Cryptogram from Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 1
The fifth 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.
MwhgpbbhccyqmnaebgMvbnjoyghwehmd-hcctjnnebtmntbemgxnebqmdbochwb.Ye!
- Written byLewis Carroll
- Taken fromThrough the Looking-Glass
- Difficultyeasy
- Length64 letters, 18 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.
But this is taking us away from Alice's speech to the kitten. "Let's pretend that you're the Red Queen, Kitty! Do you know, I think if you sat up and folded your arms, you'd look exactly like her. Now do try, there's a dear!" And Alice got the Red Queen off the table, and set it up before the kitten as a model for it to imitate: however, the thing didn't succeed, principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldn't fold its arms properly. So, to punish it, she held it up to the Looking-glass, that it might see how sulky it was - "and if you're not good directly," she added, "I'll put you through into Looking-glass House. How would you like that?"
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 1.
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.
- Chapter 7easy, 63 letters
- Chapter 12easy, 73 letters
- Chapter 3medium, 91 letters
- Chapter 2easy, 68 letters
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