Louisa May Alcott
320 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Louisa May Alcott’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.
All from Little Women. In the book, the characters state their principles out loud to each other, leaving an unusual number of complete, self-contained sentences behind.
Where they come from
- Little Women320
How hard they are
Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 115 easy, 134 medium and 71 hard. Most of Louisa May Alcott’s puzzles land in the medium tier.
They average 72.6 letters over 19.4 distinct ones, with 4 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 45% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.
Collections
- Little Women320