Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 16
The sixth of six cryptograms from chapter 16 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.
Mznkdkeurgpkrorndedmvzrddkllnddxnonceanwqmznuemmno.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length50 letters, 18 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 16 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"Probably not; but Mr. Darcy can please where he chooses. He does not want abilities. He can be a conversible companion if he thinks it worth his while. Among those who are at all his equals in consequence, he is a very different man from what he is to the less prosperous. His pride never deserts him; but with the rich he is liberal-minded, just, sincere, rational, honourable, and, perhaps, agreeable, - allowing something for fortune and figure."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"I know very well, madam," said he, "that when persons sit down to a card table they must take their chance of these things, - and happily I am not in such circumstances as to make five shillings any object. There are, undoubtedly, many who could not say the same; but, thanks to Lady Catherine de Bourgh, I am removed far beyond the necessity of regarding little matters."
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 16easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 17medium, 55 letters
- Chapter 17hard, 53 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 29hard, 65 letters
- Chapter 55hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 34hard, 54 letters
- Chapter 41hard, 66 letters
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