Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 21
The first of ten cryptograms from chapter 21 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.
Fbjgiunyjtfbajbrontusgiufaajzbgjrgiuropiuntubifwobdxnjzdiggiuxjscobgjiunijzpu;ogyfpbjgajms.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length89 letters, 20 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 21 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
A woman deposed that she lived near the beach and was standing at the door of her cottage, waiting for the return of the fishermen, about an hour before she heard of the discovery of the body, when she saw a boat with only one man in it push off from that part of the shore where the corpse was afterwards found.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
Several other men were examined concerning my landing, and they agreed that, with the strong north wind that had arisen during the night, it was very probable that I had beaten about for many hours and had been obliged to return nearly to the same spot from which I had departed. Besides, they observed that it appeared that I had brought the body from another place, and it was likely that as I did not appear to know the shore, I might have put into the harbour ignorant of the distance of the town of - - from the place where I had deposited the corpse.
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 20easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 20medium, 83 letters
- Chapter 21medium, 84 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 100 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 18medium, 87 letters
- Chapter 17medium, 72 letters
- Chapter 24medium, 62 letters
- Chapter 8medium, 77 letters
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