Daily puzzles/problems.

[prendrelemick]

Their Satanic Majesties Request - but close enough.

What was the site?

Amazon.
By the way what was the cat's eye one?

[MarkBastable]

Amazon.
By the way what was the cat's eye one?

You put in the year and then scrolled through every album released?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshir...link-182_album)

[prendrelemick]

No, only the top 100. I do have a life - of sorts.

[MarkBastable]

No, only the top 100. I do have a life - of sorts.

I've often wondered what shepherds do to get to sleep.

[billl]

Like the recent puzzles Mark has done, this one involves images that clue one in to particular letters. We're looking for 13 letters this time, and they will be used to form a well-known song title. The images presented here are composites of other images alluded to in the clues:


The first letters of the last names of these two authors (one Brit, and one American) provide two letters for the solution to the puzzle:




The first letters of the last names of these three U.S. authors provide three letters for the solution to the puzzle:




The first letters of the last names of these two authors (one American, and one Brit) provide two letters for the solution to the puzzle:




The first letters of the last names of these two British authors provide two letters for the solution to the puzzle:




The first letters of the album titles for these four album covers provide four letters for the solution to the puzzle:




SO, that's 13 letters total. These thirteen letters can be arranged to create the title of what hit pop song?

(Note: the clues refer to the images below them. Also, I'm not entirely sure that each step of this is sufficiently difficult, but I've been wrong before.)

[prendrelemick]

Crikey billl, you've been busy.

Is the Brit in the first one Mark Bastable?

[billl]

Is the Brit in the first one Mark Bastable?

I see the resemblance, but no. (Brilliant idea, I must say.)

[MarkBastable]

The fourth one is a composite of George Orwell and Virginia Woolf.

And one of the albums is Abraxas.

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I'd be immensely flattered to feature in a quiz such as this. But it'll never happen.

[jajdude]

EA Poe in the one with three? Perhaps Mark Twain as well?

Maybe Stephen King in the first one?

[billl]

The fourth one is a composite of George Orwell and Virginia Woolf.

And one of the albums is Abraxas.

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I'd be immensely flattered to feature in a quiz such as this.

Right!

EA Poe in the one with three? Maybe Stephen King in the first one?

I was hoping someone would say King there (but no, it isn't King, sorry). But you're in the ballpark (these aren't all repeat-Pulitzer-winners here).

No Poe in this--actually, that one with three might be tougher than I think. Even knowing the original pics, I kind of have to work at it to see them in that one... These might require clues, but I'll wait a bit longer.



TO SUM UP, Mark got this one (Orwell and Woolf):



from these


and he got one of the Albums (Santana's Abraxas)

Letters so far: O, W, A

[prendrelemick]

One of the three is Hemmingway.

[billl]

One of the three is Hemmingway.

YES

...and I thought that might be the hardest one there in that one. (It's the most famous photo of him, I think, so I was just hoping those scraps would click with someone around here.)


Letters so far: O, W, A, H

[MarkBastable]

Poe?

Also...




and possibly

[billl]

Neither Poe nor Twain feature in any of the images.

However, these two album covers (from Thriller and Nevermind) DO feature in the final image. That means that three of four albums have been accounted for. The last album might be the most challenging part of this puzzle (like Abraxas, it's a "classic" LP, but not in the same league sales-wise as these last two).

So, we have:

(first image, two authors to go)
1 author (second image, two authors to go): Hemingway
(third image, two authors to go)
2 authors (fourth image, completed): Orwell, Woolf
3 albums (fifth image, one album to go): Abraxas, Thriller, Nevermind

Letters so far: O, W, A, H, T, N


Note: Due to differences in the proportions between images, there has been some (generally slight) warping of some original images, in order to completely fit them in the area taken by the other images of the composite. This is analogous to the warping we sometimes see when a panoramic film scene gets squeezed, and suddenly the cowboy hero looks particularly tall and emaciated.

In the case of one of these images, the warping is rather severe, so I'm going to post an alternate form: it's the same composite of the same two images, but this time the images will swap status as "warped" and "non-warped". (This problem could have been avoided with some judicious trimming pre-compositing, but live and learn...)

So, here's the original third image, side-by-side with the new version:

[MarkBastable]

The problem here, for me, is that I don't actually know what most authors look like. I'd say that if they appeared on the TV, I'd recognise about one in eight of the authors whose books are on the shelf closest to where I'm now sitting.