Moby-Dick

Herman Melville's whale, and everything else.

346 cryptograms drawn from it, every one by Herman Melville.

How hard they are

94 easy, 149 medium and 103 hard, graded by the model described in our guide to solving cryptograms.

They average 73.3 letters over 19 distinct ones, with 4 letters appearing exactly once.

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