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[mith]

Puzzle link

[Timo_Tuokkola]

How about a hint? I can't even figure out where to start on this one.

[Kd]

I can get some of the clues... have no idea what they mean yet.

Famous Red wearable: I'm guessing these are The Red Shoes
Chromosome partitioning process: Is this mitosis/meiosis? I can never get the difference between those 2...
Reason Ranger is not Lone: He had Tonto, right?
Bird that is no more: Dodo
BooBoo's bosom buddy: Yogi
BooBoo's bosom buddy's basket: Picnic
Thin translucent paper: Tracing paper?
Unsainted Beatle: Ringo But Saint Ringo sounds cool...
Jackie O hat style: Pillbox

Anyone got any more?

[Timo_Tuokkola]

Noted magic dragon behavior->frolicking?
Roosevelt contracted this->polio?
picture font->wingdings?
infamous atoll->Bikini?
when toves gyre->"'twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe:"?

[casinopete]

Gin buddy = tonic?
What a Sgt doesn't have = commission = comm?
Pole or missionary = position
Picture font = Wingdings?
When toves gyre = brillig

bloody simultaneity

[This message has been edited by casinopete (edited 04-16-2003 10:53 AM).]

[Chuck]

The noted magic dragon could be Puff, from Puff, the Magic Dragon. What were his activities in the song?

[casinopete]

Puff the Magic Dragon
lived by the sea
and frolicked in the Autumn mist
in a land called. . . Honnalee?

"frolicked" is probably pretty strong

[The Cruciverbalist]

Bond type - Ionic? Covalent? Common? Mutual?

[Quailman]

Bond type: Convertible?
‘Husker Frank: Osborne?
Top beef cut: Sirloin?
Thin translucent paper: Onionskin




[This message has been edited by Quailman (edited 04-16-2003 01:33 PM).]

[roley]

Thlayli: Bigwig

[Quailman]

First word of Miller's tale: Whilom

[roley]

Profession where stupidity is not a handicap: comic

[casinopete]

I think "fool" might be slightly stronger for the profession. Far from definite, though.

[Quailman]

And here I was thinking fashion model.

[casinopete]

Wacky helmet material = glue

[Timo_Tuokkola]

Pope, Mercurius->pope John II
Hidebound man or old bone->Fossil
Artis Leon Ivey, Jr.->Coolio


[This message has been edited by Timo_Tuokkola (edited 04-16-2003 03:08 PM).]

[Quailman]

Like Seneca: Stoic

1.Stoic/Shoes/Simplified speech

2 John II/Mitosis?/Tonto

3 Frolicking/Prolific/Bigwig

4 Tonic/Prince/Solomon

5 Commission/Mimic/Solid

6 Profession where stupidity is not a handicap/Dodo/Convertible

7 Whilom/Glue/Polio

8 Yogi/Picnic/Onionskin

9 Position/Wingdings/Ringo

10 Postmaster or Surgeon/Pillbox/Fossil

11 Solich/Sirloin/Bikini

12 Roisterous punk genre/Brillig/Coolio

BTW, I didn't know any of the Beatles were Saints, though three were knighted.



[This message has been edited by Quailman (edited 04-16-2003 07:41 PM).]

[casinopete]

not the Beatles themselves, just their names: Saint John, Saint George, and Saint Paul

[roley]

fruitful: prolific
One after David: Solomon
Nethack "m": mimic
Ice, but not steam: solid
I see (s)topmeJunior, after doing some conversions

[nilkah]

red wearable-hood
simplified speech-slang?

im guessing but i think u find the one out of the three thats diffrent and maybe form a place out of those

[One Skunk Todd]

Type of Army-less general could be Surgeon or Postmaster.

[El Camino]

For 11, "'Husker Frank" is NOT Osborne (He was Tom Osborne). The answer should be Solich (Frank Solich succeeded Osborne).

-El Camino

[Quailman]

bah! I root for the Buffalos anyway.

[El Camino]

I can't stand Nebraska...but I do know college football.

GO ILLINI!!!

[pingus_dolphin]

Is this the puzzle dedicated to Chuck?

[roley]

I'll set a course for: Io, which is 'Jupiter's moon', an anagram of 'Stop me Junior'. I didn't get all the words, just enough to figure out the solution. If you take the i's and o's to represent 1's and 0's the resulting binary numbers correspond to ASCII codes for 'Stop me Junior'.

Some of the missing ones I guess are: Simplified speech = pidgin, Myshkin = idiot, Wacky helmet material = foil, Type of army-less general = solicitor, Roisterous punk genre = oi.

Great puzzle!

[Timo_Tuokkola]

I think that's got it. The words I've got all seem to fit this solution quite well, but did anyone figure out the first word in numbers 1, 6 and 12? based on roley's logic, Stoic and Fool don't work.

(Nice work Roley, I never would have thought to look for the answer that way!)

[ZutAlors!]

roley's right on all counts, with one minor exception. To answer your question, Timo:
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1. "Stoic" is OK, but "shoes" is not: nilkah was closer, with "riding hood" being the correct answer.
6. The profession in question is "politics". Comes from a quote by Napoleon; Google on "stupidity is not a handicap".
6. "Convertible" is also wrong; it should be "ionic"
7. You'll note that "whilhom" has the vowels backwards. The clue was tricky here: it's "First word of Miller’s tales", not "First word of Miller’s tale". Henry Miller wrote Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. To round out, and give the correct number of vowels, the helmet material was "tinfoil"
Everything else is correct between Quailman and roley.
Nicely enough, as roley showed, you don't necessarily need to get all the clues correct to get through the next step.

[referee]

And why exactly this one out of the dozen it has?

[The Cruciverbalist]

Seems appropriate; I's and O's were what this puzzle was all about.

[Nienscecco]

Wow Roley, you're a Ninja! I would never have thought of this "decoding" method. Just wanted to say congratulations

One question however? Where should we go? How does "Stop me junior" indicate a location?

[The Cruciverbalist]

It anagrams to "Jupiter's moon". Since I's and O's play a big role in this puzzle, Io seems to be the best choice.

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[greekgeek]

Jupiter has more than one moon.

[Quailman]

Yes, indeed it does. But as was pointed out in the previous post, this whole puzzle was based on patterns of I's and O's, though you had to interpret them as ones and zeros. combining the clues "Jupiter's Moon" and the I-O pattern leads you to only one of Jupiter's 60 or so moons. That is Io, as seen in this photo from Astronomy Picture of the Day:


Io is the body in the foreground that is casting a shadow on the upper atmosphere of Jupiter.

[Robert911]

Whew, thanks for the picture Quailman, that helped solve the puzzle =) It was a pretty cool picture, though.