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aliendial
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Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3438 Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.
Well you will need to count something, so you need to keep those numbers separate, sammykat.
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:25 pm
Sammykat
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Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 40
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..Do I start counting from It, or When?
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:38 pm
badbarry
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Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 140 Location: London
Sammykat, you don't need anything from the card except the numbers.
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You now need to follow the fairy tale clues (Von's and others' in this thread), identify an author and see if you can use the numbers you have in that way. Still a bit of work to do yet!
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:27 pm
EvilGenius
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Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 227 Location: Vancouver
Sammykat wrote:
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..Do I start counting from It, or When?
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Neither. Everything you need in already here in the thread
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 3:51 pm
dmatos
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Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 26
That was a good one, slightly helpful if you have kids.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:31 pm
Purdy
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Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 17 Location: London UK
nightmare! Well I have all the clues and I think I have the right list but no manner of combination of counting letters or starting letters is getting me anywhere... nor can I figure it purely from the obscure fairy tale 'clues' can ANYONE push me a little further into the realm of some understanding please?
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:06 pm
badbarry
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Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 140 Location: London
Purdy
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Are there KHM numbers in your list? You only need the first letter of each title, but in English.
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:13 pm
Purdy
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Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 17 Location: London UK
D'oh! it would be the one I was thinking of all along... didn't help that I spelt it wrong the first two times... thanks all for your pointers especially Ramsfan who gave me the right list (google has been going mental on me since I started this game... getting paranoid!) and badbarry just for being there as always
big hugs I can die happy now...
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:42 pm
threadingham
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Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 12
This may sound like a really thick question but what on earth does the 3 letter reference from Badbarry mean? Please reply pretty sharpish someone as only got 30 mins of lunch left before I have to get back to work. Cheers
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:00 am
threadingham
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Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 12
Aah, it suiddenly all became clear and I have now found where I am supposed to be looking. 8 mins left of lunch to fathom an answer
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:18 am
obrienk
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Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 73
well, i'm still stuck...
i've got the
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KHM list
and the
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english translations of the titles
but, now what
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:10 am
Agent Lex
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Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1188 Location: No longer London, still in England
obrienk wrote:
but, now what
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You have numbers from the card, and a list of numbered things. The next step is fairly obvious.
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:02 am
obrienk
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Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 73
Agent Lex wrote:
obrienk wrote:
but, now what
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You have numbers from the card, and a list of numbered things. The next step is fairly obvious.
not to me
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my list of numbered things all have more than one word, and nearly all begin with 'the'
perhaps my list is wrong? i used the one from the pittsburgh uni site to get the english names
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:33 pm
aliendial
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Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3438 Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.
I found a student at the University of Newfoundland particularly helpful. Another at Carnegie Mellon was OK but I would have had to do the numbering. And I note that at least one list at Pitt is the same, and it even has the numbers...
And to answer another question from above, that I also wondered about:
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The final version of this pioneering collection consists of 200 numbered stories plus ten "Children's Legends." The standard abbreviation for the collection is KHM, from the German title. [Kinder- und Hausmärchen](credit to D. Ashliman for the source info; I think one of the sources I mention above actually pulls their data from the same list so maybe he/she gets ALL the credit for the nice convenient lists...)
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:07 pm
obrienk
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Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 73
i'm a moron
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:39 pm
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