Cryptogram from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 2
The third of three cryptograms from chapter 2 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
Ydrvvdcgarfbv-czcpvcaarca,zhlqxhi,irvbhb,elkbdhxfkladzgahixbyra!
- Written byLewis Carroll
- Taken fromAlice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Difficultymedium
- Length59 letters, 18 unique
Where it comes from
Lewis Carroll wrote it in chapter 2 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"We indeed!" cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of his tail. "As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always hated cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't let me hear the name again!"
The sentence you are solving goes here.
So she called softly after it, "Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't like them!" When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, "Let us get to the shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs."
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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