Daily puzzles/problems.

[billl]

There is another author who has written a book called The Meaning of Meaning: W. Terrence Gordon (although a C. K. Ogden is also in the mix for that one, maybe as a fictional author or something?).

[billl]

Is there perhaps an Irish translation of his second novel, titled The Sirens O' Titan?

[MarkBastable]

There is another author who has written a book called The Meaning of Meaning: W. Terrence Gordon (although a C. K. Ogden is also in the mix for that one, maybe as a fictional author or something?).

That is the most difficult one, so I'll give it to you: I was thinking of this guy. Frankly, I didn't know about him until I started researching in order to construct this problem, as a component of which he qualified precisely.

[prendrelemick]

That's the fourth name in connection with that title

[Jack of Hearts]

Going to guess that if you unscramble all of the initials in the authors' names you will have letters sufficient to produce:

Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday

- but it seems where this reader has just arrived, Scher has already sat down, had a coke and a hamburger, and come back twice.


Not sure if there was a method to the 'unscrambling', just happened to see 'breakfast' in all the alphabet soup, for starters.




J

[MarkBastable]

Yep - the initials in the authors' names are the component letters of The Breakfast of Champions. Scheh gave the method, if not the answer, several posts back.


Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ..........Philip K Dick.......... k
Four Quartets.......... TS Eliot.......... t s
Mr Balcony.......... CHB Kitchin.......... c h b
Necronomicon ..........HP Lovecraft.......... h p
One Way Pendulum ..........NF Simpson.......... n f
The Cop and the Anthem..........O Henry.......... o
The Coral Island.......... R M Ballantyne .......... r m
The Gift of the Magi.......... O Henry.......... o
The Great Gatsby.......... F Scott Fitzgerald.......... f
The Meaning of Meaning.......... ..........IA Richards....... i a
The Waste Land.......... TS Eliot.......... t s
The House at Pooh Corner.......... AA milne.......... a a
Tulips and Chimneys.......... EE Cummings.......... e e

[Jack of Hearts]

Good one, Mark.








J

[Jack of Hearts]

The Art History Two-Step Puzzle Thing

Use these overly ambiguous clues to do the 'Art History Two-Step' and discover the name of Jack of Hearts' favorite artist. We'll show you the steps!

Two to the right:
Cool!

Four to the left:
Wow!


Cha-cha-cha!


Six to the right:
Amazing!

Twenty-two to the left:
Neat!


Cha-cha-cha!


Nine to the right:
Fun!


Cha!

Positively Pulverized by MarkBastable on 8/15/2011

[prendrelemick]

This is puzzleing on a whole new level.

By following the steps I ended up on the Gauguin.

But need to check a few things first, like where to start and is there another layer to unravel like, initials of artists.

[Jack of Hearts]

You're a natural Mick, we just need to get a good pace going.

A good place to start is to know exactly what you're looking at. Once you figure that out, it seems each of the five steps will somehow contribute to the greater whole.

And when they do, you'll already know that you shouldn't count spaces. No, never when dancing.





J

[MarkBastable]

Ernst?


(I'm pushed for time so I'm suggesting this without having finished the sleuthing.)

[Jack of Hearts]

While that's an incorrect conclusion, your method may be sound. If you post your sleuthing we can see what's correct and start putting this sick animal of a puzzle out to pasture.







J

[MarkBastable]

Without looking up the names of the paintings, and just going on those I know, I'd say we need an artist whose name is E*h**.

Or, strictly speaking, É*h**.


However, I may be a long way up an erroneous tree.

[Jack of Hearts]

Tell how you've acquired É with accent aigu?

Other than that your ingenuity is applauded so far...





J

[billl]

Taking the painters' full names (well, their first and last names, anyhow) as being circles of letters in which the last letter wraps to the beginning, and then beginning at the "space" between the first and last letter and following the directions for the name of the painter of each linked painting, I, well, I thought the last painting was a Goya, and it doesn't seem to be, and I can't be sure who painted the fourth one. But I did get this:

1. a
2. u
3. d
4.
5.

Which leads me to speculate that the poet Jack of Hearts might be a fan of Auden.