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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 16, 2017 21:54:34 GMT
BATouttaheckThe puzzle was attributed to George Bernard Shaw.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 16, 2017 21:58:44 GMT
aha. Thanks again. The valuable stuff one can learn around here. Never know when it just might come in handy. tarathian123
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 16, 2017 22:55:35 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 16, 2017 23:01:49 GMT
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 16, 2017 23:04:58 GMT
Nalkarj --- Correct. Just testing to see if you remembered your BODMAS.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 16, 2017 23:28:15 GMT
tarathian123um 5 Where's the trick ? I know there has to be one.
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 16, 2017 23:34:25 GMT
BATouttaheck --- No trick. Correct. Just testing out BODMAS. I came across this puzzle which claimed that 58% of those who tried it, got it wrong. False claim methinks.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 16, 2017 23:38:17 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 1:00:56 GMT
Just got a reply back from St. Louis. As far as he's aware, apart from colons used singly to denote ratios, neither they nor question marks have any significance in maths. Nor, as depicted in the puzzle, in computer programming, nor any codes he has come across. He's as stumped as we are. Well, then! Too bad--I would have thought it was something mathematical. I thought I exhausted every possible meaning to the : symbol, but I guess I hadn't. I hope the solution is indeed an "aha, of course!" moment, as Bat suggested, and not a wind-up. I would be very disappointed if it is. Then again, Pete did create an ingenious puzzle here, so he certainly has the skill and mind for creating brilliant, seemingly insoluble puzzles. Now, if only brimfin were still here...
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 17, 2017 1:54:15 GMT
Has anyone come across a 16-dot domino card? I'm stumped. That's all I have left!
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 2:05:29 GMT
Has anyone come across a 16-dot domino card? I'm stumped. That's all I have left! Hah! Your question, though, reminded me of this (the sort of puzzle that I can never do), but I guess that can't be it...
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 2:14:56 GMT
Has anyone come across a 16-dot domino card? I'm stumped. That's all I have left! Now, could one take the domino with six pips on each end and then four pips on each end and put them together? Wow, I can't believe we're seriously discussing this!
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 17, 2017 2:29:24 GMT
I've checked music, maths, astrology, astronomy, alchemy, umpteen codes, puzzles galore, Braille, geometry, biology, physics, chemistry, foreign languages, religions and symbols from the Aztecs to Zoroastrians, and all the modern signs and symbols too. I search no more! I'm done! It's beaten me. Bwaaaahhhh!!!! : I shall return to my book..."Lobotomy for Beginners".
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 2:50:17 GMT
tarathian123I've done the same, and that makes me feel like my own character (Geoffrey Lord, that is). Well, at least we've broadened our intellects... Hey, have you another copy of Lobotomy for Beginners that you can send me?
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 17, 2017 2:56:55 GMT
Nalkarj "copy of Lobotomy for Beginners" 'Fraid not. Promised my ex-keeper I'd send it back to the asylum.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 3:17:05 GMT
By the way, tarathian123, have you by any chance read Borges's anti-detective story "Death and the Compass"? (Frequently anthologized, and Borges is one of my favorite authors of all time.) Borges's focus on the Kabbalah rather reminds me of all this we've been discussing, for some reason.
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 17, 2017 3:25:50 GMT
Nalkarj --- No, haven't read any of Borges's work. Except on computer I read very little these days. Prefer audiobooks. I'll check him out.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 15:23:17 GMT
tarathian123 and BATouttaheckI've posted the puzzle here. Someone suggested that it might be a rebus; I hadn't known what it was called, but I think we've gone through the meaning. Just thought I'd let you both know.
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 17, 2017 15:57:12 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 17, 2017 16:07:05 GMT
Well, I have a few more hits than you do: one of the members there said he had a solution, in Braille, for us. I told him that we've done it in Braille, but he said he has another solution.
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