Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 18
The fifth of six cryptograms from chapter 18 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.
"Ah-Lstaahwwterhqphhrilatptee-dhhg;gvuztyliteftviqjeehqihgzwulaczeiz."
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length64 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 18 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.
"The present always occupies you in such scenes - does it?" said he, with a look of doubt.
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the easy one from chapter 18.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
Want the answer?
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 18medium, 58 letters
- Chapter 18easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 18easy, 97 letters
- Chapter 19easy, 72 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 19medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 37medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 50medium, 54 letters
- Chapter 34medium, 98 letters
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