Paulo Coelho

17 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Paulo Coelho’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.

Where they come from

  • The Alchemist12
  • Brida1
  • By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept1
  • Eleven Minutes1
  • The Zahir1

16 of these name the book they came from. The remaining 1 are remarks, letters and speeches, which carry no work.

How hard they are

Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 3 easy, 10 medium and 4 hard. Most of Paulo Coelho’s puzzles land in the medium tier.

They average 67.5 letters over 18.7 distinct ones, with 4.3 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 29.4% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.

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