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comment by Kaius
Kaius  ·  3668 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tombstone puzzle

I can see

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8 6 5 A G E D 23

It goes all over the place...





mk  ·  3668 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes. You can follow the link to the solution. There's not much rhyme or reason to the method. What is odd, is that it is the tombstone of two wives of the same man. It seems perverse to not only use the same tombstone for each, but to scramble their epitaphs together in this way.

Kaius  ·  3668 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yea i followed the link and was about to start substituting common letters for e,i etc and see if it was a simple mask before i spotted the words in plain English... I can't see how it took 80 years to solve :)

Its a weird tombstone as it ties both women together in death and leaves no way for him to be included on the headstone. Strange considering he was more than likely the only link between them.