Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

S UE ANWVWBEVW SPZSAW KQ BWCCEJ ISASXWPY SP WZWVQ MGVA EB ANW RPSAWU YAGAWY, GPU GCYE ANEYW JNE GVW GA YWG GPU ANEYW JNE GVW YELERVPSPT SP BEVWSTP CGPUY, AE YWA GMGVA GPU EDYWVZW ANW CGYA ANRVYUGQ EB PEZWKDWV PWHA, GY G UGQ EB ANGPFYTSZSPT GPU MVGSYW AE ERV DWPWBSIWPA BGANWV JNE UJWCCWAN SP ANW NWGZWPY. - GDVGNGK CSPIECP, EIAEDWV 3, 1863

[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.## ping list message

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If you need a clue ask the group to send you a letter to your private reply.

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Previous puzzle, Friday, November 22, 2024

JLTFT OC QET BDP JLDJ OC QVFC. JLDEWCXOGOEX BDP OC JLT QET BDP JLDJ OC YVFTUP DATFOZDE. - Q. LTEFP

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

THERE IS ONE DAY THAT IS OURS. THANKSGIVING DAY IS THE ONE DAY THAT IS PURELY AMERICAN. - O. HENRY

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[ComputerGuy]

Thanks to the author for having such a recognizable name.

[Baldwin77]

[Baldwin77]

[metmom]

The date made it easy.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[enumerated]

I often make rules for myself to make these more of a challenge.

For example, I might forego Hal’s Cryptogram Helper and solve it in my head.
Or, if that’s too difficult, I might fill in the Helper, but in order - from first letter to last, or last letter to first.

This one I completed last letter to first, since the date had allowed me to guess the author…

[Jumper]

A timely quote that speaks thru the ages.

[manna]

Thanks.

[John4.11]

I think this one used every letter except 1.

[ComputerGuy]

Two ancestors of mine, Pilgrim Richard Warren and ship’s officer William Clark(e) were on that boat. Clark(e) made at least three trips to Jamestown, which is listed as his place of death.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Stephen Hopkins, and his daughter Constance are my ancestors. He is interesting for having been a Bermuda castaway and Jamestown visitor prior to arriving in Plymouth. The character Stephano in Shakespeare's The Tempest is supposedly based on Stephen Hopkins. He was in Jamestown at the same time as Pocahontas, though there is record of their ever having met, but he at least must have known her.

[ComputerGuy]

I’ll check them out. I’m 99.9999% Jamestown area from what I know.

[gitmo]

Easy one today. EIAEDWV opened everything up.

[ComputerGuy]

I just got lots of hits for Stephen Hopkins. None in my tree, though.

[Magnum44]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215014000/stephen-hopkins

I can easily trace this down to my Great-Grandmother on find-a-grave. The descendants of Mayflower passengers are more thoroughly documented than European royal bastards.