Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 16
The eleventh of eleven cryptograms from chapter 16 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
Kzadiehoydtopeobgihpqdrzythabjznohshaygikboqaitzwpbjbobhe.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyhard
- Length57 letters, 19 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 16 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"The sleeper stirred; a thrill of terror ran through me. Should she indeed awake, and see me, and curse me, and denounce the murderer? Thus would she assuredly act if her darkened eyes opened and she beheld me. The thought was madness; it stirred the fiend within me - not I, but she, shall suffer; the murder I have committed because I am for ever robbed of all that she could give me, she shall atone. The crime had its source in her; be hers the punishment! Thanks to the lessons of Felix and the sanguinary laws of man, I had learned now to work mischief. I bent over her and placed the portrait securely in one of the folds of her dress. She moved again, and I fled.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
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.
- Chapter 16hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 16medium, 68 letters
- Chapter 17medium, 72 letters
- Chapter 17easy, 97 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 24hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 71 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 68 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 63 letters
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