Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 24
Cryptogram 31 of 35 from chapter 24 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.
Yputbsmdytarqpykaaynakasmnaktswasbsmdubqqrcskysb.Hmkbspfdyxrautqrnduqrqxrhrbrukakarxrubrtkubyxug.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length95 letters, 19 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 24 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
I was at first touched by the expressions of his misery; yet, when I called to mind what Frankenstein had said of his powers of eloquence and persuasion, and when I again cast my eyes on the lifeless form of my friend, indignation was rekindled within me. "Wretch!" I said. "It is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made. You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall. Hypocritical fiend! If he whom you mourn still lived, still would he be the object, again would he become the prey, of your accursed vengeance. It is not pity that you feel; you lament only because the victim of your malignity is withdrawn from your power."
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 hard one from chapter 24.
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 24medium, 66 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 60 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 63 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 24medium, 69 letters
- Chapter 15medium, 55 letters
- Chapter 16medium, 73 letters
- Chapter 13medium, 66 letters
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