Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

TG LDY VZOTZQZ TK ADWZERTKX,

LDY KZZH ED RBQZ ERZ IDYPBXZ

ED GTXRE GDP ERDAZ THZBA - KDE

PYK BSBL GPDW ERZW DP EPL

BKH ATOZKIZ ERZW. - IRBPOTZ UTPU

[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 Wednesday, September 10, 2025

FGBXDUP GB XFA HGXTABB XFWX XABXGKGAB

XD XFA ZWBBGTO DK XGQA; GX GVVMQGTAB

UAWVGXP, RGXWVGNAB QAQDUP, ZUDRGCAB

OMGCWTJA GT CWGVP VGKA WTC SUGTOB MB

XGCGTOB DK WTXGYMGXP.

- QWUJMB XMVVGMB JGJAUD

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

HISTORY IS THE WITNESS THAT TESTIFIES TO THE PASSING OF TIME; IT ILLUMINES REALITY, VITALIZES MEMORY, PROVIDES GUIDANCE IN DAILY LIFE AND BRINGS US TIDINGS OF ANTIQUITY. - MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

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[MustKnowHistory]

Thank you.

[SharpenedEdge]

Truth is the most powerful force in the world. Truth will overcome all. Thank you.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

There are so many historical events whose true course has fallen to the narrative that I am convinced that actual events, truth, is merely used to frame a narrative. In Columbus’s time all educated people knew the world war round. Sacco and Vanzetti were as guilty as hell, but became a cause for the Left. People build a world view based on a grain of truth and a mountain of surmise.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Even the angles are crying today

[ComputerGuy]

The angels too ;)

[BlueLancer]

[nikos1121]

[grey_whiskers]

FGBXDUP GB XFA HGXTABB XFWX XABXGKGAB
XD XFA ZWBBGTO DK XGQA; GX GVVMQGTAB

UAWVGXP, RGXWVGNAB QAQDUP, ZUDRGCAB

OMGCWTJA GT CWGVP VGKA WTC SUGTOB MB

XGCGTOB DK WTXGYMGXP.

- QWUJMB XMVVGMB JGJAUD

[grey_whiskers]

404 coffee not found error.

Did not sleep well.

All I will say is. RIP.

[Magnum44]

[Baldwin77]

"Procession of Martyrs"

[manna]

Thanks.

[manna]

Thanks.