Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

EJCUHJFFH CW PLYWXNLH FXV GK WFXDHW YDH WPLUUW YDH WCQJVW, GLZFNL VJL HYNI JFXN FZ NLYWFD QNFRW. OFJD GLVOLPYD

[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.

4 minutes good
3 minutes excellent
2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Saturday, March 22, 2025

HP BSHDXU RJVDV YPUXFXU; HP VTUSHE VASTV SDV DCUH. —LJR NPURJHQ

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

NO WINTER LASTS FOREVER; NO SPRING SHIPS ITS TURN. —H AL BORLAND

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Wednesday, March 26, 2025

AVEVWA L MLTXHL ZU QVLWX LHIOR VR FVYX AVEVWA L DLWQ AHXWLQX ZU L ILIJ. - WUHTLF TLVFXH

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

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like giving a hand grenade to a baby. - Normal Mailer

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[Magnum44]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[BlueLancer]

[BlueLancer]

Be it sight, sound, smell, or touch
There's something inside that we need so much
The sight of a touch or the scent of a sound
Or the strength of an oak with roots deep in the ground
The wonder of flowers to be covered and then to burst up
Through tarmac, to the sun again
Or to fly to the sun without burning a wing
To lie in a meadow and hear the grass sing
To have all these things in our memories' hoard
And to use them, to help us, to find...

Departure (The Moody Blues)

[Baldwin77]

[manna]

Thanks.