Top GL'er FInale: Scurra

[MNOWAX]

http://www.scurra.com/labyrinth/final/01.pdf

http://www.scurra.com/labyrinth/final/02-03-04.pdf

http://www.scurra.com/labyrinth/final/05.pdf

http://www.scurra.com/labyrinth/final/06-07.pdf

http://www.scurra.com/labyrinth/final/08-09.pdf

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[Scurra]

For some reasons, MNOWAX hasn't included the introduction or conclusion to my set - and they are relevant. So I'm going to repeat the whole thing here.
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A number of people complained that in some of my earlier entries for this competition it was too difficult to figure out what to do. I don't think you'll have the same problems with these.

http://www.scurra.com/labyrinth/final/01.pdf (~600k)
http://www.scurra.com/labyrinth/final/02-03-04.pdf (~600k)
http://www.scurra.com/labyrinth/final/05.pdf (~600k)
http://www.scurra.com/labyrinth/final/06-07.pdf (~600k)
http://www.scurra.com/labyrinth/final/08-09.pdf (~60k)

Simply put the answers in their most successful order, and you will discover my motto for this contest.
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[ralphmerridew]

Where can people interested in teaming up work? Do we just post here?

[ralphmerridew]

My progress:
page 3: Each image has a letter in morse code. Combined they spell "OUTOF".
page 2: Reflecting and arranging the images gives:

Code:

FROM TYPE  *  TO CGI       grendel  1 elephantinehelp       seinfeld       fishhunting  2    ogrefindsheir  3      rodentcooks        scaryedifice  lewistimetravels   visitsnorthpole      thefallingsky  4     familyofheroes (star represents the down arrow) Each line clues a CGI film with a name the same length as the clue:  FROM TYPE  *  TO CGI       BEOWULF  1 HORTONHEARSAWHO       BEEMOVIE       FINDINGNEMO  2    SHREKTHETHIRD  3      RATATOUILLE        MONSTERHOUSE  lewistimetravels   THEPOLAREXPRESS      CHICKENLITTLE  4     THEINCREDIBLES Indicated column spells frighte?plc If I enter the movie names in backwards, I get  FROM TYPE  *  TO CGI       FLUWOEB  1 elephantinehelp       EIVOMEEB       OMENGNIDNIF  2    DRIHTEHTKERHS  3      ELLIUOTATAR        ESUOHRETSNOM  lewistimetravels   SSERPXERALOPEHT      ELTTILNEKCIHC  4     SELBIDERCNIEHT The indicated column spells b?eihur?oed

[MNOWAX]

my apologies Scurra, i must not have copied them ver when i did the links. Sorry!
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[Oscar]

Set 1:
[forms the first verse of Jabberwocky with various letters missing.
These give the message: Topsy Turvy]

[GH]

It seems likely that "elephantinehelp" clues HORTONHEARSAWHO.

[ralphmerridew]

Re #9:
Actress Neuwirth == BEBE
Archbishop's ballet skirt?! == TUTU
Book by Michael Ende == MOMO
Not particularly good or bad == SOSO
Ran a Delivery Service == KIKI

If it weren't for the above pattern, I'd say
Roman goddess of the hearth == VESTA / HESTIA?

[Jack_Ian]

Re #9
COCO - 1882 Maupassant story
ZOZO - 2005 Swedish/Lebanese movie
BEBE - Actress Neuwirth
TUTU - Archbishop's ballet skirt?!
MOMO - Book by Michael Ende
???? - Chinese author of “Shops”
VAVA - Edvaldo Izídio Neto
JUJU - Fetish with magical power
PUPU - Hawaiian relish platter
???? - Late 1950's French music style
SOSO - Not particularly good or bad
???? - Pennsylvania food store chain
KIKI - Ran a Delivery Service
NENE - River in Northamptonshire, UK
CACA - Roman goddess of the hearth
LULU - Scottish singer of “Shout”
HAHA - Sunken fence
DEDE - The Tree Man of Java
RORO - Type of car ferry

[GH]

Hey, you added another answer while I was quoting you!

Also, is the French music movement DADA? Maybe not, since the date seems wrong.

[Jack_Ian]

Just added yet another one. I wondered about that nihilistic movement too. Not included in the list though as 50's seems very specific.

[ralphmerridew]

Re #9: There are 19 clues, the flavor test suggests some are missing, and all of them (except COCO & CACA) start with a different consonant. Currently missing are F, G, Q, W, X, Y.

[Quail*]

Guy de Maupassant wrote Coco in 1884. He released a short story called Madamoiselle Fifi in 1882. That would eliminate one of your duplicates.

Shops was written by XiXi.

When in Pennsylvania, I like to shop at Wawa

[ralphmerridew]

That leaves G, Q, and Y open.

[Jack_Ian]

This is probably the French Music Style.

[Quail*]

I kept coming back to Gigi, the 1958 film with Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier. It was just a musical, though - not a music style.

So what would "complete the set"? GQ, the men's fashion magazine?

[ralphmerridew]

#8:
Kieron ??
Catawba ??
Sharples RAY
contendre NOLO
Jacques ??
"Hawkeye" IOWA
se.cx GOAT
Neither NOR
-bench ??
Pruritus ??

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Gearloose GYRO
cookie ??
/ tidy ??
enders ??
Jude LAW
Much ADO
Woodwind OBOE
-Morpork ANKH
True GRIT
Jeanne d' ARC

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Code:

G . . . .Y.. ....  R RAY . NOLO .A..   A   D  IOWA GOAT  B NOR . .O.K I...  E H T .

