Thomas Hardy
469 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Thomas Hardy’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. Hardy writes the landscape as though it were another character, and the quotations that come out cleanest are the ones where he stops describing and states something flatly.
Where they come from
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman235
- Far from the Madding Crowd234
How hard they are
Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 141 easy, 213 medium and 115 hard. Most of Thomas Hardy’s puzzles land in the medium tier.
They average 72.8 letters over 19.1 distinct ones, with 4.1 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 21.3% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.