Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 11
The fifth of six cryptograms from chapter 11 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.
Inssmtcujfjnjctjct,hdmlcujfmjxnjcmcbtjxmtc,fnfmptvblt,Mnhj,ujfMsuzodubbdtlhdtjtptvMxuj.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length82 letters, 18 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 11 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"Miss Bingley," said he, "has given me credit for more than can be. The wisest and best of men, - nay, the wisest and best of their actions, - may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"Perhaps that is not possible for anyone. But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule."
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 11hard, 64 letters
- Chapter 11easy, 85 letters
- Chapter 11hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 13hard, 89 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 19easy, 72 letters
- Chapter 54easy, 57 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 96 letters
- Chapter 54easy, 89 letters
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