Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy's pastoral of Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors.

234 cryptograms drawn from it, every one by Thomas Hardy.

How hard they are

74 easy, 106 medium and 54 hard, graded by the model described in our guide to solving cryptograms.

They average 72.5 letters over 19.1 distinct ones, with 4.1 letters appearing exactly once.

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