William Makepeace Thackeray

284 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from William Makepeace Thackeray’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.

Where they come from

  • Vanity Fair283

283 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: 68 easy, 125 medium and 91 hard. Most of William Makepeace Thackeray’s puzzles land in the medium tier.

They average 70.2 letters over 19 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.

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