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[S2] [OXO Set] #105 Home Town
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neopuff34
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 		[S2] [OXO Set] #105 Home Town
Guest Puzzle Architect: Peter Blake
The card reads: "In which cities did these cars originate?" and the 5 licence plates read:
NOK-9O1 (with a circle of stars and the letters FIN beside it)
WR35 STR
1129 CNT
OR-14-GE
DNE 414
H12 YWD (with a picture of the state of Florida behind it)

And the back:
Quote:
6am. time for the early service. my morning begins here each day. everyone who lives in the compound gathers for the first prayers of the day in the main hall. i like this time. it lets me see all of my friends gathered together and remember that we are all part of a family, of a whole.

when the leaders gather on the dais, everyone goes quiet. now, we all close our eyes. for minutes we sit in silence, purifying our minds and communing with the Cube. as individuals we speak to It but, as a group, we walk together following Its guidance.

on occasion our leader will speak of our relations with the city. he asks us to pray for our brothers unable to live with us in the compound, he asks us to pray that they be given fair treatment by others. others seem to fear us, to hate us, to be worried by our very presence.

i pray for them all.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:09 pm
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X9Tim
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So far as I can tell from wiki:
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Spanish numbers do not include city codes.
The same applies to most of these countries... Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:45 pm
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 		Note, as of 2 days ago when I solved this there is an error in the accepted answer.

Clue:
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These are not real number plates, think sort of text-speak


Error:
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The Yellow car which presumably should be Worcester is only accepted as Worchester

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:41 am
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 		I dont understand, not even a little.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:32 pm
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Sophiecat
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wizzsteve2 wrote:
I dont understand, not even a little.


Clue 1:
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You are looking for 6 place names.


Clue 2:
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The numbers give you some of the missing letters. Some of the vowels are still missing as in text-speak.


Clue 3:
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Green is a place in Finland, orange is in Spain, yellow is in England (spelt wrongly), blue is in the Netherlands, purple is in New Zealand and red is in Florida (though the more famous one is in California),

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:43 pm
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ramsfan
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 		ta
Thanks for providing the solution. Having wasted time on the traditional solution, I was frustrated to still not get a solve with the text approach.

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As a Cure fan I would have driven the blue car to another country

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:16 pm
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X9Tim
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Sophiecat wrote:

Clue 2:
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The numbers give you some of the missing letters. Some of the vowels are still missing as in text-speak.


Clue 3:
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Green is a place in Finland, orange is in Spain, yellow is in England (spelt wrongly), blue is in the Netherlands, purple is in New Zealand and red is in Florida (though the more famous one is in California),

I found most of these without much trouble. But I can't find anything for the blue car even vaguely similar to OR...GE. Am I being stupid looking for names in the original language?

PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:29 pm
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X9Tim wrote:
I found most of these without much trouble. But I can't find anything for the blue car even vaguely similar to OR...GE. Am I being stupid looking for names in the original language?


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O
R
(vowel)
14=N
G
E

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:32 pm
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Sophiecat wrote:
X9Tim wrote:
I found most of these without much trouble. But I can't find anything for the blue car even vaguely similar to OR...GE. Am I being stupid looking for names in the original language?


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O
R
(vowel)
14=N
G
E

That's what i thought it must be, but i've never heard of this city and it doesn't come up in this list

However I do know of
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Oranje in the Netherlands


C'est la jeu. I suppose

PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:46 am
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 		You guys are making too much of it.

BLUE CAR SOLUTION IN THE SPOILER BELOW - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

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Orange


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:45 am
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Eugenes Lair
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DavidHolliss wrote:
You guys are making too much of it.

BLUE CAR SOLUTION IN THE SPOILER BELOW - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

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Orange


Smile

I think part of the problem is that it's not clear which country the blue car comes from. It's most likely from: (hint)
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France

This is because: (contains solution)
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Orange is an historically-important city in the south, near Avignon. It's where the House of Orange gets its name from.
There are however also a number of cities with that name in the States.


PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:56 pm
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Sophiecat
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 		However the style of the number plate on the blue car is definitely
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dutch

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:59 pm
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 		thats ok, its the green one thats completely stumped me!

PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:49 pm
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Eugenes Lair
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 		At the risk of reading way too much into this, it might be worth pointing out that the names of the cities referred to by the green and blue cars are both:
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related to mobile phones.

The green car's city is also both the name and home town of a major mobile phone manufacturer.
The blue car's city is in France, and is also the name of a french-owned mobile phone operator (although I don't think the two are related).

This might explain the idea behind giving the names in text-speak.
Having said that, I can't find an obvious telecoms link with the other four cities...


PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:19 am
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pheebs wrote:
thats ok, its the green one thats completely stumped me!



Warning, part answer:
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N
O
K
9 = I
01 = A

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