Jane Austen
1,085 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Jane Austen’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.
Austen finished six novels and we have them all, which is why she accounts for more of the catalog than anyone else. Her style is based on balance and reversal: a clause that sets something up, then a clause that takes it back. That structure is why so many of her sentences stand on their own.
Where they come from
- Pride and Prejudice252
- Mansfield Park225
- Emma216
- Persuasion134
- Sense and Sensibility130
- Northanger Abbey125
- Jane Austen's Letters1
- Love and Friendship1
1,084 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: 316 easy, 421 medium and 348 hard. Most of Jane Austen’s puzzles land in the medium tier.
They average 71.6 letters over 19.3 distinct ones, with 4.2 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 6.5% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.