H. G. Wells
291 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from H. G. Wells’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.
The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. Wells writes his catastrophes in the register of a man filing a report, and the calm of that voice is what makes the lines quotable out of context.
Where they come from
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- The war of the worlds200
- The Time Machine91
How hard they are
Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 73 easy, 130 medium and 88 hard. Most of H. G. Wells’s puzzles land in the medium tier.
They average 72.1 letters over 19.2 distinct ones, with 4.1 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 8.9% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.
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