Herman Melville
348 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Herman Melville’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.
Moby-Dick, and very little else. Melville's sentences run long and turn several times before they finish, so the ones selected here are the shorter turns rather than the famous paragraphs.
Where they come from
- Moby Dick; Or, The Whale346
- Moby-Dick or, The Whale1
347 of these name the book they came from. The remaining 1 are remarks, letters and speeches, which carry no work.
How hard they are
Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 95 easy, 149 medium and 104 hard. Most of Herman Melville’s puzzles land in the medium tier.
They average 73.2 letters over 19 distinct ones, with 4 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 16.7% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.
Collections
- The Originals1,247
- Moby-Dick346