[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)
        
 (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...).
        
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