[Buceph]

[question]
What are the countries the flags are of, and do they all still exist?

[pneumatik]

I think the

Quote:

"The scribe that wrote this puzzle needs to see Anna Heath for grammar lessons immediately. S."

little note is just to let us know that

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the grammatical error of using "countries" instead of the correct "country's" in the text box is actually what we should be looking for. I think it's there to let us know that we're looking at what is actually the correct answer.

[brat-sampson]

I think that's just there because these cards are prototypes, they still have editors comments or whatever on them. This was an actual comment from Sente.

[ellipses]

Just for completeness

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"The scribe that wrote this puzzle needs to see Anna Heath for grammar lessons immediately. S."

From this page http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/museum.html we have

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Forthcoming lectures and evening courses include: *Anna Heath, Fellow of the Academy and expert in ancient languages will give a talk on the ancient languages of the region and the beginnings of written script discovered on bone fragments.

[PuzzledPineapple]

Wow, as if the money weren't enough of an incentive!

[dthought]

PuzzledPineapple wrote:

Browsing the database mentioned above, no countries other than Libya have a solid green flag. dthought, Ireland's is like Italy only with orange instead of red. You're lucky I'm not Irish!

Hehe sorry to the irish

Perhaps the grammatical problem is a bit complex. I highlighted the letters of the flags in the card that has green in them and came up with an anagram of

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"dreioniw"

and i get the phrase

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"win or die"

[PuzzledPineapple]

Browsing the database mentioned above, no countries other than Libya have a solid green flag. dthought, Ireland's is like Italy only with orange instead of red. You're lucky I'm not Irish!

For reference, the scan of the card is here

[dthought]

theMoo wrote:

londubh wrote: "The scribe that wrote this puzzle needs to see Anna Heath for grammar lessons immediately. S." Could just be that the grammer is poor in the question. Should be 'Which country's flag is solid green', but I guess that wouldn't make a square grid.

The spelling of countries indicates plural - maybe there is more than one country that has solid green in their flag - eg Ireland? And the grammar may be that flag should read flags.

cheers.
dthought

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Vexillogy is the study of flags afaik

[londubh]

Is there a clue in the title: Vexillogy = A vexing syllogy?

A Syllogism is one of those: 'I live on Street X, All houses on street X are blue therefore my house is blue' things

So what could the components be? Again, I may be digging too deep (or at level more appropriate to the hex series than the card)

[smile]

Just commented on the solve from the wordsearch solve, that it resulted in a world also - I'm presuming that TheMoo is correct - and we'll end up with a series of words/numbers, that perhaps can be entered into a form on perplexcity.com

[theMoo]

londubh wrote:

"The scribe that wrote this puzzle needs to see Anna Heath for grammar lessons immediately. S."

Could just be that the grammer is poor in the question. Should be 'Which country's flag is solid green', but I guess that wouldn't make a square grid.

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Title changed to suit... i've been looking but I cant find anything yet

[londubh]

The bottom still needs to be solved?

"The scribe that wrote this puzzle needs to see Anna Heath for grammar lessons immediately. S."

There is a reference in the PCAcademy site about how the staff member Silas Andorian is known for map-based puzzles. Is it an anagram of the two names? Or does it refer to another card (or the solution to the Hex set?)

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I used about 7 or 8 world map pictures, and a few websites including this one which was awesome.

http://www.flags.ndirect.co.uk/mainindex.htm