Puzzles!

Nov. 17th, 2006 08:44 am
[personal profile] asterroc
To warm up for the MIT Mystery Hunt, try your hand at identifying these objects, and also seeing how far you can get at this puzzle. For the latter, no cheating - you can find all the answers via Google, but you shouldn't. It's ok to use it as a tool to get to the answers though.

Date: 2006-11-17 02:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com
ooh, what's latin for 8? i love that kind of puzzle. browser puzzles. ^_^

Date: 2006-11-17 04:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sammka.livejournal.com
s'not latin.

I'm up to 15... I cheated on #13 though because I don't know silly idioms.

Date: 2006-11-17 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com
I am stuck on 13 now. Trying to find a list of number associations without the solution to this very puzzle.

Date: 2006-11-17 04:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com
DAMMIT! I accidentally cheated! Saw the answer on a search results page.

Date: 2006-11-17 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zandperl.livejournal.com
Yeah, I did that too once. :-P I think Google has a option (in advanced search) to omit certain keywords if you think it'd help.

Date: 2006-11-18 02:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com
I did that used the domain as a negative search word. One still slipped through.

Date: 2006-11-17 04:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sammka.livejournal.com
If you can't complete the phrase you won't get anywhere :( It's a sort of unfair puzzle.

Date: 2006-11-17 04:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com
puzzles are intrinsically unfair. it is kind of the point.

I just hate to have accidentally cheated.

I am up to sixteen now.

un_ar_bymtheg

Date: 2006-11-17 05:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com
that would be why. grr. i'm still stuck on that one.

Date: 2006-11-17 04:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com
And its more complex than that.

Sept(em) is seven, not eight. So the next in sequence from the name would be octo, but cardinally the next should be nine or nov(em).

Date: 2006-11-17 04:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sammka.livejournal.com
??? That's totally not what I got.

Date: 2006-11-17 04:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com
I got it eventually. Working my way through the romance languages.

Date: 2006-11-17 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zandperl.livejournal.com
Not telling! But you could use Google for that. Just be warned, the full answers can also be found via Google, and I don't think you'd want to do that just yet.

Date: 2006-11-17 05:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oh-chris.livejournal.com
it ends at 30. some were pretty annoying.
(screened comment)

Date: 2006-11-17 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oh-chris.livejournal.com
hmm.. hint.. a zip code in brooklyn, 19th st. and avenue Z is in that zip code.

Date: 2006-11-17 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zandperl.livejournal.com
FYI, I screened this comment b/c it gave away an answer. ^_^

Date: 2006-11-18 02:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com
Actually it just gives away a clue.

Date: 2006-11-17 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zandperl.livejournal.com
I think I was stuck around 23, I'll start again sometime. And yeah a few really pissed me off, either b/c they were difficult or b/c they didn't make sense.

Did I invite you to the Yahoo group yet for our Hunt team? Or did I drop the ball on that?

And if I didn't say, congrats on being married!

Date: 2006-11-18 03:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oh-chris.livejournal.com
you did invite me, and you didn't say. thank you!

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