Mark Twain
712 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Mark Twain’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.
These come from Twain's novels A Connecticut Yankee, Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer, and not from the mountain of epigrams the internet ascribes to him. He is the English language's most misattributed author.
Where they come from
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- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court346
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn243
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete123
How hard they are
Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 238 easy, 284 medium and 190 hard. Most of Mark Twain’s puzzles land in the medium tier.
They average 71.3 letters over 19.1 distinct ones, with 4.1 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 33.3% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.
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