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[quote="Buceph"]I somehow doubt that a flag for a country can be found where the countries name begins with an apostraphe(I'm prepared to be inundated with appropriate countries now.) What I was saying is that the corrected grammar would mean that the card is short on one flag.(Going on pure aesthetics and no country begining with an apostrophe). Then to make the card look nice and symmetrical again the apostophe could be left out and, "countries" changed to "countrys" and "was" replacing "is". It still makes sense this way. But I'm 99% sure I'm wrong. I'm just being belligerent because my head hurts.[/quote]
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pancakex
puzzle perplex city
it`s because "which countries flag is solid green" is grammatically incorrect. it should say "which country`s ..."
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:18 am
yochanan1
Lion Flag
comfycoxy wrote:
I just solved this card (only just started playing Perplex City!) but I have one question though.
What is the flag with the two gold lions in the corner of the St George England flag?
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
It is the "Flag of Sark": "Sark's flag is the personal standard of the Seigneur who gave permission for the island to use it for the Island Games. It has been the island flag ever since."
It took me a while to find that one...
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:05 am
comfycoxy
I just solved this card (only just started playing Perplex City!) but I have one question though.
What is the flag with the two gold lions in the corner of the St George England flag?
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:42 am
ozziog
hmm the only PXC card where we can all get knotted lol
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:31 pm
vodkasim
Solution Grid
Hi,
Just for the sake of completeness, I thought I would mention that in my solution to this card the question reads forwards, like normal text. It's still the same question but I thought people might be interested to know that you don't have to read it backwards.
Here's my solution grid, written with the grid of flags held upright in front of you, starting with Wales in the top left corner:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
W O E I D
H U S S G
I N F S R
C T L O E
H R A L E
C I G I N
As you can see, if you read it from top to bottom, left to right it spells out the question normally, not backwards.
Well, that's my 2c worth.
Simon
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:04 am
mattyjh
I know this card has been solved but I found these sites really useful for anyone who has a rubbish knowledge of flags (like me!) and is still struggling, but doesn't want to be given the answer!
http://www.flags.av.org/flags/
and
http://www.37.co.yu/fi/
both are flag identifiers that make the process alot easier!
Mattyjh
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:53 am
JebJoya
For completeness
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
libya
is accepted
Jeb
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:21 am
Juxta
Also, although in no way related to the solve of this particular card, another typo on it is the title - "Vexillogy". The correct spelling is, as far as the online dictionaries which I've looked at, "Vexillology"
J
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:17 am
nmarciano
green flag
Hmm... it turns out that an Egyptian kingdom *had* a "
solid green flag with three white stars and a crescent - the stars symbolizing the three "Peoples of the Book" who composed Egypt's population, while the green stood for the nationalist movement, the Hajj and the fertility of the Nile. Then, in 1958, that flag was replaced by that of the United Arab Republic - a banner in the tradition of the Arab Liberation Flag."
So I guess the United Arab Republic's flag *was* green at a point.
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:23 pm
nmarciano
tejas
The First Republic of Texas had a solid green flag, although not a country.
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:01 pm
question boy
Just found an all green 16th centruy persian Flag.....
does this effect the clue in anyway
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:18 am
Question boy
Dont forget that words used out of context can be grammatical errors such as "was" in place of "is". this would then make sense.
if there are older flags say the persian flag this could then make sense for the last line.
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:12 am
Bongadoo
I'd just like to point out this card is worth 43 points. Compare that to something like WordSpy (19 points), which still hasn't been solved and is looking to be a tough one, already with a second layer found (wordspy website and top 100 word list).
That makes this at least twice as hard as WordSpy, and that's only if the points scale relates linearly to difficulty. There must be a lot, lot more to this card.
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:28 am
Leeravitz
Any self - confessed lover of George Perec could not have things any other way!
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 10:45 am
yanka|tage
I wonder if this palindrome thing is some sort of an inside joke - one of the recruitment questions in the original Project Syzygy was "what is aibohphobia?"
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 8:07 am
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