OT - 11/04/2007 Puzzle

Ganchrow · 11-04-07, 09:03 PM

By the way, this puzzle does not require any heavy-duty math, so don't bother looking for any complex functional interrelationships between the numbers.

So, for example, if at any point the terms "square root", or "eigenvector" or "Riemann zeta-hypothesis" come to mind ... you're probably over thinking things.

louisvillekid · 11-04-07, 09:23 PM

what?

555,833
11,337,728
10,628

raiders72002 · 11-05-07, 01:01 AM

if at any point the terms "square root", or "eigenvector" or "Riemann zeta-hypothesis" come to mind ...

they wouldn't come to mind even if I tried.

Ganchrow · 11-05-07, 06:21 AM

Originally posted by louisvillekid

what?

555,833
11,337,728
10,628

You're looking for the name of a place in plain English. Numbers and punctuation just won't fly.

My advice would be to just keep thinking about the puzzle, reading any hints amast in this thread, and maybe an idea will come to you.

It's just a lateral thinking puzzle that I thought was pretty fun and colorful. Try any answer that comes to mind, I promise no one will put a hex on you if you guess wrong. Really.

Anyway, I don't think think this puzzle is all that hard, but maybe I'll start a pole and see what other posters think.

Ganchrow · 11-05-07, 12:35 PM

Wave if you have any ideas ...

HedgeHog · 11-05-07, 12:56 PM

I noticed that Capture It! as you titled this puzzle has 11 spaces if you count all letters, the space between words and the exclamation point . Does the 11th sequence you request involve this punctuation mark?

Prick Bot · 11-05-07, 01:54 PM

Solved by Sean

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Sean's Fortune:
Fortune's Real-Life Courtroom Quote #29:
 
THE JUDGE: Now, as we begin, I must ask you to banish all present
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Ganchrow · 11-05-07, 03:03 PM

Originally posted by HedgeHog

I noticed that Capture It! as you titled this puzzle has 11 spaces if you count all letters, the space between words and the exclamation point . Does the 11th sequence you request involve this punctuation mark?

No.

If you look at my previous two posts in this thread I've actually given a number of hints.

capitalist pig · 11-05-07, 03:58 PM

Im working on it, dont give us the answer, let us figure it out ourselves.

later

MrX · 11-05-07, 04:00 PM

Almost got it.

MrX · 11-05-07, 04:20 PM

Originally posted by MrX

Almost got it.

I may have been premature in that assessment.

MrX · 11-05-07, 04:30 PM

back on track

Prick Bot · 11-05-07, 04:52 PM

Solved by MrX

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MrX's Fortune:
Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile.
  -- Karl Lehenbauer
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Dead Money · 11-05-07, 04:56 PM

I am numb I see a few hints... just won't fly. amast colorful... a pole....hex....wave.... capture it...pole

Not enough time or brains for me today!!!!

Prick Bot · 11-05-07, 05:15 PM

Solved by Art Vandeleigh

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The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
  -- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
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louisvillekid · 11-05-07, 05:24 PM

i'm clueless. i have no idea what this is about. i thought it was a numbers sequence puzzle, but i guess i was wrong.

louisvillekid · 11-06-07, 02:33 PM

Ganch, are you going to post the answer and explain this puzzle to me/us. my simple-minded feeble brain doesn't get it.

pokernut9999 · 11-06-07, 02:37 PM

it will not let me type answer in

capitalist pig · 11-06-07, 03:06 PM

Originally posted by pokernut9999

it will not let me type answer in

I probably broke the damn answer machine, typing in all the wrong answers. Im still trying, although its not looking promising anymore.

later

pokernut9999 · 11-06-07, 03:13 PM

is it the Moon ?

capitalist pig · 11-06-07, 03:27 PM

Moon answer came back wrong, sorry.

later

Ganchrow · 11-06-07, 04:16 PM

Originally posted by pokernut9999

it will not let me type answer in

Is there not a text box at the bottom of the post?

