Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 7
Cryptogram 7 of 13 from chapter 7 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.
Ysmogyngyozqcylochbvszieocubeblmfsxbemobkcgfvogie.Obpclmobqzfebfbf!
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyhard
- Length65 letters, 20 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 7 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
I quitted my seat, and walked on, although the darkness and storm increased every minute, and the thunder burst with a terrific crash over my head. It was echoed from Salêve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash. The storm, as is often the case in Switzerland, appeared at once in various parts of the heavens. The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copêt. Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the Môle, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake.
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 7.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
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