OK, you're right, you exhibited some skill when you got it in your sights, fair and square--but you took down two innocent scenarios with your scattershot blast.
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OK, you're right, you exhibited some skill when you got it in your sights, fair and square--but you took down two innocent scenarios with your scattershot blast.
Maybe not the answer you're looking for but, they all have silent letters.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Correct.
Your go.
The following words have been placed in this order for a reason. What is it?
Trick
Squad
Serpent
Cathexis
Antiseptic
Octopus
The relative ages of the languages from which they originate?Quote:
Originally Posted by iamnobody
(Total speculation. I'm much too lazy to do research.)
Not it.
To stump us.
It would help to be thinking mathematically.
Tri, quad, pent, "six", sept, octo.Quote:
Originally Posted by iamnobody
Sooo close, but you're off by one. "Six" is "hex". Close enough.
Your turn.
^That's brilliant. I was barking up the completely wrong river.
Ok, how about detecting something notable in this sentence:
One time the forest felt strange.
It's an anagram of another sentence that means exactly the same thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by jajdude
we're back to one, two, three, four, five, six.
Yeah, I was lazy. If anyone can come up with that anagram I'd be impressed though.
Truth be told, I have lots interest in the thread because some questions do not seem to offer enough mental excitement for me; I like it when I reach for pen and paper, so to speak, and work something out.
Strange felt the forest one time.
There's your anagram:biggrin5:
Next one.
Everything was hunky dory until the phone rang -not one of my pet sounds at that time in the morning- like a dummy, I grabbed it off the wall. Hi! What's going on? I said in my best Steve McQueen voice. The Woman on the other end sounded different class. “You gotta help me” she said. I held the phone closer, that voice had more raw power than a loaded revolver. “My place has been ransacked, some of my vinyl is missing, but I don't know which ones.” It's a sign o' the times doll,” I drawled, “but nevermind, I'm on the case!”
There were at least 13 albums missing from her record collection. All top one hundred greatest of all time stuff, how many can you name? Bonus points for the artists.
Sorry scher no pencil needed.
First three:
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Revolver - The Beatles
Is it singles as well? Because Prince's Sign O' The Times, Off the Wall by Michael Jackson, What's Going On? by Four Non-Blondes, and few that seem to be obscured
What's the speed of dark?
Slightly faster than the speed of light - whenever light gets there, dark has already arrived and sitting comfortably on the couch with a stein of beer
Dummy - Portishead
Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout
Different Class - Pulp
Closer - Joy Division
Loaded - Velvet Underground
Raw Power - Iggy and the Stooges
Nevermind - Nirvana
Plus MM's three (Hunky Dory, Pet Sounds and Revolver) - and Sign o' the Times and Off the Wall are in fact both albums, as is What's Going On by Marvin Gaye.
I couldn't spot anymore. (The was a Bangles album called "Everything", but, uh...)
These can be grouped in threes - which is the one left over?
rain breast eye blood
mist haze peel
fever hammer
tit belly patch balls
I don't know if I am misunderstanding the puzzle, or if there was meant to be an additional word (or two less words) in the list. The way I saw it, since there are twelve words in the list, I was able to make four groups of three, with no words left over. Therefore, I have assembled three groups of three, as well as a fourth group of words that would not fit in the first three groups.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
rain tit mist (words containing the letter "i" once)
eye peel fever (words containing the letter "e" twice)
breast haze hammer (words containing the letters "e" and "a" once each)
blood belly patch (the left overs)
Again, my groupings are probably all wrong ("rain" having an "a" in it, unlike its relatives, is particularly suspicious), I'm just throwing it out there.
Crap - I missed one out. See edited original post.
Yeah, you need four groups of three which will leave one over.
Apologies, bill.
Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
No problem! Well, actually, I think I'll probably have a big problem figuring it out.
Fever hammer?
One left over - so, fever or hammer. Which is it? And why?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Don't be misled by the layout either. It could as easily have been this....
rain breast eye blood mist haze peel fever hammer tit belly patch balls
And the order they're given here doesn't matter either.
All of the words will remain English words after having one or more letters removed from them, except for the word "eye".
Groupings:
fever ever, tit it, peel eel (remove first letter)
mist is, blood loo, balls all (remove first and last letters)
breast beast, rain ran, patch path (remove one interior letter)
haze he, hammer her, belly by (remove more than one interior letter)
NOTE: "breast" could also, unfortunately, fit into the last grouping (thus yielding "best"), and so this final grouping finally makes my suggested system here look a little less elegant than the first three groupings seemed to be promising.
What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?
You void you bowels.Quote:
Originally Posted by MANICHAEAN
Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
So much thought appears to have gone into that it seems almost churlish to say, No, not even close.
I have a strong feeling its hammer. Now to work out why.
I'm thinking colours
It's not hammer.
I may have overcomplicated it. I can make it simpler by cutting it down to these, primarily...
breast eye blood mist peel fever hammer tit belly balls
Its peel, which is orange.
haze, patch, rain. purple
blood, tit, balls?. blue
fever, belly, hammer yellow
mist, breast, eye. red
Yep. Well done.
An American will happen by any minute to explain 'blue balls'....
I'm not sure I want to know.
Here's one for Scher. I copied it, because I wouldn't know where to begin to do one of these. I don't know if its hard or easy.
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k7.../mathsquiz.jpg
Does anyone here have experience with these? Maybe there's a name for them...
EDIT: removed a rambling and roundabout exploration of the question of "operator precedence" in this puzzle.
Mick, have you seen the solution to this one? Does the math check out? I have a VERY NEAR solution, but the hand-written alterations (?) have me wondering if there was something amiss along the way. That, combined with the issue of operator precedence. (I actually thought I had the right answer, but I was working in pen and missed the negative sign.)
I have a "solution", but the 36 isn't negative. Maybe I just have to work harder, but I'd like confirmation that there's a solution that checks out, if possible.
Again, the "solution" I have is done without operator precedence... I just went left-to-right, and top-down: multiplication didn't necessarily come before addition. (e.g. 1+2x3=9 is the nature of the solution I found.)
I'll post this "near answer" later if it stumps everyone for too long, and if Mick allows me to do so. That's just a sketchy looking puzzle--but my apologies, of course, if that is your handwriting, Mick.
Ah-ha Well spotted billl. I copied the puzzle straight from an old newspaper - and they have misprinted it - or made a mistake. I reckon that minus sign is wrong too, but it is there in the original.
That'll larn me not to use other peoples puzzles.
I left no instructions to add an extra layer of puzzlement.