BRY MYCBR DI MYODEWCES XN KDB VXJYVS BD UY CK CNNCNNXKCBXDK IWDO COUPNR. XB LXVV UY C NVDL YTBXKEBXDK IWDO CACBRS, XKMXIIYWYKEY, CKM PKMYWKDPWXNROYKB. WDUYWB O. RPBERXKN

[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.

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

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.## ping list message

[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, Saturday July 13, 2024

WFDDNKCXDN
ZVT CAN JXRXV' XW NZWL
SXWA ZKN MFDOXV'
ZVT CAN IGCCGV XW AXPA
GA, LGFK TZTTL'W KXIA
ZVT LGFK DZ XW PGGT-JGGEXV'
WG AFWA, JXCCJN QZQL
TGV'C LGF IKL

DFWXI QL PNGKPN PNKUXV, JLKXIW QL TFQGWN ANLUZKT ZVT XKZ PNKWAUXV

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

Summertime
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy's rich
And your ma is good-lookin'
So hush, little baby
Don't you cry

Music by George Gerwin, Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[ComputerGuy]

The last word is what I’m suffering from at the moment. Time for breakfast!

[SaveFerris]

got it

[Magnum44]

Fight

[Baldwin77]

Psalm 91

91 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

[gitmo]

[manna]

Thanks.