Brandoozle #86 answer

How players did

Players

27

Solved

96%

26 of 27

Average turns

2.5

among solvers

Difficulty

tricky

2 ratings

Half of the players who solved it did so by stage 3 of 6 — the measure of how little of the logo people needed.

The six facts

1. Patented in 1845 but commercially useless until a cough syrup maker bought it in 1897.

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2. Its rights were sold for $450 in 1899 to a man who made a fortune from it.

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3. Free recipe booklets distributed door to door drove its early adoption.

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4. Bill Cosby was its spokesman for over thirty years.

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5. A molded salad version was a mid-century American dinner party fixture.

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6. Its name became so generic that its owner fights to protect it.

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