Joseph Conrad

306 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Joseph Conrad’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.

Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness. Conrad's narrators are usually recounting secondhand events with less-than-perfect confidence, so his quotes tend to be about how hard a thing is to say, rather than the thing itself.

Where they come from

  • Lord Jim217
  • Heart of Darkness87
  • An Outcast of the Islands1
  • Chance1

How hard they are

Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 88 easy, 120 medium and 98 hard. Most of Joseph Conrad’s puzzles land in the medium tier.

They average 71.7 letters over 19.3 distinct ones, with 4.1 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 21.6% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.

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