Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 16
The ninth 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.
Zbhtxjqopgkxzb,Zinuqoqaqmbxtwxamqoxboiqbeqxbsqanxttjxbczbo.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyhard
- Length57 letters, 20 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 sentence you are solving goes here.
"For some weeks I led a miserable life in the woods, endeavouring to cure the wound which I had received. The ball had entered my shoulder, and I knew not whether it had remained there or passed through; at any rate I had no means of extracting it. My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction. My daily vows rose for revenge - a deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured.
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the easy 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 16medium, 73 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 98 letters
- Chapter 16medium, 68 letters
- Chapter 16hard, 57 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 2hard, 54 letters
- Chapter 2hard, 56 letters
- Chapter 20hard, 68 letters
- Chapter 11hard, 59 letters
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