Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: Back to a Puzzling Future

The clues for this puzzle are several weeks old. But it’s not too late to put them together.

Turning back the clock on the history of Kominers’s Conundrums.

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Just over a month ago, I revealed that our Conundrum was completely hidden, then urged solvers to chase clues inside the column’s text. But I didn’t reveal everything. Indeed, I’ve been secretly hiding more clues for a month – one in each of the past four Conundrums.

So let’s take a trip through time and revisit our code-breaking, coin-weighing, dinner party-saving, and chocolate bar-splitting Conundrums. If you find anything that looks unusual, it could be a clue.