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- Ok, someone, anyone, explain?by sans_souse
- Have there ever been sections of this that the community would consider "solved"? If not, these seem less like logic puzzles and more like complete nonsense...by gfaure
- From the April 3, 1999 entry at http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/update.html :
This week sucked, so nothing really got updated, but I took a cue from one of the previous emails and decided to blow off about 3,000 important things I should have been doing and read Magus (link to Amazon product page) instead.
I have my complaints about Amazon, but you know what I respect the hell out of them for: that 27-year-old web link still works.
by CamperBob2 - Some more info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Daily_Wildcatby sans_souse
- It looks a lot like what one of my schizophrenic relatives does
- I just want to be the first to make this connection to "Digger" 2026 starring Tom Cruise and no I'm not joking I'm just really deep in this rabbit holeby sans_souse
- https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4hq4o1...
Seems likely that Robert Truman Hungerford has been placing these ads himself for the last 45 years, as a kind of solitary practice. He is apparently now giving hints to their interpretation (http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/texts/25-dec7.html): "Good starting point: Historically, what sort of compass is in the picture?"
by linehedonist - So... someone has been posting cryptic adverts annually from 1981 through 2026, which together constitute logic puzzles and obscure references.
The main thing I think is quite cool, besides the sheer persistence, is that anyone noticed and there's a community following this. Everyone has stuff going on in their lives, this seems so obscure that you'd almost expect people to shrug and ignore.
by rm445