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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 23:31:32 GMT
hand - take off the end "d", becomes "han" , in effect "endless" hand is han Ah, I get it! Excellent.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 18, 2017 0:58:12 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 18, 2017 2:19:45 GMT
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 18, 2017 3:24:33 GMT
Nalkarj ---- "That that is" - Correct! Wow! You guys have been busy while I've been away. So the soution was maths signs after all. The spacing was the key.
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 18, 2017 4:00:34 GMT
Nalkarj --- “The Unhinged Man” Knowing your "obsession" with the ABCs, I'm making a wild stab at this. Forgetting the names of birds (a red heron?) I go to the given names... William = W Edgar = E Terence = T * Norman = N Sam = S Out of that we get the cardinal points North East West South from which is derived the word NEWS. Lord was probably pointed to it by the name Cardinal. The unhinged one (i.e. unused) is Terence.* Am I correct or way off the mark?
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Post by soullimbo on Jun 18, 2017 6:47:03 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! - El Dorado - Solved by Salzmank 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 tarathian123 on Jun 18, 2017 8:02:38 GMT
soullimbo#1 - Haven't a clue #3 - Not into film noir #9 - Superheroes bore me. As all the others have been solved that kinda lets me out of this one.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 18, 2017 10:57:05 GMT
Nalkarj --- “The Unhinged Man” Knowing your "obsession" with the ABCs, I'm making a wild stab at this. Forgetting the names of birds (a red heron?) I go to the given names... William = W Edgar = E Terence = T * Norman = N Sam = S Out of that we get the cardinal points North East West South from which is derived the word NEWS. Lord was probably pointed to it by the name Cardinal. The unhinged one (i.e. unused) is Terence.* Am I correct or way off the mark? You must know my thinking by this point, because you got it in one--wow! Yes, and Geoff's original [false] solution identified Cardinal (coming from the Latin cardinalis--hinge) as the murderer, before he realized the killer was unhinged, not hinged. Excellent job! P.S. Now I feel that I have to back and refine my puzzle-plotting skills. Hmm...
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Post by Pete on Jun 18, 2017 11:50:40 GMT
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 18, 2017 12:54:48 GMT
Pete"Derived" also means deduced, and inferred. "News" was derived from the cardinal points in this instance, but not meaning that the original derivation of the word "News" was the points. NalkarjRe. “The Unhinged Man” Thanks. Does that make me an honorary member of "The Puzzlers"?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 18, 2017 13:37:23 GMT
NalkarjP.S. Now I feel that I have to back and refine my puzzle-plotting skills. Hmm... You mean make them even MORE DIFFICULT ? ARGH and whimper !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 18, 2017 13:39:23 GMT
tarathian123Forgetting the names of birds (a red heron?) GROAN !
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 18, 2017 13:41:38 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 18, 2017 14:04:49 GMT
Pete "Derived" also means deduced, and inferred. "News" was derived from the cardinal points in this instance, but not meaning that the original derivation of the word "News" was the points. Nalkarj Re. “The Unhinged Man” Thanks. Does that make me an honorary member of "The Puzzlers"? Pete News, as a word, wasn't really the solution--the four cardinal directions are. Then you see that only one name doesn't fit the pattern, and it therefore is the only one that is not "hinged" (a.k.a. "pivotal"--or "cardinal").
tarathian123 , The Puzzlers are select and secretive. We are very serious too. (Ahem...) If I made you an honorary member, Lee Shapiro's eyes would pop out of his skull. You must take the entrance examination, as all members do, but we've changed it since Mr. Lord's time. Now, you must come to New York City and knock on the third door on the first street nearest where you arrive. Then you will be blindfolded, put in a potato sack, and brought to an undisclosed location, where we will ask you puzzle after puzzle. A difficult and life-threatening initiation. Then you may join... Seriously, I was originally intending on basing the members on each of us, but I thought that might make it too gimmicky.
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 18, 2017 14:23:07 GMT
Nalkarj~~~"Now, you must come to New York City and knock on the third door on the first street nearest where you arrive."~~~ Wot no internet?
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 19, 2017 0:43:31 GMT
soullimbo I have utterly no idea what #s 1, 3, and 9 can be. So, if you don't mind, can you give one hint for each of them? (Even Clinton Greene gave extra hints!--props to anyone who picks up on that reference ). For example, for #3, it can be as simple as telling us if the title of the French film noir is the French or the English title.
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 19, 2017 2:54:18 GMT
Nalkarj , BATouttaheck , Pete , soullimbo, et al... Here's one for Geoff Lord to solve: Locked Store Room The door of your storeroom is locked with a certain kind of padlock that can be closed without a key but requires a key to open which you own and there is no duplicate key. You decide to move your old stuff to the storeroom. The door is the only means of entry and exit. After storing the things carefully, you lock it up again perfectly. The next day when you reopen the storeroom, a dead body is found inside it. The padlock on the door had not been tampered with. Since only you have the key to the storeroom and you live alone, the police suspect you as the murderer. You can’t understand anything when suddenly a thought strikes your mind. There is a possible way by which the dead body could have been placed there by someone else. Can you find that way so that you can tell the police and prove yourself to be innocent?
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 19, 2017 3:12:16 GMT
tarathian123 Hmm... This set-up rather reminds me of a Jonathan Creek episode (I think that was it). The first thought that comes to mind, as there are few details, is that the dead body was inside "your old stuff" [boxes, maybe?], which you were moving into the storeroom. You weren't looking inside the stuff, probably, but rather just moving it, so you could have moved the body inside without knowing it. Now for the numerous problems: it seems unlikely that you wouldn't look inside the boxes (if they were boxes) at all while moving it, you probably would have noticed the weight of a corpse, and there's no way that I can see that the corpse could have come out of the boxes during the night, which it had to do.
So, in other words, I'll give the puzzle a bit more thought! EDIT: Now I'm thinking that the solution has to do with the padlock that "...that can be closed without a key but requires a key to open..."
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 19, 2017 3:15:28 GMT
Nalkarj --- Yep a little more thought indeed.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 19, 2017 3:34:01 GMT
tarathian123I'm sure it's not something as easy as someone stole the key while you were sleeping, so I'll go ahead with this, even though I don't think it's the one you're going for... While you are inside the storeroom, the murderer enters your home and switches the lock (which is open at the time) with a padlock of his own that looks identical--but to which he has the key. Crucially, he keeps your padlock open, as he does not have the key for it and thus cannot open it once it's closed. While you're asleep again that night, he re-enters your home, opens the padlock (his padlock) with his key, deposits the body inside the storeroom, and finally locks the door again with your padlock, which he has brought along with him.
Thus the room is sealed up from the inside and the padlock undisturbed.
This solution reminds me of Dial M for Murder, now that I think of it...
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