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    ooooh! Y-

    No, I'm sorry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iamnobody View Post
    My wild guess is...water.
    I repeat--this is NOT the group of three, but a great guess, nonetheless.

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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."
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    I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.

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    I have water as a four, I also have a couple of other "groups", but until you get them all you know they're probably not quite right.
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    Sorry, Juniper and iamnobody!

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    perhaps "angle" is a three (though it could be a four if wide goes with...)
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    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    perhaps "angle" is a three (though it could be a four if wide goes with...)
    not a three!

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    OK, HERE IS A LAME HINT, NOT REALLY A HINT EVEN, JUST CLEANING UP AND CLARIFYING:

    No one has guessed the "group of three", however two of the "groups of four" have been discovered. Mark was wrong about "sea", but iamnobody (confirmed by Mick) was right about "water". Mick got the one I thought would be toughest: "angle".

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    Ok another guess, "World" but that would leave a very dispirate last group.
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    OH! So very close, but... No, I'm sorry, Mick--not a three!

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    Was he REALLY close, or are you just saying that to give us false hope?
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    "Star Wars--A New Hope"... Is that the sort of clue you are looking for, Juniper? Then, yes, it was that close when he guessed "world".

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    Quote Originally Posted by billl View Post
    OK, same type of puzzle that Mark did: These words can be grouped together (based on a shared connection to some other term, that you must discover for each group) in three groups of four, and one group of three.

    We'll begin by looking for the group of three, and see who finds it first.

    way, right, record, reverse
    rain, wide, change, new
    level, under, birth, real
    log, camera, sesame



    (NOTE: I've never made one of these before. Don't know about pitfalls, or what might be too hard... Is it really easy to make them near-impossible/unfair? Because I was shooting for something pretty difficult.)
    Ok time to share I think.

    WATER. way, level, birth, under.
    ANGLE. right, reverse, wide, camera.

    perhaps someone has different groups?

    then, WORLD, (wrong but close) real, new, record,

    That leaves. sesame, rain, change, and log. HOWEVER - my groups obviously have mistakes in them, so what has anybody else got?

    Am I right in thinking "Sesame" can only have - open, close, bun, street or seed.

    And "Log" can't have too many connections either -jam, captain's, pine, split, book, ship's, yule, before we delve in to the scatalogical.

    EDIT of course. RAIN water I'm an idiot!
    Last edited by prendrelemick; 12-07-2011 at 04:57 AM.
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    I was pretty sure about 'world' too.

    Incidentally, 'log' could be part of the 'water' group, which would free up one of those. I'd take 'birth' out.

    And, while I'm at it, I've got a two-er - sesame oil, oil change. If I knew more about cars, I could convince myself that what a dipstick does is check the oil level. Which, if 'log' went with 'water' would give


    oil sesame, change, level
    angle camera reverse right wide
    water log rain, under, birth



    and a remaining four of:

    way, record, new, real


    which brings us back to 'world', if we can offload 'way' into the probably-not-oil group.



    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    Ok time to share I think.

    WATER. way, level, birth, under.
    ANGLE. right, reverse, wide, camera.

    perhaps someone has different groups?

    then, WORLD, (wrong but close) real, new, record,

    That leaves. sesame, rain, change, and log. HOWEVER - my groups obviously have mistakes in them, so what has anybody else got?

    Am I right in thinking "Sesame" can only have - open, close, bun, street or seed.

    And "Log" can't have too many connections either -jam, captain's, pine, split, book, ship's, yule, before we delve in to the scatalogical.

    EDIT of course. RAIN water I'm an idiot!
    Last edited by MarkBastable; 12-07-2011 at 05:07 AM.

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