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[Stratman]

I have tried hms victory (no punctuation)
I have also tried sir home popham
nope!
One guess left - obviously 'kicking or kick' is the clue, but cant see a connection (no pun intended!) at the moment.

Well done for getting the answer and we all move on again (eventually, I suspect, back to Shuffled!), but I still cant help being disappointed at another silver card answered (as opposed to solved) with a guess. Perhaps Ms Maitland could pop onto the forum and explain how the solve works. I just returned to the Polar thread to see if something similar had happened there, but apparently not. I cant believe the people at Mind Candy who choose puzzles and assign them to card colours would have picked puzzles for silver that you have to guess the answer.

[meat_paste_dave]

It's not

[uptheblades]

I went off at a tangent on a leap of faith after seeing the picture from brokenthoughts and the 'kick' references so I can now confim that its not

[manleym]

A Help to the right path

[wokerbee]

I finally got there with a bit of help thanks but just missed out on top 10.

Wokerbee

[doublecross]

Dare I post a nugget for this one?

[Stratman]

Unlocked and got it at last!
If kicking was a clue I still don't get it.
But now I see how there probably is a solve there in the flags.
A great guess in the first place!

[Magma]

I think you better turn the stupidity dial up to about 8 or 9 before you post another nugget, 'cos it's still not simple enough for me to figure it out.

I reckon when we finally decode the card it will say:

WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE

At least that's how it feels, with everyone trying to reverse-engineer the answer and all...

[manleym]

[Hunting4Treasure]

[Hunting4Treasure]

A little help, please?

[grendelrob]

[Hobbess]

have we had any brain waves on the source of a solve yet?

I don't think the gaps between flags have ever been mentioned, some after 3 and others after 4 flags

Using the last listing of the flag details here each group is on a new line.

L:
(5/!) ? (!/!)
? (W/B/14) (X/1/2) (P/2/4/9/1/0)
M:
UK ? (X/1/2) (0/No)
(3/!) (X/1/2) (6/4) 8
? 3 (6/4)
? (P/2/4/9/1/0) (0/No) ?
R:
? (P/2/4/9/1/0) K ?
6 (P/2/4/9/1/0) 4 K
Turn (X/1/2) K ?

That gives 9 groups by my reckoning, 2 with 3 flags and 7 with 4 (or 3 & 6 if you irgnore the Union Jack). Given the number of options and question marks this is very speculative but just a thought should anyone want to come back to this.

[Magma]

After being outright told the answer by someone, I agree that the answer is obvious only in the way that it has a strong link with the Battle of Trafalgar. Trouble is that there are a huge number of obvious answers to do with Trafalgar, and this is towards the end of the list of obvious answers I would have tried.

So all in all not kicking myself.

[Peapod]

Well, as I had asssumed when I first read up on the Battle of Trafalgar that it had already been tried, and so never tried it myself, I'm still kicking myself (the lack of sleep has been difficult). This is why I got it so quickly once AndyAndyo mentioned that the answer was already posted.

At least this is getting me to take some guesses on other cards now, just to make sure they aren't the answer.