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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 19:41:09 GMT
Pete , you're back?! Hope everything went well for you at the hospital. I hate to ask, but we're just about stumped on your puzzle. Nothing we've said is any closer? Pete?
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 20:03:39 GMT
And, just like that, Pete is gone again like a thief in the night...
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 17, 2017 20:04:05 GMT
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Post by Pete on Jun 17, 2017 20:09:44 GMT
Pete , you're back?! Hope everything went well for you at the hospital. I hate to ask, but we're just about stumped on your puzzle. Nothing we've said is any closer? Pete ? Everything fine at the hospital. Just a routine matter. I think you're getting close to an answer on the dots question.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 17, 2017 20:24:18 GMT
PeteI think you're getting close to an answer on the dots question. I think that you are the only one who thinks anyone is getting close to an answer on the dots question. and Welcome back !
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 20:50:15 GMT
Well, I'll give another "in the meantime" puzzle, this a sequel to "Color Scheme":
“The Unhinged Man”
“A puzzle for you, Mr. Lord,” said Alice Liddel, the famed poetess.
The Puzzlers, that select and secretive organization, was having its monthly meeting.
Geoffrey Lord, the detective-story writer, sighed, put down his magazine, removed his spectacles, and polished them with a handkerchief. “Already?” he murmured.
“Already,” snapped Lee Shapiro, the attorney. “Another test of wits—that ‘every color on the canvas’ business was a giveaway.”
“It’s your turn to provide us with a puzzle next week,” Sidney Malkin, the stockbroker, explained.
Prof. Alan Tewksbury, the Classics professor at Columbia, was as taciturn and aloof as usual.
“Ready when you are,” Mr. Lord said cheerfully.
Shapiro started: “There’s an undercover detective investigating an international oil smuggling ring…”
“Sounds like a pulp story to me,” Geoff put in.
“Let me finish, Lord! The police find him a few days later, floating in the East River—“
“Doesn’t he know it’s polluted?”
“—dead, of course. Shot. Now, he’s got a note in his pocket—soaked, but the police are able to make it out. Obviously the killer neglected to go through the detective’s pockets.”
“Awfully obliging of him.”
Mr. Shapiro’s face looked a bit like a tomato, so Miss Liddel did him the favor of picking up the slack: “Please, Mr. Lord. There are five suspects for the identity of the murderer—five criminals—”
“Hitmen,” Shapiro snapped.
“I believe that’s the term,” said Miss Liddel, blushing. “Well, they’re the five criminals whom the smuggling ring usually uses: William Cardinal, Edgar Swann, Terence Crane, Norman Crowley, and Sam Ravenwood. Now, the note in the detective’s pocket has these five names on it and then follows it up with this: ‘I now know that the killer is the unhinged man.’
“That’s your question, then, Mr. Lord: which of these five is the ‘unhinged man’—the detective’s murderer?”
“First things first,” Mr. Lord murmured. “None of the suspects was—er—crazy, I suppose? Unhinged as the word is most often used?”
“Not any more than any other hitman” came the response (from Shapiro, if I’m not mistaken).
“And I suppose the detective was a wordsmith?”
“You can say that,” Malkin said, nodding.
“Hm. Well, you will permit me to write those volucrine names down, won’t you?”
“Volucrine, you said, Lord?” muttered Prof. Tewksbury, rising from his chair.
“Indeed, Professor—same trick you played with the names last time, except referring to birds rather than the alphabet. The solution has nothing to do with names—well, except for one name.”
“Ah,” said the Professor, who, seeming slightly annoyed, fell back in his seat.
“It helps,” said Mr. Lord cheerfully, after having written them down, “if you know the derivation of one word in particular. And that one word is…”
He stopped suddenly, all the cheer leaving his face. “I’m a fool. Damn! Apologies, Miss Liddel. Yes,” he snapped, looking at a certain member of the Puzzlers, “you clever devil, you clever devil…”
To which member was Geoffrey Lord referring?
What was the word?
What was the solution?
How did Geoffrey Lord know?
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 21:34:02 GMT
Well, in the meantime, I'll post these few....how shall I put it, cryptic puzzles/clues. Each one should lead you to a famous movie title. 1. 80 Ecological chains? 2. I'm not a pervert, I got to great lengths to hide this 50s classic! 3. Mix idle feline eats in German for French film noir 4. John Wayne stood a rod length away from it? No, but looking back helps! 5. Endless appendage with another appendage gives you a superhero on the mend 6. Preset eight jumbles for magical tour de force 7. President in what must go on 8. rick's famous spanish white house? 9. Famous spot in an advance ? This superhero doesn't make it 10. Near stop? Quite the opposite for this 90s thriller Hmm... Thanks for these, Soullimbo. Let me see if I can try my hand at them. (I'm not very good, usually.) 8 is Casablanca.
6 is The Prestige
For 7, what must go on is the show, but I don't see where a president fits in. Oh--The Truman Show!
Is 2 Rebel Without a Cause?
I'll try again later if you don't mind.
