Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

AXM QHNLEO BLEOMI RILAMD; PEK, XPNLEO RILA, QHNMD HE: EHI PSS AXJ WLMAJ EHI RLA DXPSS SFIM LA CPVY AH VPEVMS XPSB P SLEM, EHI PSS AXJ AMPID RPDX HFA P RHIK HB LA. ― HQPI YXPJJPQ

[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

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Previous puzzle Tuesday, July 22 , 2025

D'H XDTLW BS YLFTDIJ FEBNX HBILZ, HBILZ, HBILZ, HBILZ, HBILZ. D RNCX GFIX XB QPFZ XYL JFHL, WTDIU QLQCD, GLFT TLLEBU. — CYFONDPPL B'ILFP

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

I'M TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. I JUST WANT TO PLAY THE GAME, DRINK PEPSI, WEAR REEBOK. — SHAQUILLE O'NEAL

HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[ComputerGuy]

An oldie but a goodie.

[MustKnowHistory]

Yes it is.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[Baldwin77]

[grey_whiskers]

(Apologies to Rocky and Bullwinkle)

[Magnum44]

[BlueLancer]

[gitmo]

[scrabblehack]

Overheard in a cockney bookstore: “We ‘ave ‘is Hilliad and ‘is Hodyssey, but not ...”

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“The law assumes you can control your wife.”
“If the law assumes that, then the law is an hass, an hidiot!”