Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

ICF DRGZ WCQRMF BP ICQI JQPFJQGG CQP IYARFX OQBMF LADU Q PFWDRX WGQPP WBIBHFR ID Q PFWDRX WGQPP BUUDAIQG. - PQIWCFG OQBMF

[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.

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Saturday, March 2, 2024

[ZFCTZFDD] ZOTFWC HVPO RTFOI. AI AC XTCAKBTX IV ZOTFW HVPO RTFOI. IRT KFET ZTKABC AB IRT CNOABK, SRTB TQTOHIRABK TDCT ZTKABC FKFAB, FBX AI ZDVCCVEC AB IRT CPEETO, UADDABK IRT FUITOBVVBC FBX TQTBABKC, FBX IRTB FC CVVB FC IRT GRADD OFABC GVET, AI CIVNC FBX DTFQTC HVP IV UFGT IRT UFDD FDD FDVBT. - F. ZFOIDTII KAFEFIIA

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

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. A. Bartlett Giamatti

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You may be cool, but you'll never be ****** cool sitting on the bumper of his Packard outside a billiard parlor in Harlem cool.

[Apparatchik]

[Magnum44]

[Baldwin77]

[MayflowerMadam]

Great pic. The “attitude” on his face...

[grey_whiskers]

Never look back. Someone might be gaining on you.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Our author was one season short of qualifying for a MLB pension. Ted Turner signed him for one season, and had an easy chair in the dugout for him.

[BlueLancer]

[scrabblehack]

Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
(One of his rules of life off the top of my head)