Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 16
The fourth of six cryptograms from chapter 16 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.
Lmxbnxjxukvgfvxuynypnkrnu,xgyLkxwrnumxrzmxbnziknplknzzridngkwirlgligiamlk,xgypimlk,piiaunnew.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length89 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 16 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"Good heavens!" cried Elizabeth; "but how could that be? How could his will be disregarded? Why did not you seek legal redress?"
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"This is quite shocking! He deserves to be publicly disgraced."
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 16easy, 76 letters
- Chapter 16medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 16hard, 50 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 41easy, 83 letters
- Chapter 38easy, 62 letters
- Chapter 46easy, 84 letters
- Chapter 33easy, 79 letters
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