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[Muffin]

[SOLVED] Quirky Acuity - Sayings of Gyvann

[oliverkeers13]

We need to focus on the message beforehand as well

[Zedix]

Well, seems like we have to find missing words associated with each of the words given.

[oliverkeers13]

The words number of letters:

[joolsweb]

re posted from previous thread....
Ok so here we go first puzzle for a while (at long last - am I the only one going slightly mad from all the waiting)...so all your clever bods what's yer take on this one then? Is it one of those riddles where you put an additional word in front or behind of the exisiting words...is there any sort of engine which does that for us?

edit - Sorry I've had another look at it and it seems it wants us to find out what is missing either in the words or the group of words...do the words make any sort of group to anyone...see I told you I was dense!
same thoughts as Zedix

[oliverkeers13]

also all monosyllabic words

some can be made into new words with the addition of letters: i.e. eye -> eyelet, face -> facet

[Macavity]

Thing is, I don't think that'd work for "fly", conisering it's an irregular verb (unless you're talking about bugs) . . .

Wait a minute. Bugs. Perhaps something to do with covert surveillance equipment (also known as "bugs")?

Disregard previous, I just noticed a pattern in the word lengths.

[Zedix]

Did a bit of research and found a couple suffix prefix that could work. Started noticing a trend, but at the last word it broke >_< anyways, maybe it can help other people so I'll post a couple words:

head, hand, milk - shake -
straight, poker, bold - face - plate, off, cloth, lift, value
shut, glass, black - eye - glass, sore, patch, lid, ball, candy
field, school, brain, clock, team, patch - work - out, bench, day, force
arm's, wave - length -
over, fore - head - band, board, lamp, phone
fire, dragon, butter - fly

The thrend I hate noticed is if you look at each word, you can relate a body part... They say only look at what's missing, so if you take the missing words so that each word would have a body part... it would go as follows:
head(shake), face, eye, brain(work), arm's (length), head, ... and I couldn't find anything for fly. Anyways yeah, just a list of words mostly if you want to use them with your own theory.

[joolsweb]

I'm no good at this prefix, suffix stuff but there seems to be something in the patch - work, work-out part (or maybe I'm going mad) just seems to fit having the words work out in a puzzle

[oliverkeers13]

I was just looking at the riddle again, and I think that the formatting of the words is important somehow, normally, they would just be written horizontally in a line, not vertically, is there a shape or wordsearch type thing there?

[Alcoe80]

I always feel like I'm over thinking things when I see a puzzle like this.

[erekose]

Has any one noticed that eye and fly rhyme? it makes it sound like a poem

I like the pattern idea best, but there just doesn't seem to be one.
perhaps we should take up violets spec and search ancient religons for the significance of these words. Of course, she was probably talking about Pxc religions.

and as for catergories, work can be a unit of measurement, like length, and face can be a verb as in "face me"

[Zedix]

So far, we seem to have 2 possible solution. One would involve finding missing suffix/prefix, and that those would somehow form the passcode, and the other being we need the find the next word that follows, kinda like a mathematical suite. Further along that line, the word needing to be found could have a defined length based on numerical patterns of the words we already have.

Out of curiosity and somewhat unrelated, I wonder how we're supposed to get the answer to her. What if we can't agree on an answer and she gets 2-3 different words from us... She'll enter the wrong passcode and screw up the mission ?

[oliverkeers13]

[oliverkeers13]