Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 7
The first of six cryptograms from chapter 7 of Pride and Prejudice. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
"Bnkvrqbhpszgyszjbhhv,Bkdjfqmazfmuzyhlyvjjzgjbuhzmnbf."
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length51 letters, 19 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 7 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"I am astonished, my dear," said Mrs. Bennet, "that you should be so ready to think your own children silly. If I wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own, however."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"Yes; but as it happens, they are all of them very clever."
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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Have a proper go at it first. The solution is on a page of its own, so you won’t run into it by accident.
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 3hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 9hard, 70 letters
- Chapter 27hard, 59 letters
- Chapter 37hard, 73 letters
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