Marilyn Monroe

10 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Marilyn Monroe’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.

Where they come from

  • Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Her Photographs1

1 of these name the book they came from. The remaining 9 are remarks, letters and speeches, which carry no work.

How hard they are

Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 3 easy, 7 medium and 0 hard. Most of Marilyn Monroe’s puzzles land in the medium tier.

They average 67.8 letters over 18 distinct ones, with 4.3 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 50% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.

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