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anonymous125423 · Guest

An Attempt to Document My Brain III

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 1:18 am

Thomfabian · Guest

An Attempt to Document My Brain III

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 1:53 am

anonymous125423 · Guest

Ah, thanks. Blindingly obvious. I had tried that but miscounted the letters.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 2:04 am

b0b · Boot Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Posts: 27

This is driving me crazy, the first thing I thought doesn't have enough characters.... Any additional hints?

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 2:29 am

Thomfabian · Guest

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 2:35 am

b0b · Boot Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Posts: 27

Oh my stupid, I deserved that! That exact phrase is/was (haven't been there in a while) on the back of a dumpster of the Sun Down saloon in Boulder, CO next to a crude drawing of a dinosaur....

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 2:48 am

SoItBegins · Veteran Joined: 16 May 2011 Posts: 83

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:29 am

Joseph Fox · Boot Joined: 05 Apr 2011 Posts: 14

So how many of these things are in the USA? I have utterly no clue for at least three of them.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:36 am

The Baffled King · Boot Joined: 07 Sep 2011 Posts: 34

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:31 am

sigh... · Guest

I found the flavor text misleading in that it pointed to other unrelated puzzles... as well as using the word "index into even"...

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:36 am

ne0x

It took some time, but I worked out enough of the answers to guess. I had the wrong US Open though, and I didn't get the second half of one of the clues.

Also, as it happens that painting is my favourite Smile

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**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:40 am

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cgeorg · Boot Joined: 02 Jun 2011 Posts: 14

I've come up with what I believe are answers to the questions, and then indexed them, and I'm coming up with gibberish...

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:06 am

waitingforgo · Greenhorn Joined: 12 Jul 2011 Posts: 3

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:19 am

waitingforgo · Greenhorn Joined: 12 Jul 2011 Posts: 3

This one was far harder than it needed to be. The form of this puzzle is fairly common, but the lack of clue lengths means that there were a lot of possible false avenues.

Several of the clue answers could be in different languages.

Several of the clues could include definite articles in the answers that may or may not need to be accounted for.

There's not much indication as to whether we're looking for first or full names on some.

Like another reader, having the wrong "U.S. Open" will take you down an impossibly wrong avenue. (So, combining these problems together, you end up with, "You're looking for the first letter of a name -- first or last -- of an athlete -- past or present -- in a couple of different sports. Good luck!")

Plus, I had another problem. On the sixth clue, thanks to the fonts used, I thought it was (6, g, 13), instead of (6, 8, 13). Even knowing what I'm looking at, that's one of the roughest "8"s I've ever encountered.

Oh, and having the wrong...

bobbyfisckaxer · Guest

I'm pretty sure I have them all right but an anagram still yields no answer...

**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:30 am