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Geography at the pixel level
The 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results Are InSecret messages in the officeUSA geography puzzleLost in Translation: The TestCan you name this town?Where in the world is my friend?A Palindrome ChallengeThe writing is on the wall for these hieroglyphicsWhat can I be? (Second attempt)Charlie slept through geography at school19999 geography, medium difficulty
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The answer is a group of islands.
More properly "geography and language", I suppose.
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The answer is a group of islands.
More properly "geography and language", I suppose.
cipher knowledge language geography
asked 2 days ago
jafejafe
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I'll just take a moment to appreciate how cleverly made these puzzles are. @jafe you are ingenious. I wonder what you'll do seven puzzles later when you reach your 200th! :D
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@useruser477343 Thanks for the kind words :) Your #100 is just around the corner as well! Anything special planned?
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This is an amazing puzzle - so much packed into so little. You've got a real gift for puzzlecraft and presentation. If you're not publishing somewhere, you should be :)
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@Rubio Thanks <3
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The answer is a group of islands.
More properly "geography and language", I suppose.
cipher knowledge language geography
asked 2 days ago
jafejafe
25.8k475253
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(enlarged version)
The answer is a group of islands.
More properly "geography and language", I suppose.
cipher knowledge language geography
cipher knowledge language geography
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jafejafe
25.8k475253
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jafejafe
25.8k475253
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I'll just take a moment to appreciate how cleverly made these puzzles are. @jafe you are ingenious. I wonder what you'll do seven puzzles later when you reach your 200th! :D
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– user477343
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@useruser477343 Thanks for the kind words :) Your #100 is just around the corner as well! Anything special planned?
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– jafe
yesterday
5
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This is an amazing puzzle - so much packed into so little. You've got a real gift for puzzlecraft and presentation. If you're not publishing somewhere, you should be :)
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– Rubio♦
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@Rubio Thanks <3
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– jafe
19 hours ago
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I'll just take a moment to appreciate how cleverly made these puzzles are. @jafe you are ingenious. I wonder what you'll do seven puzzles later when you reach your 200th! :D
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– user477343
yesterday
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@useruser477343 Thanks for the kind words :) Your #100 is just around the corner as well! Anything special planned?
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– jafe
yesterday
5
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This is an amazing puzzle - so much packed into so little. You've got a real gift for puzzlecraft and presentation. If you're not publishing somewhere, you should be :)
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– Rubio♦
yesterday
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@Rubio Thanks <3
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– jafe
19 hours ago
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I'll just take a moment to appreciate how cleverly made these puzzles are. @jafe you are ingenious. I wonder what you'll do seven puzzles later when you reach your 200th! :D
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– user477343
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I'll just take a moment to appreciate how cleverly made these puzzles are. @jafe you are ingenious. I wonder what you'll do seven puzzles later when you reach your 200th! :D
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– user477343
yesterday
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@useruser477343 Thanks for the kind words :) Your #100 is just around the corner as well! Anything special planned?
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– jafe
yesterday
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@useruser477343 Thanks for the kind words :) Your #100 is just around the corner as well! Anything special planned?
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– jafe
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This is an amazing puzzle - so much packed into so little. You've got a real gift for puzzlecraft and presentation. If you're not publishing somewhere, you should be :)
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– Rubio♦
yesterday
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This is an amazing puzzle - so much packed into so little. You've got a real gift for puzzlecraft and presentation. If you're not publishing somewhere, you should be :)
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– Rubio♦
yesterday
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@Rubio Thanks <3
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Looks like
Each section of the image is an 8-letter geographical location or adjective:
1 WOODRING: QR code
2 WATZMANN: Chappe system for semaphore telegraph
3 VICTORIA: just upside-down (and pixelated)
4 TITICACA: Arabic
5 WARUSAWA: Japanese Braille
6 WELIRANG: Morse code
7 MEDELPAD: hexadecimal ASCII
8 SURINAME: Bopomofo
9 SHERWOOD: International Phonetic Alphabet
10 THAILAND: in the negative space
11 SIHLWALD: plain text, spaced out with empty lines
12 GODAVARI: tap code
13 MONROVIA: faces of dice and mathematical operations, decoded with successive results as A1Z26
14 RIONEGRO: higher rows shifted one pixel right
15 NAGALAND: Cyrillic
16 MOLDOVAN: number the inside spaces 1-26, read off each piece as A1Z26
17 MICHIGAN: Shavian
18 SAARLAND: flag semaphore
19 DEMERARA: jigsaw puzzle
20 MANDARIN: Japanese katakana
21 MANDINKA: Moon type
22 EYREWELL: binary in negative space
23 BOTSWANA: Roman numerals in negative space (A1Z26)
24 CANBERRA: Pigpen cipher
25 FUNAFUTI: Futhark runes
26 KINGSTON: Deseret
27 WINNIPEG: each row in the box is binary
28 KIRIBATI: Hebrew
29 SINDARIN: plain text, just really small
30 BELGOROD: T-shaped "arrows" tell the direction of the next letter, and number of pixels behind them tell how far to move.
