Oscar Wilde

242 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Oscar Wilde’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.

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Mostly The Picture of Dorian Gray, with a scattering from the plays. Wilde built epigrams deliberately and put them in his characters' mouths, giving us quotations that were designed to be repeated before anyone repeated them.

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How hard they are

Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 56 easy, 107 medium and 79 hard. Most of Oscar Wilde’s puzzles land in the medium tier.

They average 69.1 letters over 18.9 distinct ones, with 4.3 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 14% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.

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