Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 22
The second of ten cryptograms from chapter 22 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.
Nfaxwmatthujahoqwzjzvnajatvghy,pxvvghnuvuxvgnjqzuvuhwnhshmvghpxumhjatybybivhunaxieah.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length83 letters, 21 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 22 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.
Upon this occasion my father said, with an expression of unbounded wonder, "My dearest Victor, what infatuation is this? My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an assertion again."
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the easy one from chapter 22.
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 21easy, 81 letters
- Chapter 22easy, 81 letters
- Chapter 22easy, 64 letters
- Chapter 22easy, 100 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 9medium, 77 letters
- Chapter 8medium, 95 letters
- Chapter 10medium, 99 letters
- Chapter 24medium, 82 letters
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