OT - 6/18/2006 Puzzle

[Ganchrow]

Yesterday's answer was 'rolemand'. Mudcat managed that one quite nicely.

Now for today:

Ding-Dong

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[Ganchrow]

Yesterday's answer explained: (highlight with mouse to view)
In each list of the two lists, each username listed had the same number of letters. Nine in the first. Eight in the scond. This implies that the username you're looking for also has eight letters. In a manner similar to the board game Mastermind, a green letter indicated the correct letter in the correct position, (with the correct location being the final name listed) and a red letter indicated a correct letter in the incorrect position. Hence, in the first list, the 'B' and the 'R' were in green, in BILLDOZER as that corresponded to the correct positions in the name "BUDDYBEAR". In the second list, the 'L' is green in the third position and the 'E' was green in the forth position. This means we had:
_ _ L E _ _ _ _

The red letters other than 'L' and 'E' were 'R', 'O', 'M', 'A', and 'N'. Filling those in and then descrambling with a little puzzling over the 'D' gives 'ROLEMAND'.

It's actually a lot less complicated than I've made it out to be. But anyway, it's a weekend puzzle so it is supposed to be at least a little bit harder. I do think today's should prove easier.

[moses millsap]

Tried twice and got them both wrong, lol.

[bigboydan]

i tried once and failed.

[rolemand]

Too funny - Can I now put that in my signature?


I was the answer to Ganchrow's puzzle 6/17/06

[tacomax]

I thank you.

[totobernal]

tried.. but couldn't..

[Illusion]

I didn't even bother trying. This stuff is way over my head.