Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

HFNJ I SPTNAJYNJV DNGPYNU RPHNAEXK LV LU ONUVAXGVLTN, NWVAITISIJV IJO TLPKNJV; LV LU IJ XUXANA HFLGF VIQNU DANIO EAPY LJJPGNJV YPXVFU IJO ONRALTNU FPJPAIDKN YNJ PE VFNLA UXDUVIJGN, EPA TPVNU HLVF HFLGF VP RNARNVXIVN LVUNKE. - YIAGXU VXKKLXU GLGNAP

[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.

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle, Friday, October 18, 2024

GXD GIMHJSD CKGX GXD IUG IUPD KZ GXUG DYDL KQ FMH CKL, FMH'ID ZGKSS U IUG - SKSF GMVSKL

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

THE TROUBLE WITH THE RAT RACE IS THAT EVEN IF YOU WIN, YOU'RE STILL A RAT - LILY TOMLIN

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[ComputerGuy]

What we have today.

[Political Junkie Too]

Start with LV LU and you should be able to figure out the rest.

-PJ

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

…….. and so it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Look up [GLGNAP] quotes on government.

He saw it coming.

[ComputerGuy]

It looks like we can’t trust anyone, including ourselves.

[grey_whiskers]

Most common letter gives first word, it goes from there.

[metmom]

And here we are.

Watching it in real time.

[metmom]

I started with the single letter because in the cryptogram it was assigned *I* so that left only one option for a word.

Then the LV and LU and the rest fell into place.

I’ve been doing Bible Cryptograms which get uses King James English, which make sit more challenging, but I has really honed by cryptogram skills. There are ten verses each day to work on. And it’s free.

http://www.biblecryptograms.com

[John4.11]

Thanks for posting the Bible Cryptogram link. Can’t wait to check it out.

[Magnum44]

[aquila48]

The more things change the more they stay the same.

[manna]

Thanks.

[Baldwin77]

[gitmo]

I saw that up close during Castro’s regime.

I am seeing it rising here.