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Return of the Quickies · Solved That One!

I miss quickies. So I'm bringing them back!

Here are the rules, if you have forgotten (or are doing quickies for the first time):

1. Unless otherwise specified, all solutions are lower-case.
2. If you solve a quickie, you may log into that quickie account with the solution to the quickie as the password. Please make a puzzle of your own and post it with that account. Don't forget to change the account password to the solution to your own quickie.
3. If you solve a quickie but have none of your own, you're welcome to leave a note saying that you've solved it but are passing it on.

To prevent a hard puzzle from deadlocking the entire thread, I've made two accounts, so there can be two simultaneous quickies being solved at one time. I was going to make 3, but I ran out of puzzle ideas.

Here is the first one:

- yuethomas

Quickies Reloaded · Icarian Member

And the second one:

ralphmerridew · Daedalian Member

I reassembled the jigsaw puzzle to

Anybody recognize the original pic?

Quickies Reloaded · Icarian Member

Got it, but I don't have a puzzle at present. -- rm

Return of the Quickies · Solved That One!

Got the first one. It was... nine of the top ten most frequent posters in GL

Will post another soon. jbvntx.

Return of the Quickies · Solved That One!

Okay, here's Quickie #3...

I've cut out a rectangular piece from a chessboard, cutting only on the lines.

If I were to tell you any one of the following you could not figure out my rectangle: the perimeter, the area, or the length of the diagonal.

Oops, I've already told you enough. The answer is in the form "sixbythree", if the rectangle's sides were of length 6x3.

jbvntx

Return of the Quickies · Solved That One!

Got it, though you probably ought to have said that the answer was in the form "threebysix". Leaving it for now because I don't have anything else yet.

Return of the Quickies · Solved That One!

Got it! Hoorah!!!

-AZu

Return of the Quickies · Solved That One!

groza again; I think I beat AZu to changing the answer... I realized I actually *do* have a puzzle that's been sitting in my archives but it can wait. I have to manipulate the image a bit. AZu can go first. I'll change the password and pm it to him.
Edit: but in the interest of keeping the thread moving I'm stealing it back if he doesn't claim within two hours Revenge most foul!

AZu · Daedalian Member

Don't have a puzzle so go ahead.

Return of the Quickies · Solved That One!

Previous was onebyeight

Fourteen thematic words are hidden in this grid vertically and horizontally. After you find those you should be able to get the answer.

-groza

ralphmerridew · Daedalian Member

I tried handling it as Braille, but few of the spaces translated to letters (and with 17 columns, it doesn't break up evenly. An expanded version got the word "owl", but I suspect that's a coincidence.

groza528 · No Place Like Home

It is Braille. Don't bother trying to split it up evenly; I used Braille because it would behave differently from normal letters.

Quickies Reloaded · Icarian Member

Answer: The original picture is here, but this knowledge isn't necessary to solving the puzzle. Notice that the image is 26 rows high and 6 columns wide, and there is one missing block in each column, in rows 16, 15, 18, 20, 1, and 12, respectively. Taking A=1, B=2, etc, we get PORTAL.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

"Dude, I think my MP3 player is freakin' broken."
"Oh? What makes you think that?"
"Well, it won't display song titles or artists' names correctly anymore. I found this awesome song called 'Aeiou' by the little-known artist Bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz, but it only shows up on my MP3 player as vvvvv by ccccccccccccccccccccc."
"Huh. That's odd."
"And look at all these other song titles that it's screwing up!"

cvc'c cvcccvvc ccvc cvcc by "cvvcc vc" cvccvcvc
ccvv cvcc by cccccc ccccccc
cvccvc, cvccvc, cvccvc, cccvccvc by cvcc cvcc
v vc ccv cvccvc by ccv cvvccvc
cvcv cvccvc' by ccv cvv cvvc
cvcvcvvc ccvccvcc by cvvvc
v cvc'c cvvcc ccvc by cc cvccvc

-- mathgrant

yuethomas · Daedalian Member

Reloaded:

2rd is Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
4th is I Am The Walrus by The Beatles

Return: I have the following words...

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Courk · Daedalian Member

I found Lid, Socket, Humor, and Brow.

Courk · Daedalian Member

Also, columns 89ABCD on rows RST spell "WOL" or low backwards.

JKL 1-4 spells NO

Kargach · Daedalian Member

Courk · Daedalian Member

Here's the various braille grids you can get.

