Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 17
The second of six cryptograms from chapter 17 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.
Iya,dibqxoryq,hyagprxoqdxryztxbxmowprqtadzv;qxdxdexqrvor,owprxggdxhviTmvyagpztridowdyqxrvowvxztrtxmdx?
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyeasy
- Length97 letters, 18 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 17 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.
A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded -
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the medium one from chapter 17.
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 16hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 17medium, 72 letters
- Chapter 17hard, 63 letters
- Chapter 17easy, 75 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 21easy, 95 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 8easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 7easy, 96 letters
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