Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

YBJ CSXOY KC ZFXSW SO YBJ RZM UJ XJIJIEJX UBZY UJ ZXJ YBJ KYBJX 364 RZMO KC YBJ MJZX. - IZXH YUZSQ

[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
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90 seconds superior

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle, Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024

OZTEQK KZF NPTJ EQ TEQFD KPJGH, GNNFNBEG! FGTKZ GDJ ZFGAFD ED OZPTBQ QGH, GNNFNBEG! TGEQF HPBT YPHQ GDJ KTEBVXZQ ZEWZ, GNNFNBEG! QEDW, HF ZFGAFDQ, GDJ FGTKZ TFXNH, GNNFNBEG! — OZGTNFQ LFQNFH

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

CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY, ALLELUIA! EARTH AND HEAVEN IN CHORUS SAY, ALLELUIA! RAISE YOUR BOYS AND TRIUMPHS HIGH, ALLELUIA! SING, YE HEAVENS, AND EARTH REPLY, ALLELUIA! — CHARLES WESLEY

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[grey_whiskers]

Fourteen more days until tax day...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Already got my Federal and State refund, and I e-filed late this year.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Reminds me of that old saying…….

Fool me once shame on me, fool me 250,000 times you might be a weatherman

[Baldwin77]

[ComputerGuy]

I always owe money and wait until the last day to send it in.

[Magnum44]

[Political Junkie Too]

-PJ

[gitmo]

You win.

[manna]

Thanks.