In 2010, Ryan North embedded an unsolved cryptoanagram in Dinosaur Comics #1663.
98 letters rearrange into a single sentence T-Rex would say. It has remained
unsolved for over 16 years .
12t10o8e7a6l6n6u5i5s5d5h5y3I3r3fbbwwkcmvg:,!!
The 98 characters as Ryan presented them in panel 6 — counts in front, singletons spelled out.
Ryan North's hints (from comics 1665, 1666, 4005, and TCAF 2012):
The first word is "I"
The final letter is "w" (so the sentence ends in w!!)
The punctuation :,!! appears in the solution, in that order
The longest word is 11 characters; the second-longest is 8 — and they're side by side
All words appear in Jadrian's Qwantz Corpus (the Dinosaur Comics vocabulary)
The letters are case-sensitive
It's natural-sounding, reasonably-grammatical dialogue T-Rex would say
It does not refer to anagrams, puzzles, or t-shirts
What T-Rex is saying is directly related to the content of comic #1663
Ryan said in person it would make a good epitaph
Are you REALLY Ryan North?
If you're actually Ryan, this will disable all logging for the rest of your session.
Your sentence will be checked locally and nothing will be recorded.
(If you're not Ryan, this is fine too. We just won't learn from your attempts.)