Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 24
The first of six cryptograms from chapter 24 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.
Fcyzjxvdcfxwjfdcjqdvcvojvqtjyq,yxmxvdcfxwdvqjoqvyuccfgefdc.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length57 letters, 16 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 24 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Elizabeth looked at her sister with incredulous solicitude, but said nothing.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
With a stronger voice she soon added, "I have this comfort immediately, that it has not been more than an error of fancy on my side, and that it has done no harm to anyone but myself."
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 23medium, 72 letters
- Chapter 23hard, 63 letters
- Chapter 24easy, 73 letters
- Chapter 24medium, 71 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 19medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 37medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 18medium, 64 letters
- Chapter 50medium, 54 letters
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