Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 20
The third of eleven cryptograms from chapter 20 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.
Whtkudpwhvsuftksue,Wrutejsruoeutgwhyzkpbjzze,tfwkfzpuzhuuhjutlzveujszzcuhwsfzksxb.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length79 letters, 21 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 20 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Several hours passed, and I remained near my window gazing on the sea; it was almost motionless, for the winds were hushed, and all nature reposed under the eye of the quiet moon. A few fishing vessels alone specked the water, and now and then the gentle breeze wafted the sound of voices as the fishermen called to one another. I felt the silence, although I was hardly conscious of its extreme profundity, until my ear was suddenly arrested by the paddling of oars near the shore, and a person landed close to my house.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the easy one from chapter 20.
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 20hard, 68 letters
- Chapter 20medium, 72 letters
- Chapter 20easy, 94 letters
- Chapter 20medium, 87 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 14medium, 79 letters
- Chapter 1medium, 69 letters
- Chapter 24medium, 75 letters
- Chapter 24medium, 53 letters
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