Delhi flyer finds mystery numbers on Air India cutlery, the answer to the riddle is..

A Delhi flyer shared an Air India cutlery puzzle asking passengers to identify an aviation pioneer. The coded tribute turned an in-flight tea break into an online guessing game.Delhi flyer finds mystery numbers on Air India cutlery (Photo: @RizGandotra/X)A Delhi man was given a little brain teaser with his in-flight tea after spotting a coded message on an Air India cutlery set. The puzzle asked passengers to crack a sequence of numbers to identify a pioneer of Indian aviation.Ritesh G, an X user, shared a picture of the cutlery set, drawing attention to the riddle printed on the back of its packaging. It read: “10, 27, 18, 27, 4, 27, 20, -1, -20, -1” followed by the clue: “Crack the code to meet the pioneer of the skies.”Sharing the picture, Ritesh called it “a little brain teaser with my tea at 35,000 feet” and challenged people to solve it without Googling. He also appreciated the airline for adding the small puzzle to its packaging.Take a look at the post here: The answer, as several users pointed out, was JRD Tata, widely regarded as a pioneer of Indian aviation. One user explained that the numbers could be decoded using the positions of letters in the English alphabet, with A corresponding to 1, B to 2 and so on. Others quickly arrived at the same answer, identifying the aviation pioneer without needing any outside help.The puzzle also prompted appreciation for the airline's thoughtful touch. Some users seemed to enjoy the idea of turning an otherwise ordinary in-flight tea break into a moment of curiosity, while others joined in to share the answer and explain how the code worked.- Ends