Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 34
The first of seven cryptograms from chapter 34 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.
Zyqyevwrnozrgnairemrazuaieozjazprzrkyaitokesyaonerjemrkr.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length56 letters, 19 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 34 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
As she pronounced these words, Mr. Darcy changed colour; but the emotion was short, and he listened without attempting to interrupt her while she continued, -
The sentence you are solving goes here.
She paused, and saw with no slight indignation that he was listening with an air which proved him wholly unmoved by any feeling of remorse. He even looked at her with a smile of affected incredulity.
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 33easy, 79 letters
- Chapter 33hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 34hard, 54 letters
- Chapter 34hard, 67 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 11hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 1hard, 76 letters
- Chapter 25hard, 68 letters
- Chapter 5hard, 51 letters
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