Robert Louis Stevenson
255 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Robert Louis Stevenson’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.
Treasure Island and Kidnapped, both adventure novels narrated by a young man remembering. Stevenson keeps his sentences short and concrete. That makes his puzzles read plainly once they open, and gives the solver a challenge while they are still closed.
Where they come from
- Treasure Island135
- Kidnapped116
- Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson1
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes1
253 of these name the book they came from. The remaining 2 are remarks, letters and speeches, which carry no work.
How hard they are
Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 102 easy, 99 medium and 54 hard. Most of Robert Louis Stevenson’s puzzles land in the easy tier.
They average 75.8 letters over 19.4 distinct ones, with 3.9 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 18% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.
Collections
- The Originals1,247
- Treasure Island135
- Kidnapped116