Cryptogram from Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 1
The fourth of six cryptograms from chapter 1 of Through the Looking-Glass. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
Bqsufayluhkqjdfdkqouhk!Vokdlkfjkqiyquyslktfkkfundbysfuhqslxxqcyeqodkfhy.
- Written byLewis Carroll
- Taken fromThrough the Looking-Glass
- Difficultyhard
- Length70 letters, 20 unique
Where it comes from
Lewis Carroll wrote it in chapter 1 of Through the Looking-Glass. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"Kitty, can you play chess? Now, don't smile, my dear, I'm asking it seriously. Because, when we were playing just now, you watched just as if you understood it: and when I said 'Check!' you purred! Well, it was a nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if it hadn't been for that nasty Knight, that came wiggling down among my pieces. Kitty, dear, let's pretend - " And here I wish I could tell you half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her favourite phrase "Let's pretend." She had had quite a long argument with her sister only the day before - all because Alice had begun with "Let's pretend we're kings and queens;" and her sister, who liked being very exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were only two of them, and Alice had been reduced at last to say, "Well, you can be one of them then, and I'll be all the rest." And once she had really frightened her old nurse by shouting suddenly in her ear, "Nurse! Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyaena, and you're a bone."
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the medium one from chapter 1.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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