Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 29
The second of ten cryptograms from chapter 29 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.
Gqnvtyeyigxzrnvszuztrcnjvcnpqmeczizunwrnvuktncmzxgxxvjzugnucncmzuzxc-cmzuzgxpnnkkexgnpwnueprcmgpfsnuz.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length100 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 29 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
When the ladies were separating for the toilette, he said to Elizabeth, -
The sentence you are solving goes here.
While they were dressing, he came two or three times to their different doors, to recommend their being quick, as Lady Catherine very much objected to be kept waiting for her dinner. Such formidable accounts of her Ladyship, and her manner of living, quite frightened Maria Lucas, who had been little used to company; and she looked forward to her introduction at Rosings with as much apprehension as her father had done to his presentation at St. James's.
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 27hard, 59 letters
- Chapter 29hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 29hard, 68 letters
- Chapter 29hard, 57 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 56easy, 93 letters
- Chapter 59easy, 90 letters
- Chapter 58easy, 88 letters
- Chapter 20easy, 89 letters
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