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[Courk]

Link to the aforementioned puzzle.

Happy solving!

[Oscar]

Hmmm... I've assembled the pieces and worked out what they mean, but they don't give a cast-iron final word. You could choose any of matador or toreador or bullfighter by my reckoning.

I won't post a spoiler of the method yet since I'm sure some people will want to have the fun of getting the little cut-out pieces to stay in one place while trying not to sneeze. On the other hand, if there are sufficient folk already fed up with the diabolical jigsaw then I'll go ahead...

[edit]After further research it appears that matador is the technically correct option[/edit]

[novice]

I've assembled some pieces of the puzzle but I don't think I've managed to fit everything together correctly yet. I haven't figured out how to interpret the result yet. Is it easy to recognize the solved jigsaw when you find it?

[Oscar]

I wouldn't say it was *easy*, because my first attempt wasn't completely correct. But there was sufficient repetition for me to notice complete elements, which, when I'd found their origin via Google, meant I could rejig to get the desired result.

[novice]

Yeah I'm not sure what those elements are. Flags, perhaps?

Btw I found this, which was intriguing but probably irrelevant:
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2010/01/18/color-identifying-system-for-the-color-blind/

[Oscar]

Interpreting that as two questions:
correct and correct(intriguing and irrelevant).

Hint: the jigsaw makes 30 flags in total

[novice]

A quick arts & crafts session with my kids revealed this:



Now if someone can tell me what the flags mean...

[Suspence]

They look to be maritime alphabet flags:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_maritime_signal_flags#Letter_flags_.28with_ICS_meaning.29
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[novice]

Yup, found it too... Rotated my picture 180 degrees to make it fit.

P E R S O
N W A V I
N G A R E
D F L A G
I N A C O
R R I D A

PERSON WAVING A RED FLAG IN A CORRIDA

[Dej Mar*]

Absent of color with the need to rotate many of the "cut-out" pieces, the "quilt" of images is revealed to be a 5x7 image of 30 maritime signal flags surrounded by a dark border. The maritime signal flags spell out:

PERSO
NWAVI
NGARE
DFLAG
INACO
RRIDA

With spacing, the message reads
"PERSON WAVING A RED FLAG IN A CORRIDA".

Such a person is called an ESPADA, the swordsman or chief bull-fighter. An espada is one of the several TOREROs (bull-fighters) that participate in a bull-fight, and is often the matador, i.e., the person who kills the bull.

[Beartalon]

No-one has said anything since August?

"Corrida" means "race" as in "running of the bulls" (corrida del toros). That's an important festival in Pamplona, Spain, which I assume might be the solution.

The puzzle is called "Colorblind" and no-one has mentioned how it's related to the puzzle. Cattle are red/green colourblind. Bulls bred for these events attack the moving cape, not the colour red supporting the answer above.

[Suspence]

I thought Oscar solved this in Post 2 - MATADOR

Given the puzzle flavor - The message is very short: "Someone in this café knows where you should go next." - I assume there's a fellow matching that description in the cafe.
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[Beartalon]

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de toros. Source: is Spanish.
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[groza528]

The intended answer is indeed MATADOR
The reason that I haven't put the next puzzle up is because I thought one of the Top GLer puzzles was slotted for the front page, so I was expecting MNO would get something up there himself or had someone who was going to help him do so.

[Beartalon]

Thanks for the confirmation, groza!