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[Mornington]

More Trout for the Fire...

[Arana]

Re: Rani the analyst

[logjones]

Someone brought up the between the lines thing again a couple of posts back.

Since there's 41 words - there's 20 above the word between and 20 below. I figured 20/20 as there's 20 between the lines and the word between.

As in 20/20 vision maybe.

I've been coupling that with my idea about the definitions of the words being just about everywhere around something else.

Stuff like "see_everything.wav" because everything sounds kind of like everywhere. But I'm still coming up blank.

[Elec]

Re: Rani the analyst

[Mornington]

symetrical clues?

[Howdareyou]

In the vein of "between is the middle word in the list": Perhaps the clue is 'sounds like between'? RhymeZone has a big ol' list of rhymes... Nothing yet, but I'll get back to you.

L' EDIT: I tried words and phrases that seemed to fit with a possible context of Rani's conversation with Herzog (eliminating things like "green_bean" and "peloquin"), so I've probably missed the actual one, if it's there. I thought I was onto something with microwave_diathermy_machine.wav, but I was very much mistaken.

L'EDIT SECONDAIRE: More ideas for those with more patience than me:

1. prepositions or phrases that sound like "Sounds like"
2. prepositions or phrases that sound like "between"
3. combinations of the above
4. combining a preposion found above with "analyst(s)", i.e. above_analysts, between_analysts

The number of possibilities leads me to hypothesise that we are missing something along the lines of the 'vital clue'... something to focus our efforts. I believe this because all of the other puzzles so far have been reasonably logical, with minimal guesswork involved. Just giving us "sounds like" and a list of prepositions makes me think that there's something bigger, or that we're missing the point entirely.

[jellyfish_green]

very tempting:
"sounds like" "list of prepositions" = analyst, position
which wouldn't be a farfetched phrase in the conversation
but no luck with analyst_position (or plurals thereof)
edit: nor analysts_premonition, 'tho I had a feeling

I wonder if Rani shares anything juicy about the evac on Reach?

[ElViento]

Some of them are time prepositions; "Prime" sounds like "Time" and 41 is a prime number. There are also 41 "Mersenne" primes which is a prime number of the form 2^P-1 .. more here:

http://www.mersenne.org/faq.htm#what

http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm

I haven't been able to get any further or produce the magic wav with this yet though using combinations of "Prime" and words that sound like "Location" (being the other type of preposition present).

[Torrasque]

[Torrasque]

[Lurking_Kouzou]

Oi.

I can just envision the PMs as they created this puzzle, lol. "Hurly_Burly_Nurly.wav, hey Bob, that sounds like a list of prepositions doesn't it?" "Hey, it does. Call Frank over here, and let's get started!"

And then here we are, trying to solve it with:

*Loads rhyming and homophone shotgun* *Fires at transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/*

Hurly_Burly_Nurly.wav doesn't work, lol. After I made it up, I had to check it. I also checked for the obvious sounds_like.wav and forty-one_prepositions.wav, just in case.

I'm thinking that once we figure this one out, we'll be smacking ourselves upside the collective head...
~K

[Torrasque]

I just had a thought.

Please trout me in neccesary, but what if this last puzzle can be used with the decoder ring puzzles and instead of ECHO (A=A) SOUNDS LIKE means (A=H) and we use the first letters of the prepositions. It definitely seems like a stretch to me but I thought it might be worth a try.

[Mistersix]

What is the name of the game where you act out different things on cards.
Its where you do the hand movement to signal "Sounds like". This is pretty much just for me because I completely forget what the name of this party game is and its ruining my life (I dreampt of it last night, yet didn't dream of the name).

[ElViento]

Charades

We had a game show over here in the seventies based on it called "Give Us A Clue"

[Torrasque]

Charades.

Edit: Little slow on the draw this morning.