The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane's episode of the American Civil War.

202 cryptograms drawn from it, every one by Stephen Crane.

How hard they are

30 easy, 90 medium and 82 hard, graded by the model described in our guide to solving cryptograms.

They average 69.1 letters over 19 distinct ones, with 4.1 letters appearing exactly once.

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