Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 60
The fourth of five cryptograms from chapter 60 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.
Xmnjzsbvmaidbfmrzbpzpsbhzcdianh.Gbgzhhcmjmnrsidbfvjqbkbjxsvx.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length59 letters, 19 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 60 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
From an unwillingness to confess how much her intimacy with Mr. Darcy had been overrated, Elizabeth had never yet answered Mrs. Gardiner's long letter; but now, having that to communicate which she knew would be most welcome, she was almost ashamed to find that her uncle and aunt had already lost three days of happiness, and immediately wrote as follows: -
The sentence you are solving goes here.
Mr. Darcy's letter to Lady Catherine was in a different style, and still different from either was what Mr. Bennet sent to Mr. Collins, in return for his last.
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 60medium, 93 letters
- Chapter 60easy, 77 letters
- Chapter 60easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 61medium, 67 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 43medium, 84 letters
- Chapter 31medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 43medium, 80 letters
- Chapter 11medium, 87 letters
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