Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 33
The first of three cryptograms from chapter 33 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.
Uyh,qgxlyiqfj,hceacezgjyigzgxbuyhuytqgft-ngulefeunngdgungurg?
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length57 letters, 19 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 33 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"He likes to have his own way very well," replied Colonel Fitzwilliam. "But so we all do. It is only that he has better means of having it than many others, because he is rich, and many others are poor. I speak feelingly. A younger son, you know, must be inured to self-denial and dependence."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"These are home questions - and perhaps I cannot say that I have experienced many hardships of that nature. But in matters of greater weight, I may suffer from the want of money. Younger sons cannot marry where they like."
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 31hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 32hard, 79 letters
- Chapter 33easy, 79 letters
- Chapter 33hard, 62 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 58hard, 59 letters
- Chapter 46hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 7hard, 51 letters
- Chapter 51hard, 59 letters
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