[HN Gopher] Cain's Jawbone: Puzzle solved for just third time in... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com) (TXT) 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...). ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-17 23:00 UTC)