On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 20:19 -0400, Sgeo wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Zing! Vext cwm fly jabs Kurd qoph
>
> Will we all get to learn what the Clues were?
The Secret Answer no longer exists (now the Medal's been given away), so
the restriction on revealing information about it is lifted. I'll now
publically post all the Clues that anyone was given.
{{{
G1:
The secret answer consists of seven words.
The secret answer consists of two sentences.
S1:
The fourth word of the secret answer is the common English
name for a type of small flying insect.
G2:
A recent Google search for the secret answer, without
quotes, produced "about 174" results. It produced "about
407" when quotes were used (yes, more than without, for
some reason).
S2:
The fifth word of the secret answer is a common slang word
for "injections".
G3:
If all letters were removed from the secret answer, leaving
only non-letter characters, it would be "! ." (without
the quotes). It does not end with a newline.
S3:
The first word of the secret answer is an interjection that
is arguably onomatopoeic, referring to a short high-pitched
humming noise.
G4:
No word of the Secret Answer is longer than four letters
long. No word of the Secret Answer is shorter than three
letters long.
S4:
The second word of the secret answer is an archaic word
which means "distressed" or "agitated".
G5:
The Secret Answer is, technically speaking, gramatically
correct English. However, it contains at least one proper
noun, and at least one archaic word; therefore it is not
the sort of utterance likely to be encountered in practice,
and might confuse an automated spelling or grammar checker.
S5:
The seventh word of the Secret Answer is a letter of the
Hebrew alphabet.
G6:
There are exactly three capital letters in the Secret
Answer. They are K, V, and Z, although not necessarily in
that order.
S6:
The sixth word of the Secret Answer refers to a member of
an ethnolinguistic group who mostly live in Iran, Iraq,
Syria, or Turkey.
}}}
I'd be interested to hear from root as to how e solved it, or indeed
from anyone else who made progress solving the puzzle. I'm also curious
as to how much back-room dealing was going on; the only evidence of it I
saw was root buying Clues in the PF, but of course there could be a lot
more I don't know about.
--
ais523