Reading the border gives G.....T..THE.IN.

[Oscar]

#8
Kieron Dyer
Catawba Esaw
Ena Sharples
Jacques Tati
Work-bench
Oreo cookie
Neat/tidy
Eastenders
Pruritus itch

[Quail*]

bah!

In previewing for the fifth time while trying to get the format to work, I see that Oscar snaked me.

[Quail*]

BTW, you missed ENA Sharlpes.

[Oscar]

Sorry, Quail!
(I only previewed 4 times, and then edited afterwards!)
Twice!!

[Oscar]

And in the light of the answers so far it's not a surprise to find that for #3:
The initials across the top spell AFRICA, giving OUT OF AFRICA
And that suggests the answer to #9 will be GIGI
Hmm... wonder if my name has anything to do with this?

[ralphmerridew]

Summary:
1: TOPSY TURVY
2: MONSTERS, INC.
3: OUT OF AFRICA
4: (first round results)
5: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
6: (movie images)
7: (cryptic, blue hat)
8: GONE WITH THE WIND
9: GIGI

[Oscar]

I suspect that it's down to number of Oscars won.
GIGI won 9
GONE WITH THE WIND 8
OUT OF AFRICA 7
TOPSY TURVY 2
Reading the last letters gives I DA----Y-
or 1st 2nd 3rd etc gives GOT----R-

[ralphmerridew]

On #6:
Top right: New York Minute && ??

Left: Streets of San Francisco && ??

Lower right: Shakespeare in Love && ??

Whoopi & Drew: Boys on the Side
Ali & Ryan: Love Story (1970)
Rosario & Valeria: Side Streets
Selma & Paul: Storytelling
Stan & Oliver: (Many, but Way Out West fits others)
Frank & Gian: West New York

Way out West - West New York - New York Minute
Boys on the Side - Side Streets - Streets of San Francisco
Shakespeare in Love - Love Story - Story Telling

Any idea on other three films?

[ralphmerridew]

On #5:
Crossing at the Threshold of Hope (Pope John Paul II)
Brandenburg Concerto V (J. S. Bach)
Long Walk to Freedom (Nelson Mandela)
First Folio (William Shakespeare)
The Road Ahead (Bill Gates)

Can't identify the others.

[GH]

Back on #9, I think lewistimetravels is a clue for MEETTHEROBINSONS.

FRIGHTENPLC ??

[ralphmerridew]

On #5: Grid 1 is
TWOEIG
HTEENF
IFTEEN
ELEVEN

2 18 15 11 (BROK)

Grid 2 is by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_maritime_signal_flags
5 2 1 3 (EBAC)

Grid 5 shows time 9:14 (IN)

I don't know what the other two are, but I'd be astonished if it didn't clue Brokeback Mountain (3 Oscars)

[ralphmerridew]

FRIGHTEN PLC (publicly limited company?) probably clues MONSTERS, INC (1 oscar)

[Oscar]

Can't believe we're not looking for West Side Story (10 Oscars) in #6. This would give:
West side story
gIgi
goNe with the wind
out Of africa
----R-etc (4,5,6 Oscars)
brokeBack mountain
topsytUrvy
monsterS inc
--------T-etc (0 Oscars)
WIN OR BUST?

[ralphmerridew]

Oscar's idea gave me two:
??? Way - Way out West - West New York - New York Minute
The Lost Boys - Boys on the Side - Side Streets - Streets of San Francisco
Shakespeare in Love - Love Story - Story Telling - Telling Nicholas

[Quail*]

The Gene Hackman pic is No Way Out

[Oscar]

#7 is: UNFORGIVEN (4 Oscars)
Sneaky one, Scurra!
For #5 I can only add that the second musical snatch looks like Beethoven's Fifth

[ralphmerridew]

Re #4:
First Folio (William Shakespeare)
Crossing at the Threshold of Hope (Pope John Paul II)
The Road Ahead (William Henry Gates III)
???
Brandenburg Concerto V (J. S. Bach)
???
???
???
???

Long Walk to Freedom (Nelson Mandela)

http://www.glpics.com/ralphmerridew/scurra-4.png

[Scurra]

Can I head you off there - you're making that far too complicated. It's a brilliant theory though!

(You may find it helpful to refer to the solution of the original puzzle:
http://www.scurra.com/labyrinth/scurra-round04-solution.pdf)
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[Oscar]

I've only just read ralphmerridew's picture link in his last post: (look again at various positions of each '1' for example)
The sudoku solution I've got is:

[Scurra]

Hmmm. ralphmerridew's solution looked absolutely spot on to me, whereas yours looks wrong.

Two notes:
1. I used the names exactly as they appeared in the subject lines of the forum (typically surnames only.)
2. All the highlighted squares actually show the same number this time (since the answers aren't all nine letters long.)

I'm impressed that you managed to find a plausible answer that fit the meta solution though!
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[ralphmerridew]

Your top-left jigsaw has two fours an no sevens.

[Oscar]

Ah! I had no idea there was such a thing as a jigsaw sudoku - I solved it as a normal one...
So that means the unidentified artefact represents Columbus who was polled with Churchill.
Reading down from the top then gives
Bach polled with AriStotle
Beethoven/GalIleo
Pope/EinStein
Mandela/NewTon
Mohammed/GutEnberg
Columbus/ChuRchill
Buddha/MozArt
Gates/LinColn
Shakespeare/PlaTo

giving the Oscarly unsuccessful Sister Act