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Re: MIT Puzzle Hunt

#61 Post by Scurra » Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:06 am

Bunnylump wrote:Also, 14 pounds?? Keep thinking STONE but why ONE - well, apart from the 1 in 14...? :?
Why not? After all, 14 pounds is the very definition of ONE STONE :)

(Hmm. Caught out by the quote tag not playing nicely with the spoiler tag...)
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Re: MIT Puzzle Hunt

#62 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:08 am

Because it ignores the 4? :?
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Re: MIT Puzzle Hunt

#63 Post by LAT » Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:09 am

I've no idea. You seem to have jumped way ahead of me on this!
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Re: MIT Puzzle Hunt

#64 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:35 am

LAT and I think the answer is Bobby Hendricks

We still can't get

It can turn a frown upside-down which we think begins with CH


AFL-CIO member who spawns by moonlight which we think begins with GR

A little break for oneself which we think begins with TI
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Re: MIT Puzzle Hunt

#65 Post by chazzie » Sun Jan 22, 2017 8:25 am

Well done

For a little break for oneself could it be TI ME OUT
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Re: MIT Puzzle Hunt

#66 Post by chazzie » Sun Jan 22, 2017 10:36 am

Going back to previous puzzle is old receptacle for waste chamber pot
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Re: MIT Puzzle Hunt

#67 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Jan 22, 2017 11:15 am

chazzie wrote:Well done

For a little break for oneself could it be TI ME OUT
Ah, brilliant, thank you.

As for the other puzzle, yes that would work.

There must be a reason they are making us split up the words like that, but I can't see anything being spelled out in initial letters of the splits.
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Re: MIT Puzzle Hunt

#68 Post by chazzie » Sun Jan 22, 2017 11:27 am

Just spotted something - its not the initial letters - it is the last letters of the first column
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Re: MIT Puzzle Hunt

#69 Post by chazzie » Sun Jan 22, 2017 11:31 am

I have the following message with missing parts UNFLEDG??NES?L?NGPIGEO? - so giving me UNFLEDGED NESTLING PIGEON - so answer SQUAB
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Re: MIT Puzzle Hunt

#70 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Jan 22, 2017 11:53 am

Oh, well done! :)
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Re: MIT Puzzle Hunt

#71 Post by LAT » Sun Jan 22, 2017 4:50 pm

I still can't work out what those final answers for the other puzzle could be. :(
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Re: MIT Puzzle Hunt

#72 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Jan 22, 2017 5:35 pm

No, nor can I. Scurra, did you get any of those?

Also (barely dare ask now! :lol: ) was this the last of the "slightly more accessible" puzzles? I liked these once I had got started...
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