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bonanova
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: 1 |
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It's Saturday night and being a puzzle writer I have no social life.
So I make a list of a dozen things:
a conference
a multiplier
a musical instrument
a person who celebrates a holiday twice
a superlative
means of communicating
some clothes
some fibers
some names
someone who hides
two maladies
I lazily let my pencil wander down through the list, twice, thus dividing each word into three pieces of lengths 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6:
E E T [3]
AD ES ES ES FI MA MO OW PO RS SA WW [11]
AYS CRI CZE GRA LAN NDD OLD ROU STO VEF WAR WAW XOP [14]
DROB GHAG GUAG HONE NIKE STOM SPES [7]
ACHACH [1]
Finally, I notice that if I take the 2nd letter of each word, I get some music that tabby might sing.
Name the tune. _________________
Vidi, vici, veni.
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ralphmerridew
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: 2 |
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| musical instrument: SA XOP HONE |
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ralphmerridew
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: 3 |
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| superlative: cri spes t |
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ralphmerridew
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: 4 |
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What I have:
AD ES ES MA MO RS [11]
CZE GRA LAN NDD [14]
GUAG NIKE [7]
(gra ndd ad)?
a conference PO WW OW
a multiplier FI VEF OLD
a musical instrument SA XOP HONE
a person who celebrates a holiday twice
a superlative CRI SPES T
means of communicating
some clothes WAR DROB E
some fibers ROU GHAG ES
some names
someone who hides (STO WAW AYS)?
two maladies STOM ACHACH E
malady
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LordKinbote
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject: 5 |
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I get:
a conference PO WW OW
a multiplier FI VEF OLD
a musical instrument SA XOP HONE
a person who celebrates a holiday twice GRA NDD AD
a superlative CRI SPES T
means of communicating LAN GUAG ES
some clothes WAR DROB ES
some fibers ROU GHAG ES
some names MO NIKE RS
someone who hides STO WAW AYS
two maladies STOM ACHACH E
E CZE MA
Which gives me OIARRAAOOTTC.
I'm not really noticing anything other than the fact that there are a heck of a lot of double letter pairs[/spoiler] |
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LordKinbote
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject: 6 |
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Is it A Cat Oratorio?
Is it Fiiiiiigaro? Not really an oratorio, though.  |
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bonanova
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:35 am Post subject: 7 |
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| LordKinbote wrote: |
Is it A Cat Oratorio?
Is it Fiiiiiigaro? Not really an oratorio, though.  |
The first is right, The second is creative! Nice going.
It was fun to make this one.
Edit - should have been "people who hide" _________________
Vidi, vici, veni.
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