Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 15
The first of nine cryptograms from chapter 15 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.
Cioxaelraeacagverbgvxowciwvxerauaxozofouwjurjwcoxcgmajjnozacizgvxof.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length67 letters, 18 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 15 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"One night during my accustomed visit to the neighbouring wood where I collected my own food and brought home firing for my protectors, I found on the ground a leathern portmanteau containing several articles of dress and some books. I eagerly seized the prize and returned with it to my hovel. Fortunately the books were written in the language, the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch's Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter. The possession of these treasures gave me extreme delight; I now continually studied and exercised my mind upon these histories, whilst my friends were employed in their ordinary occupations.
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 15.
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 13medium, 66 letters
- Chapter 14medium, 79 letters
- Chapter 15easy, 77 letters
- Chapter 15hard, 67 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 2medium, 70 letters
- Chapter 4medium, 89 letters
- Chapter 15medium, 72 letters
- Chapter 6medium, 61 letters
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