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BrianEnigma
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 		Perplex City Subway Puzzle/Ad
So I happened upon an article at MetaFilter that is about strange and fun ads in the London Underground cataloged at a website. Of course, the Perplex City Subway talk recently caused this to catch my eye....and whaddya know, there's one listed for Perplex City:

http://www.viacom-outdoor.co.uk/content/copywriting/mindcandy-perplexcity.jpg
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 		Great find Brian!

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1. Paris, Varanne
2. Umm, cryptic huh.. 12 minutes huh?
a/ ?
b/ ?
c/ ?
d/ Victoria
e/ Cenitaph
ALL: Metropolitan
3. We know, see puzzle card.
4. St. John's Wood


Note that Adrian Hon is the one who posted the first post about it?

I'll leave the hyroglyphs to the ample supply of egyptoligists we seem to have here Smile

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 		My answer to number 2:

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it is Metropolitan, though my answers were Mansion House, Preston Road, Poplar, Victoria, and Monument.


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cassandra wrote:
My answer to number 2:

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it is Metropolitan, though my answers were Mansion House, Preston Road, Poplar, Victoria, and Monument.


And I failed completely to notice that the
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answers were underground station names


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 		It's definetely Monument, there's no station called Cenitaph.
All the others look right as well.
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 		Explanation of the cryptic clues, if anyone's curious/frustrated. Not that they're difficult:

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a) 'Ruined' indicates an anagram/jumble in the clue. 'Heinous mason' = 'Mansion House,' which is hinted at by 'abode.'

b) 'Sounds like' indicates..well, you get it. 'Pushed into the street' = 'Pressed in/on road' = Preston Road.

c) 'Well-liked' = Popular = Poplar, hinted at by 'yew tree.'

d) 'She' = feminine, 'falls' = waterfall, located (partly) in Zimbabwe = Victoria Falls.

e) A little odd. 'The hill' = the French 'Mont,' with the 'foe within' as 'N-U-ME,' ie, enemy. Monument = 'place of remembrance.'



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 		Has anyone solved the hyrogliphs in the background yet?
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 		im starting doing that now
EDIT : i tried but had trouble finding all of the symbols. im not sure wheter there is a message in it or not. i cant (on my own) translate all of this

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 		I'm wondering what the significance of the Paris station is. It wasn't exactly a stretch to figure out it was a Metro station (might have been more difficult if it wasn't for all the French names) and finding it on a map was also easy. Hardly likely to sharpen your brain on the way to work. I'm just hoping that maybe there's more to this puzzle:

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The Fish says Varenne means 'Game preserve'. Does anyone see any pattern to this and the other answers, which, to save you scrolling up were:
2. Mansion House, Preston Road, Poplar, Victoria, and Monument all on the Metropolitan line.
3. See the puzzle card. I thought the colours might have some relevance too; red is the Central line, yellow is the Circle line, green is the District line and navy blue is the Picadilly line in London.
4. St. John's Wood

Or maybe I should go read my sig for a couple of hours......

EDIT - the stations aren't all on the same line at all (as I discovered when I highlighted the relevant stations - see my later post in this thread).

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 		To get there hieroglyphic ball rolling here are the hieroglyphs a bit clearer (and a bit smaller) ...
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Neanderthal wrote:
To get there hieroglyphic ball rolling here are the hieroglyphs a bit clearer (and a bit smaller) ...

I am not sure whether or not this one is easier to read, but I thought I would include it just in case:

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BriEnigma wrote:
I am not sure whether or not this one is easier to read ...


If you can not read your version more easily, you must be blind. Shocked

Ignore my other post.
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 		hieroglyphs
This site might help to decipher the hieroglyphs.
So far, I have found that the first two symbols are the word "the". (Big deal, right?)
Check out the translations of the words under, city, love/desire/wish, palace, sovereign (two crocs), and garden. They all seem to be in this puzzle.

Calling our hieroglyphs card translator. Help!

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 		Salkunh! We need you!
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 		...and #3 is the E3 puzzle card innit?
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