Cryptogram from Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 1
The first 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.
Grtxqeruokwdtvxker,xqkxxqtoqextcexxtrqkmqkmrgxqeruxgmgoexqex:-exokwxqtlnkdccexxtr'wpkynxtrxevtni.
- Written byLewis Carroll
- Taken fromThrough the Looking-Glass
- Difficultyeasy
- Length92 letters, 19 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.
The way Dinah washed her children's faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr - no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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