Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 16
The sixth 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.
Mx,lhqix!XmzmcilbukuKkrvqlthiltfqnlnmbixlthfnlmcroalkbd!
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyhard
- Length53 letters, 19 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 16 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. The sentence itself is on the answer page.
The paragraphs next to it are cryptograms here in their own right, so they are left out too: the easy one from chapter 16, the medium one from chapter 16.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
Want the answer?
Have a proper go at it first. The solution is on a page of its own, so you won’t run into it by accident.
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 16easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 88 letters
- Chapter 16medium, 73 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 98 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 4hard, 63 letters
- Chapter 11hard, 75 letters
- Chapter 8hard, 55 letters
- Chapter 5hard, 61 letters
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