Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

206 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.

Where they come from

  • Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus205
  • Frankenstein1

How hard they are

Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 63 easy, 95 medium and 48 hard. Most of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s puzzles land in the medium tier.

They average 76.1 letters over 19.5 distinct ones, with 3.8 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 1.5% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.

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