Wallreaders Contest, Level Two

Another Wednesday, another cipher—and new opportunities for free plays and collections! Congratulations to winners from last week: it might have been a cinch, but you're the ones who cinched it. Ready to really get going?

Level One of the Wallreaders Contest was a pretty quick crack for those sharp quippy chaps, so if you haven't given it a shot yet, go see what you can do with it—it will help you get a leg up in this week's challenge! 

Okay, so you beat level one—but it was called "level one"...

This week contains Rex Patch's favorite puzzle of the month—and he's requested that I "name" this cipher a "Bon-pen", for reasons that are not immediately clear to me and that he, characteristically, refuses to elucidate. All I can tell you with any certainty is that he is simply tickled by that name—every time he used it at our last encounter was accompanied by spontaneous uproarious bellylaughter which startled the other customers at Golden Temple, yet passed from him to them in great contagious gouts... On even my flintiest days, I feel a deep affinity for Dr Patch and an awe of his his decades of experience and "felicitous attention" (as he calls it), and absolutely no mirth was necessary to convince me to accommodate him—but I'll admit the laughing helped.

It was good to see Dr Patch laugh his laugh those few weeks ago—and I know that's how he'd like us to picture him right now, instead of laid up in a gown and picline. The entire Pinkum Press family, past and present, is wishing him the speediest convalescence and, in the meantime, the flirtiest nurses.

This week's Wallreaders challenge—this "Bon-pen Cipher"—is for you, Dr Patch! Get well soon!