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As per title, can STW crack the code?
The answer is "Louise"
This first part: rudolp can ascend, south, east, east, descend... seems pretty short
Edit:
I see my mistake
a Polish cynophile fancies a:
PIE?
5. PICKY
Seaweed and Pies are the first two words
Carpentry is third
Director is the fourth
Picky is the fifth
For me Rudolf makes a 7 stage trip with a watery answer
The fourth one is Director (I think), agree Seaweed and Pies are the first two.
Coding is a woodworking answer
Carpentry
Just got the maths one. Five done. One more and sticking it together to go
OK, got all the clues. Still not sure of the message
Doh, just got the method. That means one of my answers is wrong. The rest are right, but I do have the final message.
Yep. Got all the addresses but nothing jumps out from their what3words locations. Someones garden in Gloucester, a wood on an island, and a layby in Cumbria!
Hang on. It is Christmas island. That's a start
1. Seaweed
2. Pies
3. Carpentry
4. Picky
5. Director
6. ??????
7. Opening
How do you do spoilers on this forum?
OK, got it all now. I still prefer my answer to the one I got wrong, but I accept it isn't THE answer
Someones garden in Gloucester, a wood on an island, and a layby in Cumbria!
You might have to zoom in or out a bit
6. ??????
Does the format of the first word look familiar?
Cheers Nickjb. Unfortunately on a PC the big 3 line symbol completely covers the place name in Cumbria so I had to go into an OS app to confirm what it was (being able to work it out from the rest of the clues)
I refuse to look at the answers above, but i simply cannot see what 4 and 6 are?? Can anyone explain their workings please?!?!?!?!?
I refuse to look at the answers above, but i simply cannot see what 4 and 6 are?? Can anyone explain their workings please?!?!?!?!?
4 isn't a puzzle really. Just follow the instruction and see what comes out.
6 is a classic code cypher. The first word has an interesting format that looks familiar.
Woohoo!
I wouldn't really describe the last one as mathematical, unless I'm missing something. I spent ages trying to find a formula for that one!
Can't get the cipher one
Can’t get the cipher one
You know what the last part will end up being. That's a clue to the first word
You know what the last part will end up being. That’s a clue to the first word
Got it, thank you. That was excellent!
Did it but didn't really get 4 or 6...
6 was easy to guess from the clue, no idea about the maths bit!
As for 4, worked out the answer by trying different words in W3W (already had the rest of it and was pretty sure what I was looking for). Now I know the answer, still not sure why that's the odd word!
still not sure why that’s the odd word
because it's not odd!
Ok... but neither are the other words
Am I being thick?
Am I being thick?
Nope, just too literal. If it's not odd, what could it be?
6 was easy to guess from the clue, no idea about the maths bit!
Agreed - is there some maths in there ? I'm just "what 7-letter word is what you'll be ..."
(Edit - recount tells me I'm wrong on "the")
((Edit-edit: it was "it's"))
If anyone can interpret that ^ kack, you may need to contact MI5 - tell them I sent you
(teh text I deleted said that only one word in those sentences appeared an even number of times)
There's no maths in there!
I just assumed it was 'Arguing' and worked back from there.
If it’s not odd, what could it be?
Umm... Even?
Unfortunately on a PC the big 3 line symbol completely covers the place name in Cumbria so I had to go into an OS app to confirm what it was (being able to work it out from the rest of the clues)
Or you could just click on a nearby square in W3W to move the symbol 😁
Umm… Even?
Yes, ahahaha
What, 'cos it's 2? There are other even numbers
What, ‘cos it’s 2? There are other even numbers
Which one are you talking about? I was giving clues to the 4th one (analysis):
As for 4, worked out the answer by trying different words in W3W (already had the rest of it and was pretty sure what I was looking for). Now I know the answer, still not sure why that’s the odd word!
But it sounds like you are stuck on the last one? This is hurting my brain more than the actual puzzle 😀
Mathematics -
2 or two 😉 = grOWTh
6 or six = eXISt …..
The language one is Kot. Chat in French is Cat,. An Ailurophile is a cat lover..
So Polish for dog is pies
@tonyd No you are correct I was talking about the analysis one.
I know the answer because I had the rest of the W3W address and just stuck in different words from the sentence until I found the right place! Just still can't see why "director" is "not odd".
As for the mathematics one... thanks oceanskipper... but that's just cheating... clever but not maths! Anyway they made that one too easy in the rest of the clue.
Just still can’t see why “director” is “not odd”.
"Odd" is odd and "even" is even if that helps
Just still can’t see why “director” is “not odd”.
count the letters!
Ooooohh right. Doh 😆
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2 or two 😉 = grOWTh
6 or six = eXISt …..
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Interesting. I didn't spot that, but got the same answer by a completely different route:
Assign each number a value according to its position in the alphabet (a=1, b=2, etc.)
Add up the values for all the letters in your word, giving a 2-digit answer.
Add those two digits together
Add 1 to the answer.
Works for Growth, Exist, and .... the answer.
But I now think that's a complete coincidence and I should have been reading backwards!!
I saw this and posted it here thinking it would suit the forum. Still haven’t had a look at the thing myself though. Will try and have a look at it and refer back to this thread for hints!
Managed it all, thankfully I never looked at the rest of the thread before I did.
For future reference spoiler tags are:
Late to the party, I've just rattled through this. Probably took me about 20 minutes?
The Coding one legged me up because I missed the instruction "at each step" and tried to do it all in one go. I initially got the wrong answer for Analysis (I thought it was "two") but that was obviously wrong when w3w spat it out as an invalid location - the words they use have a minimum of four letters.