ah - that would be Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem - and I would never have got it without the clue!!
A tricky set of clues, Mark!
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ah - that would be Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem - and I would never have got it without the clue!!
A tricky set of clues, Mark!
Can whoever got the most right do the next one? Or you can wait until I count it up, which is likely not to be until Friday, as I have to go to Scotland tomorrow and the very prospect so disturbs me that I'm going to have to start drinking heavily forthwith.
Scotland is an excellent place to drink if you like scotch.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
I never heard of that last one. What's the American title?
Well, I don't know for sure that it was re-titled in America, but Wikipedia mentions that it was 'also published as The Trial of Elizabeth Cree'). Both appear on Amazon US.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
I don't like scotch, actually. I'm with Adrian Mole on whisky: If it came in medicine bottles, grown-ups would pour it down the sink.
A rough tot-up suggests to me that it's Mick's turn.
Yep. I know I have no power here, especially with my meager (but respectable!) recent contribution(s!), but I think it might be worth mentioning that, really, if ANYONE has something good, they could probably go ahead and throw it out there (with apologies to the last "winner") after 24 hours or so.
That's just my thoughts on it, anyhow, since we've been bleeding each other dry, and racing around the globe (or city. or Yorkshire.) doing other things.
Quite so, billl - I'm sure Mick will not mind - if you have a good puzzle to offer, go ahead, I'd say.
Oh, um. Yes. Quite right. Same for all of us. Me, as well. Anyone. Right, umm...
Please go ahead billl, I didn't realise it was my turn, I have nothing prepared.
Ok, to keep this thing ticking over, here is something I shamelessly copied.
Pair up these random words and connect each pair with a five letter word. eg "shop" and "boards" can be connected with "floor".
each
shop
icon
clock
village
side
ring
spring
super
smoke
cream
boards
wise
hair
shop floor boards
smoke alarm clock
spring onion ring
super model village
hair style icon
each other wise
side salad cream
I'm not sure the Americans would ever have got 'salad cream'.
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This lot can be divided into three groups of five, with one odd-one-out.
harvey daddy alan maid
shake party ceremony cane
bag plantation grounds clipper
dance round breast bowl
cane, daddy, Alan, plantation and bowl = sugar
shake, maid, breast, round and harvey = milk
clipper, ceremony, bag, dance and party = tea
grounds is the odd one out.
I think billl ought to set one about corn dogs and hershey bars to restore transatlantic balance.
Yes, hopefully, if all goes well, I'll work a little magic tomorrow. I have to go to the dentist, though, and it isn't just a check-up. Maybe OK, though--and if so, I'd subsequently be delighted to sit here and come up with a little something to alleviate the awful deficit that's been built up.
harvey = milk??? This one escapes me - can anyone explain, please?
I thought you'd gone north of the border, Mark? They let you back into the country, then?
Harvey Milk - American activist and politician, subject of a recent biopic starring Sean Penn.Quote:
Originally Posted by kasie
Thanks, Mark - have never heard of the man or the biopic but then, I don't get out much. (Have heard of Sean Penn.)
Doh! Nah, it's cool.
It was dinner for one again, and so Mr. Singleton stopped by the market on the way home--he had to buy a small packet of flour for the evening's pizza. When he got home, he went right to the kitchen, poured the flour into a bowl, and whipped-up some dough. Soon, he was flipping that dough around and rolling it flat, eventually forming a typical (albeit smallish, 20 cm across...) circular pizza-shape, one cm thick.
It was then that he realized that he had forgotten to buy the sauce. Frustrated for just a moment, he checked that he had some butter and garlic in the fridge, and then went about shaping the dough into a long two-cm-thick sausage-shape. This long roll was then cut into 20 cm long sections to make bread sticks.
How many garlic-and-butter-covered bread sticks was he able to bake that night?
A pizza is only a short fat bread stick after all so you would think that if you made it a tenth as thick (from 20 to 2) it would be ten times as long (from 1 to 10) But due to the inpenetratable mysteries of maths that doesn't work.
So.. The pizza and the bread stick are really just cylinders of the same volume.
pi x (rxr) x h =v
3.14x100x1=314 (the pizza)
3.14x1x100=314 (the bread stick)
so the bread stick cylinder is 100cm long (h) or 5 x 20 cm lenghs
That is correct, sir! Once again, Mick makes short work of a circle puzzle.
Here's one dredged up from memory.
An ill fitting locked door is the only way into the room. There is nothing in the room apart from a small table with the only key to the door on it.
How's that done then?
Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
How ill-fitting is it? Is it, like, so ill-fitting that the gap between the door and the jamb is big enough for a portly chap to wander through with the key in his hand? Or just so ill-fitting that he could get his arm through the gap to drop the key on the table? Or so ill-fitting that...well, you can see where I'm going.
'Ill-fitting' is a fuzzy and unqualified thing to tell us - but presumably it matters, otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned it. In order to take a shot at the problem, we need to know what it actually means.
Perhaps the other key was destroyed (e.g. melted down) after someone used it to lock the the door, leaving the above-mentioned key in the room on the table.
The ill fitting is significant. There is about half an inch gap at the top and underneath the door. There is and has always been only one key to the door.
Is the length of fine black thread dropped negligently on the floor outside the locked door of any consequence?
Or the powerful electromagnet sitting on the table?
EDIT; I mean the electromagnet beyond the wall opposite the door, but it of course doesn't matter...
It most certainly is Kasie (or is that Miss Marple?)
.....well, go on then.
Ok Kasie has probably got it. For the benefit of the others, close examination of the table would reveal a pin prick on its surface.
It's an abseiling key?
You could say that. Just the details to fill in.
Bloke sticks a pin - actually a needle would be better - into the table, attaches a thread to it and walks out of the room, feeding the thread through the gap at the top of the door. He locks the door and slips the key over the thread. The key slides down the thread to the small table. The bloke yanks the pin out and pulls it back through the gap.
I have another version that involves a gymnastic mouse and a drinking straw, but it might be a bit far-fetched.
Correct. One of several locked room scenerios from the murder mystery genre.
Kasie?
Hello, people - I'm back.....
Apologies - I posted that reply and swanned off to London for a few days, little thinking it was the right answer. I remembered reading something like it in a whodunnit years ago (Christie? Conan Doyle?) but can't recollect exactly how it worked though I think Mark has the gist of it.
Will post a puzzle as soon as I've recovered from the trip - all these late nights, I can't keep going like I used to.... Chat among yourselves for a bit unless anyone has something to keep us going until my brain catches up with me, I think it's still changing trains, Bristol or Cardiff, or somewhere...
OK - a day later....
Forgive me if we've had this one before - I know I've seen it somewhere but maybe it's just that the cousin who sent it to me today has sent it some time previously.
What have the following words in common?
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
There - that should keep you busy for all of, oh, five minutes?
If you take away the first letter in each word, they are all palindromes?
You're heading in the right direction, Annamariah - do something with that first letter....
Firstly I reckon Annamaria got it, because without her I wouldn't've noticed that if you put the first letter to the end you can read them backwards.
Well done, Mick and Annamariah - you decide who goes next.
I can't think of any puzzle at the moment, so if you've got one, Mick, go ahead :)