Courk · Daedalian Member

cvcv cvccvc' by ccv cvv cvvc

Jive Talkin' by The Bee Gees.

mikeamok · Daedalian Member

Zag · Tired of his old title

groza, that Braille puzzle is pretty cool. It should have gotten a thread by itself.

groza528 · No Place Like Home

Are you saying it's not quick enough? Wink

I have no problem moving it to a separate thread and handing the baton to someone else.

Return of the Quickies · Solved That One!

I've made a new thread for the Braille on account of it not being quick enough. Link: http://www.greylabyrinth.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?p=447485#447485
In the meanwhile, here's something a little quicker to keep the thread moving.

yuethomas · Daedalian Member

1st row: ROCK, PAPER, SCISSOR, WATER, TREE?
2nd row: -, -, ?, -, -
3rd row: MUSIC? SOUND?, WOLF, -, FIRE?, -
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jbvntx · Daedalian Member

I have so far...

1) Rock, Dwane Johnson
paper, news
scissors, pommel horse
water, molecule
alignment, menu
2) frog, toad, lizard
Greased Lightning, jack, 1948 Ford, Danny, Sandy
?
gas?
snake, toilet jack
3) staff, music, composition
wolf blitzer, cnn
donkey, pegasus, dragon, winged
fired, canned
"March of Progress", evolution, man, cro magnon

Some themes in the rows/columns may be:
Rock,Paper,Scissors
Water, Gas, Fire
Jack (second row)
Horses (third column)
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Zag · Tired of his old title

The first one in the second row is a Komodo Dragon, I think, which plays well with the dragon in the middle of the bottom. The last picture in the second row is a snake, and I think that the second one is from the musical Grease.

Who is that whom you've labeled 'Wolf"?

1st row: ROCK, PAPER, SCISSOR, WATER, TREE?
2nd row: Dragon?, Grease?, ?, -, SNAKE
3rd row: (MUSIC? SOUND?), WOLF, Dragon, FIRE/FIRED?, -

Dented Ford · Hoopy Frood

Row 2 col 2 is the "Greased Lightning" scene from "Grease"

Row 2 col 5 I think is a "toilet snorkel" - patented by someone as a device to use in the event of being trapped in a burning building, filling with smoke, and allows the user to breath the "clean" air from the sewer pipe beyond the U bend. I saw it on QI, so it might not be reliable info!

Dented Ford · Hoopy Frood

Whew, lots of posts in between starting to type and posting!

So, dragons breathe fire, a toilet snorkel helps you breathe in a fire...

Zag · Tired of his old title

Dented Ford · Hoopy Frood

OK, the pic is not the same:

so it probably is just a plumber's device.

Return of the Quickies · Solved That One!

I've got it, but have no new Quickie

Quickies Reloaded · Icarian Member

I just got this one. Passing it on... - yuethomas

Return of the Quickies · Solved That One!

OK, and this one too... - yuethomas

Quickies Reloaded · Icarian Member

Okay, I got that one from all the songs that you have found out already Revenge most foul!

- Ctuchik

mathgrant · A very tilted cell member

I'm pretty sure the rook at h1 is the first piece White needs to move. It seems obvious.

Wait. . . how can Black have 10 pieces on the board? Unless I suck at chess, it would seem that White needs to have made at least 8 pawn captures.
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Ctuchik · Daedalian Member

You're right! That's because there ought to be a black pawn on d6. xD
It didn't change the solution, though! It's now corrected.
Oh, and it is black to move!

Return of the Quickies · Solved That One!

Huzzah! I finally got that one. - Scurra
Answer: sponge. They are all throws in RPS15 (which extends the set from the original 3.) I had actually twigged this quite early, but missed the answer word off my list when I was checking them!

And here's a replacement.

Oh dear. I dropped one of my tiles on the floor...

Grab some sleep, annoy some insects and force down some vegetables?

AZu · Daedalian Member

For Quickies Reloaded I get :

1.a2 Rxb1 2.Rg4+ Kd3 3.Ne5++

But that doesn't seem to be the password. Am I wrong?

mathgrant · A very tilted cell member

Whew. Glad I noticed that the chessboard was kinda screwy. =O

Also, does anyone care to solve the last song title in my puzzle, and discern the password? Or shall I spoil?

Maybe I suck at chess again, but ~~I think Kd3 is an illegal move, because the king would then be in check by the bishop at b1~~ Never mind. There is no bishop there once it's captured. Yup. I suck at chess. Don't highlight the invisi-text. Please. For the love of all that is holy. <3
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