Friedrich Nietzsche

15 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Friedrich Nietzsche’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.

Where they come from

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra1

1 of these name the book they came from. The remaining 14 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, 7 medium and 4 hard. Most of Friedrich Nietzsche’s puzzles land in the medium tier.

They average 67.5 letters over 18.5 distinct ones, with 4.2 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 13.3% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.

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