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| Gramps |
Sorry for the double this got chopped from my 1st post some how...
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 Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:34 am
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| Gramps |
This one wasn't too bad, there was some ambiguity in the second phase
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| the clue is more idiomatic to the solution than I would expect
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& search engine disambiguation could have been better
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| (didn't get the proper title for the first painting until I saw the solution)
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Having an older (more classical) education probably helps -- both in spotting what to do and determining the final answer
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| which I think of as having been imported into English via crime dramas
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As far as rating the puzzles, it would seem a good way to get useful feedback.
Some have been very very good and others much less so. Some variation is to be expected, but if there was a way to find not just which ones were best liked but why it could serve as a guide to improving the 'product'.
The greatest problem being that it is difficult to discuss what one thinks worked and didn't work without revealing the mechanics of the solution.
<<Ace>>
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:28 am
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So, basically, we're required to be fluent in another language to solve this puzzle, as well as be familiar with an obscure set of writing genre, and have a graphics program that can manipulate the original image to make writing legible. Even Batman would kick this one in the head and tie it up on a light post without thinking twice. I'll admit I've not been doing this long, but last weeks puzzle was just wrong, and now this week is a guessing game. Only one of three puzzles was a puzzle, the rest were hogwash.
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:16 am
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| Rogi Ocnorb |
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| I still got nothing. I've got the phrase, tried googling it... nothing. |
The one part of the flavortext that I feel could have helped was not intuitive, at all. All I can offer for help is that...
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| Initially, you should start with the title.
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:15 am
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| Bestable |
I think we should be able to rate each puzzle, especially the guest one.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:52 pm
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| SoItBegins |
I still got nothing. I've got the phrase, tried googling it... nothing.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:52 pm
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| paramis |
Mystery Ongoing
The language thing:
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| TMT has a history of using one specific non-English language, going back to the very first theorem and some of the more fiendish puzzles. Our guest puzzler shows that, like M, she is also versed in its use.
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:30 pm
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| Rogi Ocnorb |
Okay. I'm familiar with the phrase; But, based on the clues I was "supposed" to use to get it, I gotta say that none of that even crossed my mind.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:28 pm
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| Ace |
A 'guess what I'm thinking' puzzle that's not in English. Brilliant. Might as well make the answer a random number between one and a hundred and assure you that it's a prime number, or an even number. This isn't a puzzle, this is a guessing game. There's no point in trying to solve a guessing game, you can't solve a guessing game. You either know the bit of trivia or you don't.
If it helps anyone, it's not the title to any Japanese folk songs or any Japanese phrases. But, outside of that, I don't read obscure crime novels to begin with, and certainly not ones not in English, so I'm useless at this puzzle.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:15 pm
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| HSoup |
Re: still don't get it
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is this phrase in french or english?
is it really obvious? |
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| The answer is in neither of those languages.
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The answer will seem more obvious after you know it, but that's always the case, isn't it? I felt stupid for not getting it faster, but I feel stupid a lot, so that might be me.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:14 pm
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| bibes |
UGH
I'm glad to see i'm not the only one who's stuck on this :/ I got the the second clue, but can't figure out how to apply it.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:12 pm
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| Noanymous |
Re: no cigar
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| Still no idea. I'm beginning to think I just don't know this phrase. |
Same here.
The unlockable hints to the puzzle are (as often) completely useless. Only the third one is about "solving the riddle" and all it adds is
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| it's a non-english phrase
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:11 pm
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| Rogi Ocnorb |
Really hate it when it boils down to "Guess what I'm thinking." and my brain is wired differently.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:10 pm
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| babo |
still don't get it
is this phrase in french or english?
is it really obvious?
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:09 pm
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| Ace |
Re: Umm....
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| What does the phrase 'The Usual Way We Work' have to be a synonym to? Heck, I know it from an old Japanese folk song that has nothing to do with thieving.
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You know that's not the phrase, right? It's only slightly, yet fundamentally, different. |
It's what I'm getting from the puzzle. Slightly yet completely different. So it's like a soap bubble universe attached to our universe only completely not a bubble, but more like a plug hole.
Or is it 'Thistles When We Work'? Because I know I've hummed that a thousand times on the farm. But that's probably not it, it's not referring to theft either.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:02 pm
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