Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 56
The first of nine cryptograms from chapter 56 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.
Wghgtfuhuvhfhstuw;lzyzhcwghfwghblffclkh,ztfwghrcnhfotdwghuhfnlzwvgtsfhbhyhycw,vhfhdlecrclfwtwghe.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length93 letters, 19 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 56 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
They were of course all intending to be surprised: but their astonishment was beyond their expectation; and on the part of Mrs. Bennet and Kitty, though she was perfectly unknown to them, even inferior to what Elizabeth felt.
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.
- Chapter 55easy, 98 letters
- Chapter 55easy, 62 letters
- Chapter 56easy, 76 letters
- Chapter 56hard, 62 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 29easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 59easy, 90 letters
- Chapter 58easy, 88 letters
- Chapter 20easy, 89 letters
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