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Cain's Jawbone: The World's Most Fiendishly Difficult Puzzle Game: Boxed Card Edition

by Edward Powys Mathers

A murder mystery arranged as a page-order puzzle

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A murder mystery arranged as a page-order puzzle

First published in 1934, Edward Powys Mathers’s puzzle-novel turns its 100 pages into the central challenge: they appear in a haphazard order, and solving the mystery means using logic and close reading to arrange them correctly. The publisher’s description identifies six murder victims and their killers as the solution the correct sequence reveals. That makes the act of reconstructing the book part of engaging with its murder-mystery premise, rather than a separate puzzle alongside it. The source emphasizes that the challenge is exceptionally difficult, so this is a book built around sustained problem-solving as well as mystery.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Puzzle enthusiasts who enjoy logic and close-reading challenges
  • Murder-mystery readers interested in an unusual, participatory format

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Murder mysteryLogic and deductionReading and interpretation

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Book overview

The most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written, presented here as cards for you to shuffle and sort into the only correct order, revealing the solution!

Six murders. Millions of possible combinations . . . all in one box . . .

Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery?

In 1934, the Observer's cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written.

Presented here as cards for you to shuffle and--through logic--sort into the only correct order, this boxed novel is the perfect gift for the bravest puzzlers, ready for you to rearrange and solve.

Only three puzzlers have ever solved the mystery of Cain's Jawbone: do you have what it takes to join their ranks?

Please note: this puzzle is extremely difficult and not for the faint-hearted.

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