Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 16
The fourth of eleven cryptograms from chapter 16 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.
Cjklhetksfhgeogqjgjhwfvkldkikhgwowclghjfxikl;pxffhwk,vqfksqissklrclks,ktkjodhxifjowxlfpkkuxqeeovhjjcpek.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyeasy
- Length100 letters, 20 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 16 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"As soon as I was convinced that no assistance could save any part of the habitation, I quitted the scene and sought for refuge in the woods.
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 16.
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 16hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 83 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 88 letters
- Chapter 16hard, 53 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 9easy, 97 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 23easy, 93 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 98 letters
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