Charles Dickens
758 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
- Great Expectations320
- A Tale of Two Cities201
- Oliver Twist191
- A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas42
- A Christmas Carol1
755 of these name the book they came from. The remaining 3 are remarks, letters and speeches, which carry no work.
How hard they are
Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 232 easy, 328 medium and 198 hard. Most of Charles Dickens’s puzzles land in the medium tier.
They average 72.3 letters over 18.9 distinct ones, with 4.1 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 15.6% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.