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Can you solve it? The knotty problem of Paddington in Peru

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Summary
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48% Informative

In the film Paddington in Peru , the plot revolves around a string bracelet that is said to contain mystical secrets.

The bracelet is supposed to be a khipu’, which was the Incan way of recording numbers.

The Incans used khipus to record dates, taxes and measurements, among other things.

Knowledge of how khipsus represented numbers was lost after the Spanish conquest.

Today ’s puzzle asks you to repeat his decipherment using an image of the same khipsu he used, which is now in the American Museum of Natural History .

VR Score

40

Informative language

33

Neutral language

15

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

32

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

long-living

Source diversity

1