Today's Cryptogram

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

UH WPWXNZILN AIFBWQYVSBWT BOW UFHUFUBW UFTBWSL IH HUEUFK BOW LXSUFT, QSFN IH JT RUVV LUW IH AOIVWXS. - DIOF XUAO

[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 puzzles Wednesday, October 29, 2025

UBW JECFERELAFLW PR UBW ZAJJACW PR UENW, XECBU? UBW JECFERELAFLW PR UBW ZAJJACW PR UENW. JP VBWF QPO UBEFY AMPOU EU, UBWXW EJ CXWAU JECFERELAFLW UP UBW ZAJJACW PR UENW...UBWXW EJ JOLB CXWAU JECFERELAFLW UP UBW ZAJJACW PR UENW. - TELW ZXWJEIWFU - YANAKA BAXXEJ

RPX UBPJW PR OJ VBP MWKEWTW EF ZBQJELJ, UBW IEJUEFLUEPF MWUVWWF ZAJU, ZXWJWFU AFI ROUOXW EJ PFKQ A JUOMMPXFKQ ZWXJEJUWFU EKKOJEPF - AKMWXU WEFJUWEF

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

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME, RIGHT? THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME. SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, THERE IS GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TO THE PASSAGE OF TIME...THERE IS SUCH GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TO THE PASSAGE OF TIME. - VICE PRESIDENT - KAMALA HARRIS

FOR THOSE OF US WHO BELIEVE IN PHYSICS, THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE IS ONLY A STUBBORNLY PERSISTENT ILLUSION - ALBERT EINSTEIN

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Or Maybe Not

[Political Junkie Too]

-PJ

[Magnum44]

[grey_whiskers]

[Baldwin77]

[manna]

Thanks.

[BlueLancer]

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

[Peter ODonnell]

Believe it or not, there are two words (at least) that fit the clue UFHUFUBW — the correct one and also CONCOCTS which then doesn’t work out very well in the next three words co_ts__ Io ncEcoK — but eventually I worked out the right word instead of concocts and ended up fixing my problem.

So now I will be healthy.