Quickies: The Resurrection

[Oscar]

The answers are all variants of red, white and blue. If you take the letter in each answer which is indexed by its position in the set you get
THREE COLOURS DIRECTOR giving the final answer 'Kieslowski'. (The 3 Colours film trilogy were named Red, White and Blue)

The missing answer was DUCK EGG (blue)

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Axes of Revolution

HIDE BOCK
VOW HUM TAXI
OX SHIN
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[Suspence]

Axes as in chopping? Or as in more than one axis? I assume the latter...
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Very sweet! I'll only spoil if and when I've got a new puzzle to put up

Oscar
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[Elethiomel]

Yep, very neat!

[Oscar]

If you (Elethiomel) or anyone else has a puzzle to go, please take it - I've nothing imminent

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Last was xyz - the 3 word groups are composed of letters which show respectively horizontal, vertical and inversion symmetry. Each group is missing one member: X, Y and Z which nicely are the axes used for 3 dimensions.

Next:

Terminal velocity

A man sets off triumphantly on a train journey at five past six one evening. He arrives at his destination ten minutes later in despair. (after travelling at phenomenal speed)

Who is that man?

Oscar (no, I'm not that man )
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Blimey, it's been a long time since I've actually managed to do one of these first.

-- Scurra
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[Scurra]

I had understood the idea of the previous one, but I had missed the detail that the three lines needed to be treated separately. I think I also got misled by thinking that L ought to be part of the last set.
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[novice]

[Oscar]

[LordKinbote]

[Oscar]

To answer novice more directly:
yes, certain Europeans would have a head start, but you *will* know this person and the bare facts are Google-friendly.

I've no in-depth knowledge of the film series, Lord K, so I don't know quite how serious your suggestion is, but I doubt that MM matches the specifics of the puzzle as well as my answer.

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Well I understood this one in under a minute when I first saw it, because my first guess at the method turned out to work consistently with the rest of it and it seemed pretty obvious once I'd thought of it. I don't think it was because I was a European specifically although now that you mention it, it may have helped a bit.
I will keep this open for a bit longer though as I don't have a replacement puzzle (at least not one that's a "quickie" - every time I set one of these it kills the thread...)

-- Scurra
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[Oscar]

As a slight hint I'll say that the 'phenomenal speed' bit is only there to 'explain' how the journey from origin to destination could be covered in 10 minutes - it has more than probably added too much to the confusion...

[LordKinbote]

[Scurra]

That sequence definitely doesn't happen in the evening - it happens sometime midmorning. And this journey has to happen in the evening...
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[Oscar]

Apologies for doubting your sincerity, Lord Kinbote, but this not a straight description of a single scene - in fact there is definitely some translation required...

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OK, since no-one else got this in a few days: the answer was Napoleon - he essentially started his journey in 1805 (five past six) - which is the date of the Battle of Trafalgar - and ended his journey in 1815 (ten minutes later) at the Battle of Waterloo (which you could say he got to by train!)

This one may require a title but I'm not giving one just yet. Yes, the clues are probably a little too vague...

Mathematical process
Doctor Who companion
Tony Todd movie
Facial feature
Stringed instrument
Place for trading
Nobel Literature Prize winner
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[Oscar]

While 1805 was the date of Trafalgar the intended link was that of Napoleon's triumph at Austerlitz in the same year. The Gare d'Austerlitz is the railway terminal in Paris which commemorates that victory in the same way that Waterloo railway terminal commemorates his defeat at the hands of Wellington and Blucher.

[Scurra]

Good point. I'd completely forgotten that detail.
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[novice]

Something related to changing initial letters, perhaps?

Mathematical process
HARKNESS - Doctor Who companion
CANDYMAN - Tony Todd movie
BEARD, MOUTH - Facial feature
CELLO - Stringed instrument
MART, MARKET - Place for trading
LESSING, PINTER, GOLDING - Nobel Literature Prize winner

[Suspence]

Seems like many could be replaced with an H, though Harkess is a problem.

? - Mathematical process
? - Harkness ( Holly - Polly, possibly?)
Handyman - Candyman
Heard - Beard
Hello - Cello
Hart - Mart
Holding - Golding
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[Elethiomel]

Humming - Summing
Holly - Polly

[novice]

Counting how far the first character is shifted:

11 - Humming - Summing
8 - Holly - Polly
21 - Handyman - Candyman
20 - Heard - Beard
21 - Hello - Cello
5 - Hall - Mall
26 - Holding - Golding

KHUTUEZ

or, if we do the difference the other way around:

ORDEDUA

[Scurra]

Wow. I'm genuinely impressed by how a completely plausible alternative approach can be produced based on reasonable answers from a very vague set of clues! I guess that shows why vague clues are a very bad idea for this sort of puzzle without good guidance.
No, you're way off beam with this idea.

I have been trying to figure out how to clue this better without making the intended answers too obvious and thus making the puzzle a bit easy. Hmmm.
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[too lazy to login*]

Might be four-letter-words:

PERI, ROSE, NOSE, BROW, CROW, BIRD, ?
BUCK, HARP, BASS, LUTE, ...

They shouldn't be *all* of them list-clues.

[Suspence]

Can we have a push in the right direction, to keep this as a quickie?
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[Scurra]

OK, here's what might be a much easier version...

As easy as...

Mathematical process (3)
Doctor Who companion (3)
Tony Todd movie (3)
Facial feature (4)
Stringed instrument (5)
Place for trading (5)
Nobel Literature Prize winner (6)
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[esme]

[Zag]

[Jack_Ian]

??? -> ZOE -> POE -> PORE -> ??? -> STORE -> SARTRE ?

[novice]

[novice]

By the way, I would assume the digits of PI are involved somehow, maybe as extraction indices.

PI = 3.14159265359...

[novice]

Maybe we need a hint.

[Scurra]

See what I mean about killing the thread?

As Easy As ABC

Mathematical process (3)
Doctor Who companion (3)
Tony Todd movie (3)
Facial feature (4)
Stringed instrument (5)
Place for trading (5)
Nobel Literature Prize winner (6)
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[Thok]

There's a bit of combinatorial explosion going on. Each clue seemingly has 3-5 reasonable answers, even with the restrictions on it.

[novice]

As Easy As ABC

ABC? - Mathematical process (3)
ACE, AMY - Doctor Who companion (3)
BEG, CUT, IOU - Tony Todd movie (3)
CHIN - Facial feature (4)
CELLO - Stringed instrument (5)
AGORÆ?? - Place for trading (5)
BELLOW - Nobel Literature Prize winner (6)

So maybe alphabetical words again.

[Thok]

I sort of want things to be alphabetical. You cold make Brow be the facial feature (and Clezio be the Nobel Literature laureate), but then place for trading is still up in the air.

[novice]