Mark Twain
744 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
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court350
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn246
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete125
- Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World1
722 of these name the book they came from. The remaining 22 are remarks, letters and speeches, which carry no work.
How hard they are
Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 247 easy, 297 medium and 200 hard. Most of Mark Twain’s puzzles land in the medium tier.
They average 71 letters over 19.1 distinct ones, with 4.2 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 33.2% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.