Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 11
The fifth of ten cryptograms from chapter 11 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.
NscgpbgNlehwzlcgeqsynslblevanovvcuvhz,uwljwnrfagyhvxnlbwlqkqnsxnleqrhgbidqns.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyhard
- Length75 letters, 24 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 11 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.
"It was morning when I awoke, and my first care was to visit the fire. I uncovered it, and a gentle breeze quickly fanned it into a flame. I observed this also and contrived a fan of branches, which roused the embers when they were nearly extinguished. When night came again I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well as heat and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in my food, for I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees. I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers. I found that the berries were spoiled by this operation, and the nuts and roots much improved.
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the easy one from chapter 11.
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 11medium, 62 letters
- Chapter 11easy, 79 letters
- Chapter 11medium, 65 letters
- Chapter 11hard, 59 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 10hard, 60 letters
- Chapter 17hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 15hard, 67 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 60 letters
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