call for MetaFilter memberJannaKpresented the community witha puzzlethat had been troubling her family for nearly 20 year . Her grandma died in 1996 from Cancer the Crab and in her last twenty-four hour period she scrawl down a seemingly non - sensical bowed stringed instrument of characters on forefinger cards . Nobody get it on what it all have in mind . Then the Metafilter community solved the teaser in 14 minutes .
According to the posting , JannaK ’s nanna left at least 20 of the cards behind but neither JannaK nor her cousins could solve what they assumed were codes . Her begetter discovered one of the cards consist around recently , and so JannaK put it to the community . Holy moly , would n’t you get it on it ? The code turned out to be last prayer of a dying cleaning woman . Each letter stood for the first varsity letter of the word in a prayer or subject matter to God .
The back of the board was the easiest to decypher , revealing the pattern .
Asharperpitt mention , this is almost certainlythe Lord ’s Prayer :
Our Father who art in Heaven , sacred be thy name … etc etc etc
Having recognise the pattern and the prayer - alike view , community member set off piecing together the front side of the circuit board bit by bit . It all appear to be a series of thank yous and requests to god ; things like “ Please see that we are all felicitous and safe in our lives and body of work ” and “ thank you Almighty God for heed to my entreaty and answer them . ” You ’ve really get down toread the whole threadto view the meanings — er , possible substance — of the code on the carte unfurl .
While the analysis of the code on the back of the power notice seems almost certainly correct , we ’ll never know for sure whether all of the hypothesis for the front are right . But what a touching account . And , holy crap , the internet is capable of some glorious matter .
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