Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 22
The first of two cryptograms from chapter 22 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.
Lmqgmxbqrnpobwodfmxalgqaqsaxsqabwxyqauxwqvxdlmqxiinfoxd.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length55 letters, 19 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 22 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
As he was to begin his journey too early on the morrow to see any of the family, the ceremony of leave-taking was performed when the ladies moved for the night; and Mrs. Bennet, with great politeness and cordiality, said how happy they should be to see him at Longbourn again, whenever his other engagements might allow him to visit them.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
Want the answer?
Have a proper go at it first. The solution is on a page of its own, so you won’t run into it by accident.
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 21easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 21medium, 85 letters
- Chapter 22easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 23medium, 72 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 43hard, 59 letters
- Chapter 52hard, 75 letters
- Chapter 58hard, 59 letters
- Chapter 43hard, 62 letters
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