One was born to a life of prosperity and ease, the other to a world of hardship and struggle. Unfortunately, the universe heard me'.On April 15, 1906, two baby boys entered the world. Finnemore said 'The first time I had a look at it I quickly thought 'Oh this is just way beyond me.' 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. The competition will run for one year from the date of publication.' In November 2020 it was announced that comedian and crossword compiler John Finnemore had correctly solved the puzzle, doing so over a period of six months during the COVID-19 lockdown. The publishers of the 2019 edition ran the competition a second time, saying 'The prize of £1,000 (roughly how much £15 was worth in 1934) will be given to the first reader to provide the names of the murderers and the murdered, the correct order of the pages and a short explanation of how the solution was obtained. Kennedy, solved the puzzle in 1935 and won £25 each. When the puzzle was first published in 1934, a prize of £15 was offered 'to the first reader who could re-order the pages and provide an account of the 6 persons murdered in Cain's Jawbone and the full names of their murderers.' Two people, Mr S. The solution to the puzzle has never been made public. The pages can be arranged in 9.33 ×10 157 ( factorial of 100) possible combinations, but there is only one correct order. The story's text includes a large number of quotations, references, puns, Spoonerisms and other word games. To solve the puzzle, the reader must determine the correct order of the pages and also the names of the murderers and victims within the story. The second edition is a boxed set of page-cards. The first edition is part of a hardback book. The puzzle consists of a 100-page prose narrative with its pages arranged in the wrong order. The phrase Cain's Jawbone refers to the Biblical stories of Cain and Abel and Samson. Cain's Jawbone has been described as 'one of the hardest and most beguiling word puzzles ever published.' Title Both editions, when published, were accompanied by a competition which offered a cash prize to the first reader to solve the puzzle. Crowdfunding publisher Unbound published a new stand-alone edition of the puzzle in 2019 in collaboration with the charity The Laurence Sterne Trust.

The puzzle was first published in 1934 as part of The Torquemada Puzzle Book. Cain's Jawbone is a murder mystery puzzle written by Edward Powys Mathers under the pseudonym ' Torquemada'.

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