Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

XN HSXR CG KWNXSHUCSG, FCHV KB FCHVG;
AKKF KH XN OKQFG, NR XCVILN, SHU URGYSCQ!
HKLICHV PRGCUR QRXSCHG. QKJHU LIR URESN
KB LISL EKAKGGSA OQREF, PKJHUARGG SHU PSQR
LIR AKHR SHU ARZRA GSHUG GLQRLEI BSQ SOSN.

KWNXSHUCSG PN YRQEN PNGGIR GIRAARN

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[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.

[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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2 minutes exceptional
90 seconds superior

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Tuesday, May 20, 2025

XJBMDMK ULVJRF ZBQFRMKF FJBYES FMM RB LR RJWR LQ RJM IKBNMFF JM SBMF QBR AMNBZM W ZBQFRMK. WQS LU TBY VWGM EBQV MQBYVJ LQRB WQ WATFF, RJM WATFF XLEE VWGM AWNO LQRB TBY. — UKLMSKLNJ QLMRGFNJM

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

WHOEVER FIGHTS MONSTERS SHOULD SEE TO IT THAT IN THE PROCESS HE DOES NOT BECOME A MONSTER. AND IF YOU GAZE LONG ENOUGH INTO AN ABYSS, THE ABYSS WILL GAZE BACK INTO YOU. — FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert."

[grey_whiskers]

You win the thread.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I had a headstart which should disqualify me from the competition.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Breaking Bad Season 5, Episode 14

[Magnum44]

[manna]

Thanks.

[BlueLancer]

[nikos1121]

[scrabblehack]

Was there an apostrophe before QKJHU?
Author was a cradle robber twice over...basically at the same time.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

No, nor is one necessary, or even preferrable.

[scrabblehack]

I was grown up before I saw lyrics of Silent Night with an apostrophe before “Round Yon Virgin.” Like many others, I imagined a rotund Mary having given birth.

But when I saw ‘Round Yon Virgin, it made sense.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Gather round children and you will hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere