Showing posts with label john renie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label john renie. Show all posts

Sep 16, 2017

Here lies John Renie

John Renie knew he was dying (who doesn't), definitely had a sense of humor ... and was probably a puzzle fanatic.

"The gravestone of John Renie, a 19th-century house painter, at St. Mary’s Priory Church in Monmouth, Wales, is a 285-letter acrostic puzzle — from the central H the sentence “Here lies John Renie” can be traced out (in king’s moves) in 45,760 different ways. Renie probably carved it himself; according to cleric Lionel Fanthorpe, he hoped it would occupy the devil while he escaped to heaven."


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