Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

JYT CMDDTNTVET UTJZTTV JYT HXFIWJ NMPYJ ZINC HVC JYT NMPYJ ZINC MW NTHXXA H XHNPT FHJJTN. 'JMW JYT CMDDTNTVET UTJZTTV JYT XMPYJVMVP USP HVC JYT XMPYJVMVP.

[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, Friday, August 9, 2024

FGHAVLHV CRJGAIKC MGCA KCAIBV OH L FCKVLOH MCNKCC GS FGHVLWOHLVOGH - AJGFQ:"VPC NLWCAVCKA GS VKOAQCBOGH"- A2 C16

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

CONSTANT EXPOSURE DOES RESULT IN A CERTAIN DEGREE OF CONTAMINATION - SPOCK:"THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION"- S2 E16

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[ComputerGuy]

ZAP!

[aquila48]

[gitmo]

[Baldwin77]

[Baldwin77]

SORRY the GIF is so huge, I thought I had “shrunk” it enough !

[Magnum44]

[FatherofFive]

Interesting. I put this Cryptogram into ChatGPT to see how it would do. It gave me NINE obviously incorrect answers. I had to stop because “You’ve hit the Free plan limit for GPT-4o”

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Try adding "width = 33%> between the same brackets as the source address, but afterwards. And precede with < center> but no space before the text "center"

[Baldwin77]

So did you figure it out ?

[manna]

Thanks.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[FatherofFive]

Yes I did. About 30 seconds

I put together a spreadsheet that helps solve cryptograms, and I will share it if anyone wants it. Send me a PM with an email address

What it does is the following:
1. Paste the Cryptogram into Cell A1, and press the "Parse" button. The tool will put each character, including blanks into a separate column.
2. When you enter a character into the row below, the tool adds that letter below every corresponding letter

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I created a spreadsheet that does something similar, except that when you enter the cryptogram, it parses each letter and space into a series of cells one character wide. If I guess any one letter (like HAL) it fills in the same letter below each instance of the letter. It’s like HAL when I cannot get to HAL.