#cainsjawbone day 1083 apparently!!

Well, time flies.

I picked this cryptic puzzle book up over 3 years ago. And yesterday I think I have my first attempt at the page order and list of narrators.

If you would have told me that it would take this long to solve, I’m not sure I would have started!

Of course, there were many months of inactivity. I would guess actual time spent in decipher mode would be somewhere around 6-9 months.

Anyone else part way through this?

Abbandonati i #social algoritmici, dopo aver avuto una #diagnosi che mi vede affetto da #escapismo, ritorno agli usi ore internet, #scrittura e progetti.
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#elzevirista #edwardpowysmathers #CainsJawbone

My Winter reading project just arrived  

I cannot wait to start, though the original Cain's Jawbone remains unsolved by me  

#CainsJawbone #JohnFinnemore #TRFM #PuzzleBook #Unbound

Today I learned #JohnFinnemore and #JohnMitchinson are scheduled for a #CainsJawbone discussion and book signing for _The Researcher's First Murder_ on Charing Cross Road, in London. I offered my beloved long-time pal in #Islington a reimbursement for ticket if he attends and gets a book signed for me.
Strange to me that I encounter only one question about #crypticCrossword elements in the social media discussions for #CainsJawbone, the people in videos I watched and the "confirmed solvers" don't mention them, but a link to a guide to solving is in a 'pinned' selection of useful resources I've encountered numerous elements (the UK crosswords use more devices than the North American cryptics I have seen) and I am only 11 pages in.

So into #CainsJawbone, although only seven pages in. I can see the utility of a spreadsheet. I even dreamed I had a voice chat with a friend who began reading it earlier this month.

I love my #UK pen pals but I dearly wish at least one of them knew about this book years earlier and told me, and not left me to wade deep into a #Wodehouse novel to learn about #Torquemada.

Six Books You’ll (Probably) Never Be Able to Read

As headlines have been informing us recently, censorship is very much alive and well across the United States—but there’s a difference between a book you’re not allowed to read and one you simply can’t read. The subset of non-censored reading material out there that actively seems to dare readers to make any sense of it is deep and vast. From codices to puzzles to straight-up art projects, books that aren’t meant to be read (or are essentially impossible to read) present the bibliophile with a true conundrum: Just how hard should you have to work to read and enjoy a book?

Here, then, are six publications that you’re free to try to track down, but which have a seriously select group of readers nonetheless…

#Book #Books #Reading #Bookstodon #ONEPIECE #IlanManouach #FinnegansWake #JamesJoyce #TheVoynichManuscript #TheFutureLibrary
#CainsJawbone #EdwardPowysMathers

https://www.tor.com/2023/08/23/six-books-youll-probably-never-be-able-to-read/

Six Books You’ll (Probably) Never Be Able to Read

As headlines have been informing us recently, censorship is very much alive and well across the United States—but there’s a difference between a book you’re not allowed to read and one …

Tor.com

Referenced link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-cant-solve-this-famous-murder-mystery-puzzle1/
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-cant-solve-this-famous-murder-mystery-puzzle1/

Originally posted by Scientific American / @sciam: http://nitter.platypush.tech/kennaculture/status/1649438341245599745#m

RT by @sciam: My #oped #article in @SciAm asks if the murder mystery book #cainsjawbone can be solved with #AI. Thanks to @Unbounders and @Zindi, @rina_gill, and @AmyFlorida626 for trying to solve the case!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-cant-solve-this-famous-murder-mystery-puzzle1/
TY also to @sophiebushwick and @meghas!

AI Can’t Solve this Famous Murder Mystery Puzzle

The 1934 puzzle book  Cain’s Jawbone  stumped all but a handful of humans. Then AI took the case

Scientific American

#cainsjawbone day 2

Day 1 was a daunting. Nothing made sense and the first dozen pages were just, well, strange.

However, I’ve done some reading and have a plan of action and understand how to crack this now. Figure out the narrators, cluster, solve the puzzles and then the stories should start to make some sense.

Maybe.

Learning more and more each day and for this week I’ll just read and take notes.