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[marq]

ASL and preposition puzzle

[usernameguy]

I tried the dupes as well. (*shrug* what's an extra 82 checks?) I tried every word against every other word, so that's 41*41=1681. "word_word" is 1681 and "word_and_word" is another 1681 = 3362.

[cortezdp]

Sounds like Propositions

[HitsHerMark]

proposition_fourty_one

doesn't work either...

At least she's not trying to tell us how to vote.

[peeveen1]

Don't know if this has already been done, but I just got RhymeZone to give me all the rhymes for "pre" and all the rhymes for "positions", and I wrote a program to test every combination ... for example, free_positions, three_suspicions, plea_ambitions, we_physicians, wee_musicians, etc.

3968 filenames later, no match.

[jellyfish_green]

In Charades, the signal for "sounds like" is to cup your ear, or tug your earlobe. "Earlobe" is a nice word. There's no conventional signal for "preposition" category, though.

[Lurking_Kouzou]

I've thought of another possible solution, but it might take someone with more time, and better coding skill than I to complete it. I thought about making an attempt, but the only language I know well enough to try is Matlab, and I'm not entirely sure that it's the right program for the job.

While the words that are given are all prepositions, we've (mostly) determined that they don't spell anything. Now, what if this is like the Film Noir story that we had last week, where we need to replace each of those words to get the first letters to spell out something (now, 41 letters is a lot of letters for one word, so it will probably be multiple words, like havealaugh was have_a_laugh).

Okay, so here's where the mad coding skills would come in. We could use rhymezone to pull up a list of all the words that rhyme with each entry of the list. The program would take those words and then generate a series of character strings that would look something along the lines of:

"blank space" *the first letter of one word from each list* "blank space" *vertical fence*

so a short example.. if the rhyming words for our prepositions were "top, house, elephant..." the results from the program would be _the..._| (where the _ are really blank spaces, of course). The output of the program could dump to a text file, or something, and repeat letters within the group of rhymes for indiviudal prepositions could be skipped. (i.e. for between you could include bean but skip beane).

Bah, I hope this makes sense, it is much to early for me to be typing in English. (as opposed to Zombie, which is what I normally type in this early in the morning.) It seems like it could be a long shot, but that's about where we are at this point in time...

~K

[Avatrix]

Kouzou, it's a good idea, but I don't think it works here. (I did try checking it out yesterday, without luck). There are far too many vowels, and most of the consonants are B's and T's. It seems unlikely to me that there is enough variety in the first letters to make a coherent phrase.

[Clarence_Worley]

[KwayZeeyT]

I'm starting to wonder if maybe they forgot to upload the file.

[skyhawk0000]

you dare question the all powerful PMs?

this puzzle is just Evil.. I keep thinking that it Has to be simpler then it seems.. but its Still just out of reach

[peeveen1]

[CoffeeJedi]

have we exhausted the possibilities of "Sounds Like"? the most obvious is finding a rhyme or similiar word, the less obvious is the idea of translating the words into music..... but
is there maybe ANOTHER meaning of "sounds like" that we've overlooked?

[introspect]

Convert the letters to binary and see if it turns into a wav file?