Charles Bukowski

11 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Charles Bukowski’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.

Where they come from

  • Barfly1
  • Love Is a Dog from Hell1
  • Tales of Ordinary Madness1
  • The People Look Like Flowers at Last1
  • Women1

5 of these name the book they came from. The remaining 6 are remarks, letters and speeches, which carry no work.

How hard they are

Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 4 easy, 4 medium and 3 hard. Most of Charles Bukowski’s puzzles land in the easy tier.

They average 72.5 letters over 18.9 distinct ones, with 4 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 18.2% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.

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