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27 August 2026

Puzzle sentence and answer

The sentence

In thirty years at an Ohio children's hospital, one surgeon draws ten thousand cartoons on little bandages.

Show the five-word answer
surgeondrawscartoonsonbandages

Kept 'ten thousand'? A huge number, and still just a count. Yesterday two billion dollars died the same way. The bandage is the story. This is real. Dr Robert Parry, a children's surgeon in Akron, Ohio, asks every kid before their operation what they want on the dressing. Snoopy, a Lamborghini, Mickey in scrubs. They wake up and the drawing is the first thing they see, not the scar. Thirty years of that, about ten thousand bandages.

Every word, accounted for

Inglue. never in the answer
thirtya count. change it and the story is the same
yearsgoes with thirty
atglue. never in the answer
anglue. never in the answer
Ohiowhere it happened. not what happened
children'ssays which hospital. the little bandages already say it
hospitalwhere he works. the drawing is the news
onea count. change it and the story is the same
surgeonwho did it. stays
drawswhat he does, ten thousand times over. stays
tena huge number, and still just a count. yesterday two billion dollars died the same way
thousandgoes with ten
cartoonswhat he draws. stays
ona small word doing big work today. stays
littledecoration. drop it and nothing checkable changes
bandagesthe thing itself. stays
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