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Sipech
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British shipmates should be familiar with the concept, but for those of you further afield, let's explain the concepts.
Game 1: What is the connection between 4 apparently random clues?
Example:
a) Weight Watchers
b) Al Capone
c) Fourier transform
d) Pennine Way
Answer: they all contain numbers hidden within the words (8, 1, 4, 9)
Game 2: What comes next in the sequence?
Example:
a) George
b) Arthur
c) Philip
Answer: Charles - because they are the given names of Prince Charles, in reverse order.
*We'll skip the wall, I'm not sure I could do that on a forum, but you can play on the Only Connect website.*
Game 3: Missing vowels. Here, the vowels are taken out of a well phrase or saying (the category is given) and the consonants are squished up.
Example: What is this famous website?
SH PFF LS
These are all much better explained on the Wikipedia page.
Ship-specific rules: You can post up to one of each type of puzzle. Let people have a chance to answer, so don't give the answer away straight away, unless someone gets it right quickly.
No posting a new puzzle until the person who set the last one has given the answer (either because someone got it right, or everyone is hopelessly lost).
Got it?
I haven't given the answer to the last one, so I'll leave that for you as an easy starter.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Yippee! We love "Only Connect".
Answer = "Ship of Fools".
So what connects these?
Paris
Haffner
Linz
Jupiter.
And: what comes next in this list?
OKR = £60
TAI = £100
PM = £140
????
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Sipech
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Tut tut Baptist Trainfan. You clearly skipped over the bit that said 'No posting a new puzzle until the person who set the last one has given the answer '.
As it happens, you were right, so we'll let it pass for now.
Your 'what comes next' is BS = £180 (first of a group on the Monopoly board).
Not a clue about the other one.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Correct! (Old Kent Road, The Angel Islington, Pall Mall, Bow Street).
Any ideas for the other ones (they're the sort of things which are obvious, if you know them - there's no trickery involved)?
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ElaineC
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Mozart Symphonies?
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ElaineC
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Let's go for some Missing Vowels
Which Dickens novel?
LDCR STYS P
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ElaineC
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quote:
Originally posted by ElaineC:
Let's go for some Missing Vowels
Which Dickens novel?
LDCR STYS P
I really can't spell it should be
LDCR STYS HP
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jacobsen
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(The) old curiosity shop
[ 04. August 2015, 15:03: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
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ElaineC
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ooops - You're correct. I forgot the 'The'.
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jacobsen
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Let's stick with the missing vowels.
A novel of Wales.
HWG RNW SM YVL LY
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Leorning Cniht
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quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
Let's stick with the missing vowels.
A novel of Wales.
HWG RNW SM YVL LY
How green was my valley
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jacobsen
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Yes! Your call, LC.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Sipech
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*prods thread back to life*
Probably ought to have added in the OP that if the thread is left dormant for, say, 24 hours, you can post a new puzzle.
Let's see if this gets your gears whirring. What comes next in the sequence:
1. Skull
2. Crusade
3. Doom
4.
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marzipan
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Ark?
(Indiana Jones films in reverse order?)
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Now containing 50% less cheese
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Sipech
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Correct. Thought it was good until I saw it written down.
Your turn.
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jacobsen
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In the absence of any further contributions,what is the connection between the following;
Nails
Stords
Barleycorns
Racks
Horses
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Wet Kipper
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quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
Stords
is this a real thing ?
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jacobsen
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Sorry about the too many. Just count the first four.
Stords is/are real.
Would I cheat?
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Leorning Cniht
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They're all units of length?
Barleycorns (plus an offset) is the unit shoe size is measured in. A nail is a small unit of cloth length. Don't know the others.
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Sipech
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Are they all things that have heads that you wouldn't like to find in your bed?
Nail -pointy
Barleycorn - scratchy
Horse - Italian Job
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Ariel
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Is this about music?
Nail violin
Barleycorn concertina
Racks for music
Horse head fiddle
... still no idea what a stord is though ...
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Wet Kipper
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quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
Sorry about the too many. Just count the first four.
Stords is/are real.
Would I cheat?
I wasn't thinking you were cheating, i was just wondering if it was a typo
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kingsfold
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Stord sounds Scandinavian....
Islands?
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Piglet
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Stord is indeed an island, off the coast of Norway; I've been there. ![[Smile]](smile.gif) Can't do a Wiki link, as the heading has brackets. Google Stord (island).
No idea about the connection though.
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jacobsen
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quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
They're all units of length?
Barleycorns (plus an offset) is the unit shoe size is measured in. A nail is a small unit of cloth length. Don't know the others.
You got it! they are all units of length. Stord is found in John Evelyn's 17thC guide to gardening
Directions for the gardiner* and other horticultural advice
* Evelyn's spelling, not mine.
A mile contains 88 stords
a nail is 2.5 inches.
But I do like Ariel's suggestion, which is plausible.
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Sipech
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*bump*
Here's some missing vowels. The following are all London underground stations.
S TNS QR
TR NPKL N
LG HTN
KWD
RD NGVL LY
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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I can do all but one of those immediately:
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Turnpike Lane
Loughton
Oakwood
Roding Valley
I'm halfway there on the first one, but I need to go out.
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Albertus
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Euston Square!
But, Curiosity...I think this is your win as you did all the rest.
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Curiosity killed ...
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What connects the following:
Feather
Herringbone
Fly
Chain?
I got the Square fast and then failed to work out the first bit. Very remiss of me as I like the Wellcome Trust Museum, which is nearby. I tend to walk around the middle of London rather than use the tube and none of my usual routes goes through Euston Square.
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kingsfold
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Those all sound like embroidery stitches, I think
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kingsfold
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What links:
1) Haluin
2) Rhun
3) Columbanus
4) Ruald
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And in that light of life I'll walk 'til travelling days are done
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Baptist Trainfan
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Characters in "Brother Cadfael" novels?
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kingsfold
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Indeed - over to you.
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And in that light of life I'll walk 'til travelling days are done
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jacobsen
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It's more than 24 hours, so I will continue.
What is the connection between the following? Two facts.
Isabella
Lydia
Elizabeth
Mary
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Ariel
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I suspect a Jane Austen connection but I don't know what, exactly.
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Ariel
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I'd wondered about queens but Lydia didn't fit into the vaguely 15th century era I had in mind.
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jacobsen
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I'll give it to Ariel. These are all characters in JA's novels, but they are the sisters of the heroines.
Isabella is Emma Woodhouse's sister.(Emma)
Lydia is Lizzie and Jane Bennett's sister.(Pride and Prejudice)
Mary and Elizabeth are Anne Elliott's sisters.{Persuasion)
Over to you, Ariel
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Ariel
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Thanks! OK, here goes...
What's the connection between these four?
Bizet
Oxford
Wensleydale
Texel
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Albertus
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Sheep breeds, I think?
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Albertus
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Sorry to get that so quickly- lucky guess!
Let's have a picture round;
This and this and this and this.
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Banner Lady
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Let's see...black & white...no. They are all whistlers? Maybe.
But they could certainly all pull a crowd!
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Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.
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Albertus
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I'm sure they could, but that wasn't what I was thinking of!
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Ariel
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I'd wondered if it was a "name" question as three out of the four are known by names other than their birth names, but I don't think the fourth does fit into that.
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