Nathaniel Hawthorne

82 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.

Where they come from

  • The Scarlet Letter82

How hard they are

Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 20 easy, 38 medium and 24 hard. Most of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s puzzles land in the medium tier.

They average 72.6 letters over 19.2 distinct ones, with 4.1 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 11% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.

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