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Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?

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[–] hydrospanner 2 points 11 months ago

I had an elementary school teacher who would do these puzzles with our small class.

It was much better than your situation though: he would already know the solution and basically we took turns asking him yes or no questions until we figured it out.