Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 30
The first of two cryptograms from chapter 30 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.
"Rqzhazesejeszpnxedzzbjbsyubsnzezsnpzzrybsne.Nxkzqycbzkzpnxiizbzasyezznzpsnzpz?"
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length76 letters, 18 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 30 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Colonel Fitzwilliam entered into conversation directly, with the readiness and ease of a well-bred man, and talked very pleasantly; but his cousin, after having addressed a slight observation on the house and garden to Mrs. Collins, sat for some time without speaking to anybody. At length, however, his civility was so far awakened as to inquire of Elizabeth after the health of her family. She answered him in the usual way; and, after a moment's pause, added, -
The sentence you are solving goes here.
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the hard one from chapter 30.
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 29hard, 65 letters
- Chapter 29hard, 65 letters
- Chapter 30hard, 66 letters
- Chapter 31medium, 96 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 46medium, 98 letters
- Chapter 29medium, 64 letters
- Chapter 43medium, 84 letters
- Chapter 51easy, 78 letters
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