Charles Dickens
1,381 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Charles Dickens’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.
Drawn from Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol. The Dickens lines that stand alone are usually the ones where the narrator steps back from a scene to judge it, rather than anything a character says inside it.
Where they come from
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- David Copperfield640
- Great Expectations317
- A Tale of Two Cities197
- Oliver Twist188
- A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas39
How hard they are
Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 465 easy, 587 medium and 329 hard. Most of Charles Dickens’s puzzles land in the medium tier.
They average 72.5 letters over 19 distinct ones, with 4 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 20.1% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.
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