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Was there enough information around for the Jester to correctly determine the box? I guess he could have figured that the more obvious solution was the key being in the box labelled as having the key in it, and the king was mad at him, so that probably wasn't it.
That doesn't seem all that strong evidence.
The parable implied the disconnect between inscriptions and box content, so no, there couldn't have been enough information.