Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 55
The first of four cryptograms from chapter 55 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.
"Tbyzvzdz,ygibpz,Aselmmbkozejmbgbx,"mbbjvzdbxmbrmvzdbby.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length50 letters, 19 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 55 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"Nothing, child, nothing. I did not wink at you." She then sat still five minutes longer; but unable to waste such a precious occasion, she suddenly got up, and saying to Kitty, -
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"Lizzy, my dear, I want to speak with you."
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 54easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 54medium, 60 letters
- Chapter 55hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 55easy, 98 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 31hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 25hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 58hard, 56 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 60 letters
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