Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

VT NOQ KVNNKQ ZCGKM VT ZOVEO

EOVKMGQT OHDQ NOQVG QJVINQTEQ,

ZOCICQDQG PGVTBI NOQF WX, NOQGQ

VI TCNOVTB IC RVTQKS XQGEQVDQM

HTM IC RVTQKS RQKN, HI VTLWINVEQ.

- EOHGKQI MVEAQTI

[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]

Previous puzzle Tuesday, June 17, 2025

VWJO DAVYQ RBMRFN VB DAQ DMCDA YQQH DV YFJQWPQ NQERDQ, FWDFUFNRDQ DAVYQ XFDA XAVU DAQO NFYRKMQQ, VM YJRWNQM DAQFM FNQVJVKFPRJ PVCWDQMZRMDY. DAVYQ XAV HWVX DAQO RMQ MFKAD ARSQ WV MQRYVW DV YDFBJQ NQERDQ EQPRCYQ DAQO MQRJFTQ DARD RJJ VZZVYFWK RMKCUQWDY XFJJ CJDFURDQJO EQ VSQMPVUQ EO BRPD. ― KJQWW EQPH

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

ONLY THOSE AFRAID OF THE TRUTH SEEK TO SILENCE DEBATE, INTIMIDATE THOSE WITH WHOM THEY DISAGREE, OR SLANDER THEIR IDEOLOGICAL COUNTERPARTS. THOSE WHO KNOW THEY ARE RIGHT HAVE NO REASON TO STIFLE DEBATE BECAUSE THEY REALIZE THAT ALL OPPOSING ARGUMENTS WILL ULTIMATELY BE OVERCOME BY FACT. ― GLENN BECK

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[BlueLancer]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[grey_whiskers]

[Baldwin77]

[Magnum44]

[SharpenedEdge]

Excellent quote!

[manna]

Thanks.