My plan is to have a read through of the cards, then a read through and make some notes, then to focus more specifically on the areas suggested by the initial read throughs. Both editions, when published, were accompanied by a competition which offered a cash prize to the first reader to solve the puzzle. Cain's Jawbone has been described as "one of the hardest and most beguiling word puzzles ever published." [1] [2] Title [ edit ] Although it is extremely difficult,” he says, “it is a very well designed puzzle that continually unfolds. As you make each new breakthrough, then your next task becomes clear to you.” In a blog about Untitled Mystery, Finnemore said: “The picture side puzzles allow me to do two things: firstly, compensate for the arrival of the internet since 1934. You may now be able to Google an obscure Walt Whitman quotation, but you can’t Google ‘How on earth is this picture of a tree a puzzle?’ Cain’s Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers ‘the world’s most difficult literary puzzle’. Photograph: Unbound

At a certain point, I convinced myself that someone called Henry, who gets the most mentions, was in fact a dog. At others, it seemed that the sexuality of the characters was adventurously omnivorous. But essentially I hadn’t a clue. While she is reading, enter and exit respectively from her compartment: a man who is smoking a pipe, a couple of children, and Oscar Mills.

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Speculation from Marie) Ephphatha is what Jesus said to heal the Deaf man, and epea pteroenta was said by Homer, who is traditionally thought to have been blind. Is he saying that he’s not one of those people who makes up for their blindness with good hearing, maybe? (This could be to clue us in that even though Latin is used and bad eyesight is mentioned, this is not Oscar.). You would

Cain's Jawbone is a murder mystery puzzle written by Edward Powys Mathers under the pseudonym " Torquemada". The puzzle was first published in 1934 as part of The Torquemada Puzzle Book. In 2019, crowdfunding publisher Unbound published a new stand-alone edition of the puzzle in collaboration with the charity The Laurence Sterne Trust. Little is known about the methods Mathers used to construct his puzzles. An essay written by his widow and published in a 1942 collection of Torquemada puzzles notes that he could compose a fairly simple (by his standards) crossword in about two hours, but doesn’t go into much detail about how he did it. According to Millington’s 1977 book Crosswords, Their History and Their Cult, Mathers routinely collaborated with his wife to construct puzzles; once he had decided on a puzzle’s theme and made a list of words he wanted to use, Rosemond Crowdy Mathers would often make the diagram. So, we spent a day or two going through the text and piecing it together. She’d written it, so she usually knew what came after what, and I could search for it and find the missing piece and put it in place. It was like a big word jigsaw.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,” Finnemore said. While waiting for May and interacting with her, he thinks about his acquaintances (Alexander, Barbara, Catherine). For a long time, Finnemore thought he’d never find a coherent narrative because there was so much “poetic word association nonsense” to get through. It does tell a story. It’s funny in places as well – there are some properly good jokes in it. John Finnemore, comic, writer and puzzle solver