Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 53
The second of six cryptograms from chapter 53 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.
Nrqicrgywympoknmi,okrokpuyqpxrcymp;jpurzxplpxkrccxppokpcpxxywknq.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length62 letters, 17 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 53 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Miss Bennet had not been able to hear of his coming without changing colour. It was many months since she had mentioned his name to Elizabeth; but now, as soon as they were alone together, she said, -
The sentence you are solving goes here.
Elizabeth did not know what to make of it. Had she not seen him in Derbyshire, she might have supposed him capable of coming there with no other view than what was acknowledged; but she still thought him partial to Jane, and she wavered as to the greater probability of his coming there with his friend's permission, or being bold enough to come without it.
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 52hard, 75 letters
- Chapter 53easy, 80 letters
- Chapter 53medium, 54 letters
- Chapter 53medium, 79 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 42easy, 92 letters
- Chapter 22easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 76 letters
- Chapter 51easy, 65 letters
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