Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

QKH YGN YGLXU JB FEVN, KVJYGNX HANNSM, UEHYM UNAYK UKM

L QKH JEY IGJSSLV' IJYYJV, KVU TM PXJYGNX QKH PKALV' GKM

KVU KY ULVVNX YLTN QN HYJSSNU KVU QKAZNU PKIZ YJ YGN GJEHN YJ NKY

KVU TKTK GJAANXNU JEY YGN PKIZ UJJX, "M'KAA, XNTNTPNX YJ QLSN MJEX BNNY!"

- PJPPM ONVYXM

[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 Wednesday, June 25, 2025

SDK LKP-LDNWK TL P LNWS NM

HKISWPJ CWNIHQ, P YNLS PQAPHSPCKNIL

ENTHS MWNY XDTBD SN BNHSKYEJPSK

SDTL XNWJQ.

- DKHWF QPATQ SDNWKPI, BPEK BNQ

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

The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. - Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

How Meager Must Mr. MacAllister's Ambition Been

[ComputerGuy]

I liked Fancy the best.

[Buttons12]

PJPPM is not the accepted spelling.

[grey_whiskers]

[Magnum44]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Billy Joe 🥲

[manna]

Thanks.

[gitmo]

That is a haunting performance.