So come on; who are you ?
Don't be afraid; we won't hurt you (much).
Who put the answer in the database as tried and failed ?
A shoal of trouts are heading your way.
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:47 am
Nerd
WOT!!!!!?!!!?!?!?!!? that damn numer is the bloody answer!!?!?!?! omg i knew about that ages ago!!!! but it thought someone had already entered it and found it incorrect. i was driven crazy looking around this thread at the anagrams
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:08 am
kniteli
heh, this sucks,
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i thought of putting in the number of all the languages a long time back, only difference was i put the number of languages that were in the countries on the card, but i guess its all the worlds languages...makes no sense to me.
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 10:37 am
beglee
i finally got the answer a while ago thanks to all the hints being dropped. So i tried to work backwards from the answer to the anagram that led to the answer and to construct the list of country names, but i couldnt quite get all the way there:
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If you take the native name of countires as follows:
Albania - Shqiperi, Angola - Angola, Austria - Osterrich, Brazil - Brasil, Chad - Tchad, Ecuador - Ecuador, Egypt - Misr, Equatorial Guinea - Guinea Ecuatorial, Eritrea - Ertra, Georgia - Sakartvelo, Ireland - Eire, Israel - Israil, Japan - Nippon, Jordan - Al'Urdun, Korea - Hanguk, Laos - Lao, Liberia - Liberia, Mauritania - Muritaniya, Netherlands - Nederland, New Caledonia - Nouvelle Caledonie, Oman - Uman, Russia - Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, Somalia - Somaliya, Spain - Espana, UK - United Kingdom, USA - United States of America, Uzbekistan - Ozbekistan Respublicksy, French Guyana - Guiana Francaise
This is what i think doublecross came up with yesterday, and gives SAOBTEMGESEINAHLLMNNURSEUUOG, which can be made into "sum the number OO single languages", or you can change the name for French Guyana to Francaise Guiana and get "sum the number of single LANGUAOES".
Have i made an error? Is the card slightly flawed? or is there another sentence that can be generated that implies the same answer?
Will we ever know????
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 10:32 am
cthrag yaska
The answer, no clues, no hints is:
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6912
i.e. the supposed number of languages in the world.
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 10:03 am
sirichj
congratulations
Well done everyone thank God it's been solved.
Even though I am still lost on what the answer is and how it was arrived at this has been driving me mad for weeks so maybe I'll get some sleep and if someone wants to post the answer instead of clues for the thick ones amongst us it would be appreciated
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:44 am
Rand0m
Federation of Micronesia?
That turned out to be a red herring, didn't it?
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 7:39 am
ramsfan
That's frustrating. I'd deliberately only wasted 2 guesses last night, knowing there'd be a flood of hints in the morning, but it's still locked me out. I think they've transposed GF, but they could have called it France, as in DOMTOM. However they should have then called NC the same thing.
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 7:02 am
cthrag yaska
Another nudge for those still struggling:
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EvilGenius sometimes believes the wrong thing...
(but otherwise was very helpful to me yesterday with another card, so the Cow's not all evil)
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 6:41 am
Hunting4Treasure
Re: OK, got it now
doublecross wrote:
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where did the F come from? None of the countries start with F in their native languages.
What about the one you reminded me I was leaving off my list?
Maybe the puzzle scribe transposed the 2 words?
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'French Guiana' should be 'Guyane Française' (in French, their native language), but 'Française Guyane' would also work... ?
I haven't totally reverse-engineered it myself, yet.
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 6:22 am
mikeyj|work
I love it when exciting things like this happen...I think I've got the answer from all the hints, but can't do anything about it until I get home...AARRGH!
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 6:12 am
doublecross
OK, got it now
Got it now, thanks to a final nudge from Guin - who I record for posterity as currently being the sole #1 on the Leaderboard.
If it is indeed an anagram, or ordering of the countries,
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where did the F come from? None of the countries start with F in their native languages.
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:39 am
Rand0m
And to help a little further:
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You don't type the anagram in the answer box, you use it to research a piece of information which is the answer. The piece of information is shorter than the anagram. Both anagram and answer have been posted here recently.
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:16 am
uptheblades
to stop you all wandering off tangentially,
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eveything you need to solve this card has been posted since yesterday..
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:13 am
cthrag yaska
Can someone throw a clue... are we looking at an anagram of the countries' names, their native languages or what?