What browser are you using?

louisvillekid · 11-06-07, 05:11 PM

if this is supposed to be a lateral thinking problem, i thought there is no true answer to a lateral thinking problem. but i don't think this is one, cause all the lateral thinking problems i've read before, are just a paragraph of words, theres no numbers involved.

Prick Bot · 11-06-07, 05:33 PM

Solved by diglett

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diglett's Fortune:
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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Ganchrow · 11-06-07, 09:31 PM

Originally posted by louisvillekid

if this is supposed to be a lateral thinking problem, i thought there is no true answer to a lateral thinking problem. but i don't think this is one, cause all the lateral thinking problems i've read before, are just a paragraph of words, theres no numbers involved.

I'm fairly certain that there's nothing inherent in the definition of a "lateral-thinking" puzzle that would preclude the use of numbers.

Ganchrow · 11-06-07, 09:36 PM

Dead Money, by the way, pointed out a few hints in this post.

Prick Bot · 11-07-07, 03:18 PM

Solved by Matt Rain

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Matt Rain's Fortune:
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
  -- Steven Wright
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Matt Rain · 11-07-07, 03:20 PM

Last hint gave 50% of it away... still took me a while to figure it out from there.

Good stuff!

Ganchrow · 11-08-07, 12:09 AM

Solved by Sean on 11/5/2007 at 13:54:12, MrX on 11/5/2007 at 16:52:25, Art Vandeleigh on 11/5/2007 at 17:15:54, diglett on 11/6/2007 at 17:33:04, and Matt Rain on 11/7/2007 at 15:18:51.

Very nicely done.

<input type=button style="font-size: 9px;" value="Show Solution" onclick='if (this.value == "Show Solution") { document.getElementById("spoil121").styl e.display = ""; this.value="Hide Solution"; } else { document.getElementById("spoil121").styl e.display = "none"; this.value="Show Solution"; } '> <div id=spoil121 style="display: none;"><hr><BLOCKQUOTE>Each of the numbers in RGB colors in decimal form. Each group represents those countrys' flags made up of three horizontal stripes of the colors listed. Each flag is listed in alphabetical order. So:

So the colors are:

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These represent the flags of the countries:

Armenia
Austria
Bulgaria
Colombia
Estonia
Gabon
Germany
Hungary
Latvia

#s 10, and 11 are Lithuania and Luxembourg, respectively. Hence the solution is Luxembourg.
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Prick Bot · 11-08-07, 02:20 AM

Solved by picoman

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picoman's Fortune:
A student, in hopes of understanding the Lambda-nature, came to
Greenblatt. As they spoke a Multics system hacker walked by. "Is it
true," asked the student, "that PL-1 has many of the same data types as
Lisp?" Almost before the student had finished his question, Greenblatt
shouted, "FOO!", and hit the student with a stick.
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pico · 11-08-07, 02:22 AM

still a pretty hard puzzle with that rgb hint.

pico · 11-08-07, 02:23 AM

i guess not everyone is cut out to work for the NSA

Prick Bot · 11-08-07, 03:20 AM

Solved by tacomax

<table><tr><td><img src="image.php?u=38&dateline=1149367 900"></td> <td>Solved by tacomax on Thu Nov 08 at 03:20:57.

tacomax's Fortune:
Speaking as someone who has delved into the intricacies of PL/I, I am
sure that only Real Men could have written such a machine-hogging,
cycle-grabbing, all-encompassing monster. Allocate an array and free
the middle third? Sure! Why not? Multiply a character string times a
bit string and assign the result to a float decimal? Go ahead! Free a
controlled variable procedure parameter and reallocate it before
passing it back? Overlay three different types of variable on the same
memory location? Anything you say! Write a recursive macro? Well,
no, but Real Men use rescan. How could a language so obviously
designed and written by Real Men not be intended for Real Man use?
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Prick Bot · 11-08-07, 03:26 AM

Solved by BigBollocks

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BigBollocks's Fortune:
Computer Science is merely the post-Turing decline in formal systems
theory.
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