Update....
Mick and Kasie have got it, so they're out. I've put in a clue to number 5.
Everyone else - PM me your clues for number 6.
1. Request for gratification.
2. Accompanying the creators.
3. A dark passage of inflexible light.
4. Buggy retail.
5. Mayday.
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Last edited by MarkBastable; 07-06-2011 at 06:12 AM.
No action. Shall I kill this one?
I would've asked for a clue, but... These are clues, right?
I think I might know number 1, but the next most promising was 4, and it's 3 away from one, so the sky's the limit. This is enticing, but I just had trouble getting it to click--hope it won't seem toooo obvious once I find out.
1. Request for gratification. Please Please Me
2. Accompanying the creators. With the Beatles
3. A dark passage of inflexible light. A Hard Day's Night
4. Buggy retail. Beatles for Sale
5. Mayday. Help!
...and so on.
Mick got it first. Over to him.
I have a little something prepared..er..copied if I'm honest.
Gudewife Judith returns from milking the goats with a 12 pint bucket brimfull of milk. She decides to use half to make cheese and half to make syllabub. She hunts about in her dairy but can only find her 5 pint earthernware pot and her 7 pint earthernware bowl. Undeterred she sets about pouring milk into and out of her 3 vessels and soon has exactly 6 pints in the bucket and 6 pints in the bowl. How does she do it.?
12 7 5 Receptacles
Can't get the columns to line up, but....
12 0 0
5 7 0
5 2 5
10 2 0
10 0 2
3 7 2
3 4 5
8 4 0
8 0 4
1 7 4
1 6 5
6 6 0
I really ought to do some work soon.
faultless.
Thank you. But really a lot easier than that explanation makes it look.Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Yes it is, all you need do is make sure you never repeat yourself and it works automatically.
In the grown-up version, the containers are held by two sheep and a wolf, who have to cross a river in a canoe that can hold only two at once.
(To be clear, actually, that was a great puzzle, wish I had gone after it right away... Maybe just plugging away, half-asleep, would've won me the prize! Anyhow, both of you have been an inspiration...)
Last edited by billl; 07-14-2011 at 02:48 AM. Reason: to be clear
Literary 'and's... Again, they aren't any old 'and'. They're either intrinsic to the answer or, at the very least, indicative of how to figure it out.
The convention here is that titles are in caps and quotations aren't, regardless of how they'd be set if they were printed in full...
1. O&L
2. Lugt,y&i...
3. TP&TG
4. TM&S
5.J&TP
6. Itbww,&twwwg,&twwg.
7.GE&H
8. D&S
9. DS:OHILTSW<B
10. TH&HB
11.TTLG,&WAFT
12. F&Z
13. DJ&MH
14. Z&TAOMM
15. Ouat&avgtiwtwamcdatr...
16. DL&TLG
17. TS&TF
18. Iwad&sn...
19. Iwabcdia,&tcws13.
20. Iyrwthai, tftypwtkiwiwb, &wmlcwl, &hmpwo&abthm, &atdckoc...
Last edited by MarkBastable; 07-14-2011 at 06:09 PM.
Recognised 14 straightaway.
Zen and the art of Motercycle Maintainance.
8. Dombey and son.
Will try harder tomorrow.
2. Let us go there, you and I (?)
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
18. It was a dark and stormy night.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
...'then', rather than 'there' - but close enough.
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