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Post by soullimbo on Jun 17, 2017 21:42:29 GMT
Well, in the meantime, I'll post these few....how shall I put it, cryptic puzzles/clues. Each one should lead you to a famous movie title. 1. 80 Ecological chains? 2. I'm not a pervert, I got to great lengths to hide this 50s classic! 3. Mix idle feline eats in German for French film noir 4. John Wayne stood a rod length away from it? No, but looking back helps! 5. Endless appendage with another appendage gives you a superhero on the mend 6. Preset eight jumbles for magical tour de force - The Prestige - SOLVED by Salzmank 7. President in what must go on - The Truman Show - SOLVED by Salzmank 8. rick's famous spanish white house? - Casablanca - SOLVED by Salzmank 9. Famous spot in an advance ? This superhero doesn't make it 10. Near stop? Quite the opposite for this 90s thriller Read more: imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/20372/riddle-me-riddles-puzzles?page=29#ixzz4kIY50FNC
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Post by Pete on Jun 17, 2017 22:38:19 GMT
Nalkarj ---- The problem with "Clangorous Chimera's" Braille solution is that Braille letters aren't placed close together, but have spaces between them. Braille also wotks on a 3 and 4 rank system, not just on 2 ranks. I think Braille is a "red herring". Oh, I agree. By the way, have you seen the other solution? puzzling.stackexchange.com/a/52720/37675Interesting, but I don't think that's it either. One of the suggestions posted there is a millimetre away from correct. So close that I might as well call it right, and supply the missing part. A. I. Breveleri parses the question as :
The parsing is correct. But the solution to the question isn't nothing, it's "."
or, "four dots" is to "two dots" as "two dots" is to dot.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 22:43:31 GMT
Well, in the meantime, I'll post these few....how shall I put it, cryptic puzzles/clues. Each one should lead you to a famous movie title. 1. 80 Ecological chains? 2. I'm not a pervert, I got to great lengths to hide this 50s classic! 3. Mix idle feline eats in German for French film noir 4. John Wayne stood a rod length away from it? No, but looking back helps! 5. Endless appendage with another appendage gives you a superhero on the mend 6. Preset eight jumbles for magical tour de force - The Prestige - SOLVED by Salzmank 7. President in what must go on - The Truman Show - SOLVED by Salzmank 8. rick's famous spanish white house? - Casablanca - SOLVED by Salzmank 9. Famous spot in an advance ? This superhero doesn't make it 10. Near stop? Quite the opposite for this 90s thriller Read more: imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/20372/riddle-me-riddles-puzzles?page=29#ixzz4kIY50FNC2 is Vertigo. (I'm very annoyed with myself for not having seen that before.)
Is 3 Les diaboliques?
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Post by soullimbo on Jun 17, 2017 22:48:53 GMT
Well, in the meantime, I'll post these few....how shall I put it, cryptic puzzles/clues. Each one should lead you to a famous movie title. 1. 80 Ecological chains? 2. I'm not a pervert, I got to great lengths to hide this 50s classic! - Vertigo - Solved by Salzmank 3. Mix idle feline eats in German for French film noir 4. John Wayne stood a rod length away from it? No, but looking back helps! 5. Endless appendage with another appendage gives you a superhero on the mend 6. Preset eight jumbles for magical tour de force - The Prestige - SOLVED by Salzmank 7. President in what must go on - The Truman Show - SOLVED by Salzmank 8. rick's famous spanish white house? - Casablanca - SOLVED by Salzmank 9. Famous spot in an advance ? This superhero doesn't make it 10. Near stop? Quite the opposite for this 90s thriller
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 17, 2017 22:50:34 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 22:50:52 GMT
One of the suggestions posted there is a millimetre away from correct. So close that I might as well call it right, and supply the missing part. A. I. Breveleri parses the question as :
The parsing is correct. But the solution to the question isn't nothing, it's "."
or, "four dots" is to "two dots" as "two dots" is to dot. Ah. Well. Thank you for letting us know, Pete. We were as stumped as humanly possible. I must say I never would have guessed that and never would have gotten it, as I can't see how one can guess it without knowing that some colons are set apart and some are not (but apparently someone can, as A.I. Breveleri did!). Still, though, an ingenious puzzle.
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Post by soullimbo on Jun 17, 2017 22:52:08 GMT
that's incorrect but I can see why you would guess that !
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Post by Pete on Jun 17, 2017 22:54:58 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 22:58:06 GMT
By the way, tarathian123 , Pete 's puzzle so took my attention that I forgot this: That that is is that that is. That that is not is that that is not. Is that it? It is. Is that it? Finally? I made a few punctuation changes, as you recommended.
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Post by soullimbo on Jun 17, 2017 23:00:27 GMT
Well, in the meantime, I'll post these few....how shall I put it, cryptic puzzles/clues. Each one should lead you to a famous movie title. 1. 80 Ecological chains? 2. I'm not a pervert, I got to great lengths to hide this 50s classic! - Vertigo - Solved by Salzmank 3. Mix idle feline eats in German for French film noir 4. John Wayne stood a rod length away from it? No, but looking back helps! 5. Endless appendage with another appendage gives you a superhero on the mend - Hancock - Solved by Pete 6. Preset eight jumbles for magical tour de force - The Prestige - SOLVED by Salzmank 7. President in what must go on - The Truman Show - SOLVED by Salzmank 8. rick's famous spanish white house? - Casablanca - SOLVED by Salzmank 9. Famous spot in an advance ? This superhero doesn't make it 10. Near stop? Quite the opposite for this 90s thriller - Fargo - Solved by Pete
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 23:02:11 GMT
soullimbo and PeteForgive my foolishness, but I still can't understand Hancock. I understand the second part, actually ( indeed!) , but why is a hand (which I suppose is the first part) an "endless" appendage?
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Post by soullimbo on Jun 17, 2017 23:09:20 GMT
hand - take off the end "d", becomes "han" , in effect "endless" hand is han
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Post by Pete on Jun 17, 2017 23:09:20 GMT
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