Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 20
The fourth of four cryptograms from chapter 20 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.
XfkxbfaukdossfygdWvksykiefyqkodzkixbgwendzgeugqfekryfgnwezbwegnwkeskyngbmwer.EkjkvpzgenfbbaugnWdossfy!
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length100 letters, 22 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 20 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Charlotte's reply was spared by the entrance of Jane and Elizabeth.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
Her daughters listened in silence to this effusion, sensible that any attempt to reason with or soothe her would only increase the irritation. She talked on, therefore, without interruption from any of them till they were joined by Mr. Collins, who entered with an air more stately than usual, and on perceiving whom, she said to the girls, -
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 20easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 20medium, 52 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 96 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 100 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 51easy, 78 letters
- Chapter 7easy, 84 letters
- Chapter 55easy, 98 letters
- Chapter 53easy, 98 letters
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