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Apophis
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It was brilliant. In fact, I wish I could find more like this. I'd buy a book of them. |
NSNick
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So, now that you all see the answer, what do you think of my puzzle?
And para, if it were that easy, I would.  |
paraplayer
Posts: 179/280 |
damnit make another puzzle like this i wanna win! |
Apophis
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Gaaah! So close! Well, good job everyone! Congrats, Jagori! |
NSNick
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Originally posted by Jagori
Eliminate all the words with two of the letter "e" in them. You get:
Four divided by two equals what [?]
The answer is two.
[edit, in case that's not enough reasoning]
I noticed that almost all of the words have two of the letter "e" in them. The use of "theirselfs" rather than "theirselves" is an unusual choice of word, but it's chosen to fit that two-e rule. Playing off what Apophis said about eliminating stuff with E in it, I got rid of all the two-e words and was left with the above phrase. The rest is history.
We have a winner! Yes, the key was to eliminate all words with two Es in them. The dropshadow on the E in Eliminate was the clue there, along with the word choice. Good job on getting it, Jagori! Apophis, good job on leading everyone down the right path. You were so close. |
paraplayer
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ack i was completely off. oh well i looked up cedes for everyone here at least...
Every queen cedes-- frenzied fleetly becomes seven, seven becomes seventy. these assemblages frequently disperse theirselfs, thereby lessening every queen's . examples evidencing theirself entailed rebels, even generals. These reached Queen educed Lenore's legendary excerpt, "Rebellion treachery degrades generals overwhelmingly feel, allegiance
thats the paragraph with all the words without 2 "E"S removed
four Divided, by . Two equals what
4/2 = 2
EDIT: Oh jeez is the amswer 4/2 = 2?
EDIT AGAIN: I used a calculater does that disqualify me? |
Jagori
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Eliminate all the words with two of the letter "e" in them. You get:
Four divided by two equals what [?]
The answer is two.
[edit, in case that's not enough reasoning]
I noticed that almost all of the words have two of the letter "e" in them. The use of "theirselfs" rather than "theirselves" is an unusual choice of word, but it's chosen to fit that two-e rule. Playing off what Apophis said about eliminating stuff with E in it, I got rid of all the two-e words and was left with the above phrase. The rest is history. |
Apophis
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more literally, 4 by 2 could be 42. |
NSNick
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Originally posted by Teddylot
Does the title of your riddle have anything to do with the question/answer?
Simply put, yes. Apophis is the closest I've seen so far. But still wrong, so far. |
Apophis
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Originally posted by NSNick
Every queen cedes-- four frenzied people fleetly becomes seven, seven becomes seventy. Divided, these assemblages frequently disperse by theirselfs, thereby lessening every queen's responsibilities. Two examples evidencing theirself entailed rebels, even generals. These reached Queen Lenore & educed Lenore's legendary excerpt, "Rebellion equals treachery & degrades what generals overwhelmingly feel, allegiance."
The E is larger in the image. Does it have something to do with eliminating E's from the
text?
Removing all the words containing the letter E, we get: four by two what
4x2 = 8, so maybe the answer is 8?
then again...
he says "theirselfs" instead of "theirselves", which could be a clue to another answer |
Teddylot
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Does the title of your riddle have anything to do with the question/answer? |
Apophis
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Originally posted by NSNick
Every queen cedes-- four frenzied people fleetly becomes seven, seven becomes seventy. Divided, these assemblages frequently disperse by theirselfs, thereby lessening every queen's responsibilities. Two examples evidencing theirself entailed rebels, even generals. These reached Queen Lenore & educed Lenore's legendary excerpt, "Rebellion equals treachery & degrades what generals overwhelmingly feel, allegiance."
4+3 = 7
7*10= 70
70/2 = 35
The answer is 35 |
NSNick
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Hint: This is very much a lateral thinking puzzle.
Edit: Meaning, don't look at meaning of the literal paragraph. |
ziratha
Posts: 154/231 |
Well, my only thought was that maybe it had to do with a deck of cards. |
NSNick
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Originally posted by Grey
You're both way off.... 
That was the first route that I tried.
But don't you need to come up with a question and an answer from what you're told, NSNick?
Well, you definitely need to come up with an answer. I wouldn't say you have to "come up" with a question, so much as find it... |
Apophis
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people can also mean "a people", which would be the citizens of a nation or kingdom.
Therefore, I think this might be more in the right direction:
there are 3 queens and 1 king, with a total of four kingdoms and peoples. Each queen cedes a portion of her kingdom, resulting in 3 new kingdoms and peoples. Soon this new and unstable system resulted in the kingdoms' being split into 70 warring city-states. Fortunately, the queens did not have to deal with the responsibility of battling these city states. Internal rebellions and and power-hungry generals destroyed them from within. |
Grey the Stampede
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You're both way off....
That was the first route that I tried.
But don't you need to come up with a question and an answer from what you're told, NSNick? |
Dei*
Posts: 160/412 |
The Queen made a law, that got 4 people into a frenzy, they told 3 other people that joined them, then the entire town got into a frenzy, and then they all overthrew the ween and all was well?
You tell ME how I got this idea. Well, cedes tipped me off so I came up with this.  |
paraplayer
Posts: 148/280 |
omigosh double pos- shnaw screw it...
Well it's time for detective para to get out the dictionary...
The queen pisses 4 people off. these 4 people get 3 others into a frenzy. Then a riot breaks out and it becomes 70 frenzied people. Then umm... They die for some strange reason.. ...
noticed something else. the frenzied people our first added then multiplied then divided (then minused?)
EDIT: When to dictionary dot com.
cedes = To surrender possession of, especially by treaty.
assemblage = a group of persons together in one place [syn: gathering] 2: a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose [syn: hookup] 3: the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly" [syn: assembly, gathering] [ant: dismantling] 4: several things grouped together or considered as a whole [syn: collection, aggregation, accumulation]
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NSNick
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By the way, since no one seems to have gotten it- feel free to post here about what you're thinking, maybe try to solve it together?
And I may drop hints here and there. |
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