[HN Gopher] Cain's Jawbone: Puzzle solved for just third time in...
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Cain's Jawbone: Puzzle solved for just third time in almost 100
years (2020)
 
Author : mmettler
Score  : 7 points
Date   : 2022-01-17 22:25 UTC (34 minutes ago)
 
web link (www.theguardian.com)
w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
 
| gnabgib wrote:
| "The first time I opened the box, I swiftly concluded that it was
| way out of my league, and the only way I'd even have a shot at it
| was if I were for some bizarre reason trapped in my own home for
| months on end, with nowhere to go and no one to see.
| Unfortunately, the universe heard me,"
| 
| Finally it's working for someone!
 
| dang wrote:
| Past related posts:
| 
|  _Beastly Clues: T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist
| Crossword_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29911071 - Jan
| 2022 (3 comments)
| 
|  _Literary puzzle solved for just third time in almost 100 years_
| - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/literary-puzzl...
| (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25045947 - Nov 2020,
| but no comments there)
| 
| Edit: maybe we'll switch to that latter article from
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain%27s_Jawbone. Wikipedia pages
| are fine when the topic is unpredictable (like this one!) and
| there isn't a good third-party article available (https://hn.algo
| lia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
 
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