Ah, bird brain! Of course! It's a bit ironic that I didn't pick up on that.
Ah, bird brain! Of course! It's a bit ironic that I didn't pick up on that.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
You're supposed only to post the proposed connector, not the group itself. But what the hell.
Bird is not a group-of-three connection.
Neither's liturgical.
Last edited by MarkBastable; 11-30-2011 at 02:47 AM.
I have 2 groups of 5 at the moment.
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Seeing it was wrong I can reveal- Pig pen, Pig iron, and Pig ignorant I had never heard of Pig Latin.Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
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See, the problem I always have with setting problems here is that if they're solved quickly I think, "Damn, shouldn't have made it so easy", and if they take a while I think, "Damn, the problem is probably badly set up."
The conversation at the moment is making think that 'free' was a bad clue - not attached sufficiently strongly to the word it's supposed to go with. So I'm going to make a small change to the problem....
Substitute 'cousin' for 'free'.....
Last edited by MarkBastable; 11-30-2011 at 02:43 AM.
This puzzle is firing on all cylinders. People are trying, for God's sake. If we each come up with three groups of five, and they're all different, imagine the fun we'll have paring them down together.
EDIT: "Liturgical" is out of the question, I guess?
Last edited by billl; 11-30-2011 at 02:44 AM.
Yeah. Should have said that. Have edited prior post to do so.
Evernay eardhay ofhay igpay atinlay? Aybemay stihay nahay ericanamay ingthay.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
Here's a little side question, the answer to which I haven't verified but which sounds true. (In other words, I'd like it to be.)
Only one fully-functional spoken language was invented in the twentieth century. What was it? (And it's not Esperanto.)
gotta be Klingon, right?
To be, or not to be...
Yeah - isn't that brilliant?
What the ****
I saw a dictionary on sale recently--no way am I going to learn the language, but I still think I should've picked it up, oh well.
Two Things:
1) I'm still wondering if there's a rule about word position. For example, could "bird" form a group including both "bird brain" and "early bird"?
2) Is "Country" responsible for the group of three?
Yes.
And yes. (Smattering of applause.)
So - if 'country' is the group of three connector, what are the other three connectors for the groups of four?
Last edited by MarkBastable; 12-01-2011 at 08:35 AM.
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