Cryptogram from Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 8
The second of five cryptograms from chapter 8 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.
"U'netyeukhbd'zvrbgcekndicoyeiguivuryukurm,"fcvzvrgdyvkgbfeh,effcvsefcvwourmcundotybncuftutgcgdnqwv.
- Written byLewis Carroll
- Taken fromThrough the Looking-Glass
- Difficultyeasy
- Length93 letters, 21 unique
Where it comes from
Lewis Carroll wrote it in chapter 8 of Through the Looking-Glass. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
The Knight looked very much surprised, and a little offended at the remark. "What makes you say that?" he asked, as he scrambled back into the saddle, keeping hold of Alice's hair with one hand, to save himself from falling over on the other side.
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.
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
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- Chapter 2easy, 68 letters
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- Chapter 12easy, 73 letters
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