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The Paperclip Gazette

Tuesday market, Market hours

Vintage car proves a hard sell

Tuesday’s vintage car went for 5 trades. 34 traders made a trade; 33 reached the vintage car, 14 of them by the shortest route.

Tuesday’s prize: a vintage car, 5 trades from a red paperclip.

How the market went

The opening bell

The painter was the favourite first trade, with 24 traders: the only opening that keeps the 5-trade route open. 10 went to the sailor first.

Dead ends

Nobody traded their way into a dead end.

The route

Only one set of 5 trades gets there. Open it only if you want the answer.

Show the 5-trade route to the vintage car
  1. Give the painter your red paperclip for a button and an apple.
  2. Give the fisher your apple for a bell.
  3. Give the clockmaker your button for an apple.
  4. Give the astronomer your bell and apple for an umbrella and a fishing rod.
  5. Give the beekeeper your fishing rod for the vintage car.

Today’s market is open

A new market opens every day at midnight where you are. It’s free, and there’s nothing to sign up for.

Play today’s puzzleStuck? Today’s hints

The Gazette is written each day from the market’s own numbers: anonymous counts of trades and solves, nothing about anyone. A puzzle’s edition comes out once it’s over everywhere in the world, at noon UTC the next day. Kept by Pranav Bhaven Savla, who makes Paperclip.