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Each question asks one thing about a mystery that evidence could settle. Key questions are the ones at the heart of a mystery; every other question helps answer one of them.

23questions3answered5with no evidence yet
Voynich Manuscript
Voynich Manuscript5 key questions · 23 questions · 3 answered
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Question and its answers most likelystill possibleruled outon a key question: each question under itWhere it stands
Partly answered3 of 5 questions under it answered
Answered1404–1438, by radiocarbon
AnsweredThe sheet is the unit of composition
AnsweredFive, by their letterforms
No evidence yetNo answers yet
No evidence yetNo answers yet
Most likelyA notation or memory system
Partly answered5 of 6 answers ruled out
Partly answered9 of 10 answers ruled out
Open1 answer, none ahead
Partly answered1 of 2 answers ruled out
Most likelyThe line is a unit of the system
Most likelyEach scribe ran the procedure in his own way
Most likely-m is a line-final form of -in / -n
Most likely-m is a line-final form of -in / -n
No evidence yetNo answers yet
Most likelyEach herbal page opens with its plant's name
Most likelyEach herbal page opens with its plant's name
Open6 answers, none ahead
No evidence yetNo answers yet
No evidence yetNo answers yet
Most likelyA gallows glyph (t/k, Currier P/F) opens each entry as a discourse particle