George Eliot
395 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from George Eliot’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.
Middlemarch, with a smaller set from Silas Marner. Eliot interrupts her own plots to generalise about the people in them, and those interruptions are the sentences that come out of the novel intact.
Where they come from
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- Middlemarch352
- Silas Marner43
How hard they are
Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 117 easy, 163 medium and 115 hard. Most of George Eliot’s puzzles land in the medium tier.
They average 72.6 letters over 19.3 distinct ones, with 4 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 23% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.
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