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I guess that is a huge clue, but I do not know any card games with an "egg" or a "40" in it... That is, taken that this is a sequence for a card game - it could be a number of other things of course.
Sorry, drawing a blank again :blush:
egg - 40 - low value playing card
I'm thinking that the answer could be "The numbers 1-39," but I really hope I'm wrong because I don't have a follow-up puzzle figured out. Yeah, anyhow, probably wrong...?
Sapphire was on the right track noticing that a zero is egg shaped. Hundreds of years ago someone else noticed this too, (A French speaker I would guess,) and a new word slipped into the language. It is only used in a sporting context though.
Deuce? No, that's 40-40, isn't it? Vantage? Love?
Almost there! - Game, set, but not quite the match!
This is really hard.. i have been asking everyone home :(
Does it has something to do with the life span of the egg.. which might be 40 days or weeks.. or from the production time ... whatevaaa.. i can't come up with anything..
Kasie made me think of tennis. I remembered something about "love" sounding like "l'oeuf" (French for egg) - so zero would become "egg".
But in tennis there is 15 and 30 between "egg" and 40... and no "low value playing card" after it... :(
Well, 15 and 30 seems like a good (possible) answer, ie. there could be two things.
15-40, 30-40, deuce (40-40), vantage Miss Williams. Deuce can be used in card games for the two of whatever suit, like ace for one, I think?) - You can tell I'm not much into games of any sorts, can't you!
If this is indeed the correct answer, please could someone else provide the next puzzle? I'm away and off-line for a week - IOU a puzzle, in that case.
What connects the Beatles, Prince and the Move - but not the Stranglers?
Sorry for delay I have been away. Kasie and Sapphire got it between them. 15 and 30 was the answer . Love (the tennis love that is,) is reputed to be a corruption of L'oeuf
Thoughts so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Could this be to do with Fruit?
Blackberry Way.
Strawberry Fields.
Cherry Moon.
BUT why not the Stranglers? Peaches are a friut too
Is there a difference between a berry and a fruit?
You're practically there.
Strawberry Fields, Blackberry Way and Raspberry Beret. As opposed to Peaches.
Ok here is a quick crossword clue I've just made up.
Buried after tax.
internet?
Yep, your turn.
What comes next?
88, 225, 365, 687, ?
Dunno, though I can tell what the numbers refer to.
4333 for the number of days it takes Jupiter to go around the sun and so forth the remaining planets.Quote:
Originally Posted by iamnobody
You got it! Your turn.
11 24 11
10 25 13
13 27 ?
Which number should replace the question mark?
10???
^I'm sorry, that is incorrect.
...12
^correct
Okay. Give me a day to come up with the next one...
Hmm. Are you looking for the exact date, or the day of the week on this one?
If two is blue, and three is white, and four is black in the UK but green in the US, what colour is one?
Red?
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Originally Posted by Scheherazade
...Why?
Oh, you know very well why!Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
I have no idea what these colours represent even though I checked many boardgames, sports, emergency alert codes, lottery and so on; looking at the colours already mentioned, I think 1 is either red or yellow. However, it'd be nice to know the reason behind it as well!
Well, given the colours I've mentioned, there's a good chance the answer would be red as opposed to, say, ochre or taupe. However, I want the why.
Are the colors those that represent various political parties ordered from most to least popular? That's what they could mean in Canadian politics.
How so? The Tories are blue, but the Libs are red, NDP orange, Greens green, and BQ light blue.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
Oh nvm, I thought that Tories were red and Libs were blue ('cuz of the American liberal = blue, conservative = red thing) with greens pulling up the rear. I totally forgot about the NDP.
This answer is not correct, according to the one source I tracked down, but since the information is somewhat variable, I'll throw it out there:
Silver.
(Silver/Gray is the most popular color for new automobiles. It has been for some time, but in 2009 white and black ranked ahead of blue.)
All very inventive, but not right.
Would y'all like a clue?
? States of emergency?
"It's a trap!"