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#191 - My Dear Watson
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hendo77
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 		#191 - My Dear Watson
No text - periodic table type table with lots of numbers in the boxes...
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Curlytek
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 		Nice, another chemistry puzzle (playing to my stren...well, my career anyways). I imagine that this may be a code similar to one of my favorite chemistry lecture games, using the abbreviations of the elements to spell out funny phrases (ie. mostly rude words). Like 9, 92, 6, 19....or the annoying fashion brand 9, 29, 19. hard to tell without the card/a transcript.

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 		No transcript i'm afraid, there appears to be nothing written on the card

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However the answer page states, Please give two word answers. Then gives you four answer boxes


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Curlytek
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romper2004 wrote:
No transcript i'm afraid, there appears to be nothing written on the card


Sorry, I meant a transcript of the numbers, which seem to be too hard to discern at the lower resolution/fuzziness of the image.

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 		Best I can do with my limited Excel knowledge
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 		Hahaha, nice transcription there romper2004, you just have the 3 and 8 early on on the wrong lines. You should be able to answer this one now using my method!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:03 am
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hendo77
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 		I get the following 'translation'...

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one precise replica two kind of eucalyptus three south west hi tech america four facial ition of alcoholism

Either I've done the final bit wrong, or there maybe a spelling mistake on four.


So I tried the following answers in two attempts:

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1. Carbon Copy
2. Gum Tree
3. Las Vegas
4. rehab centre/red face

I think 1 and 3 are correct, not in any way sure about 2 and 4


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i'd have said three was silicon valley.

which, given carbon copy, leads me to suspect the answers all have an 'element' in them


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hendo77
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 		Good shout. How about...

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Silver Mallet or Red Ironbark for the type of eucalyptus - I would imagine that it is more likely to be Silver Mallet

still not sure about 4


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 		The code was fun, but I've been stuck on #4 for several hours. And to go along with your #2's, how about these:
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Silver Dollar or Silver Gum

This one's killing me! Confused
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:30 am
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 		I'm guessing they would have a few variations of correct answers for 2....but 4, yes, is a bit of a killer.

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hendo77
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 		I'm glad it's not just me stuck on 4! I've been through the periodic table trying to use that to help me find a two word answer - but no joy!

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 		I feel embarrassed that I can't identify or remember the medical term for 4. My medical text books are no more useful than google for this one. Perhaps our Oxford correspondent will have a better memory.

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Since copper and iron metabolism is awry in alcoholism, I think they are the most likely elements to be in a term which is a facial indication of alcoholism. It could be that they are thinking of fetal alcohol syndrome, but of the predominantly facial features, I can't think of one with an element. I better go back to the periodic table myself and work through.


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EDIT: Decided to concentrate on the nose and found "copper nose" in a list of archaic medical terms.

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The 'silver dollar' and 'copper nose' combination doesn't work.
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 		The following wasn't accepted either...

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carbon copy
silver gum
silicon valley
copper nose


And now i'm locked out!

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