31 GISHWATI: each row has 26 spaces, read black pixels as A1Z26
32 MISSOURI: Greek
Once all of the places are found,
these fit in 8 categories, having 4 entries each:
$ quad bullet $ Mountains: WATZMANN, WARUSAWA, WELIRANG, WOODRING
$ quad bullet $ Lakes: VICTORIA, TITICACA, WINNIPEG, MICHIGAN
$ quad bullet $ Capital cities: MONROVIA, CANBERRA, FUNAFUTI, KINGSTON
$ quad bullet $ Languages: MOLDOVAN, MANDINKA, MANDARIN, SINDARIN.
$ quad bullet $ Forests: SHERWOOD, SIHLWALD, EYREWELL, GISHWATI
$ quad bullet $ Countries/sovereign states: THAILAND, SURINAME, BOTSWANA, KIRIBATI
$ quad bullet $ Rivers: GODAVARI, RIO NEGRO, MISSOURI, DEMERARA
$ quad bullet $ Provinces/territories: MEDELPAD, NAGALAND, SAARLAND, BELGOROD
Inside each category all the entries have a common letter in the same position, and no letter position is the same between any two categories. These letters spell out WINDWARD, which refers to the Windward Islands.
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I think #3 is Victoria upside-down
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– Ivan García Topete
2 days ago
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Hey, I spotted instantly that #2 is related to this guy, and the cipher can be found here.
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– Brandon_J
2 days ago
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#26 is this capital city in Deseret.
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– M Oehm
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Oh wait, #19 actually belongs in the rot13(eviref pngrtbel), as per here! I’ll fix that real quick
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– PiIsNot3
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Partial (refer to community wiki for notation)
1:
woodring (by OmegaKrypton)
5:
warusawa [braille] (by elias)
6:
welirang [morse] (by elias) - typo in puzzle, a space missing between the last two characters
9:
sherwood (by OmegaKrypton)
27:
Winnipeg (by Gremlin) - binary pixels
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Some more:
4. Titicaca (Arabic)
12. Godavari (tap code)
22. Eyrewell (inverse binary)
25. Funafuti (futhark)
28. Kiribati (Hebrew)
32. Missouri (Greek)
Other remarks:
The katakana one (20) looks to me as if it says "ma so da ri so" which I can't identify.
answered 2 days ago
Gareth McCaughan♦Gareth McCaughan
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ma-so-da-ri-so seems two be 2 characters too long, so probably 'so' needs to be replaced with a single character. mandarin looks like a good solution, but how is that geographical?
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Dunno! I am just as puzzled as you are.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
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Ech, I redrew that letter in #20 so many times and now that I look at it it still looks wrong... Mandarin is correct.
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Partial
8.
SURIBAME(?) (Taiwanese Mandarin Zhuyin) -> I think this one should be SURINAME, but the N character is kinda wonky...
29.
SINDARIN (very pixelated letters)
(Will add more as I figure them out)
As for the meta, I have found that
every geographic location can fit into one of eight categories, with each category having four locations - somewhat like a connect wall. I’ve listed the categories here, along with the locations and the regions they represent:
$ quad bullet $ Mountains: WATZMANN (German), WARUSAWA (Japan), WELIRANG (Indonesia), WOODRING (United States)
$ quad bullet $ Lakes: VICTORIA (Tanzania/Uganda), TITICACA (Peru/Bolivia), WINNIPEG (Canada), ???
$ quad bullet $ Forests: SHERWOOD (England), SIHLWALD (Switzerland), EYREWELL (New Zealand), GISHWATI (Rwanda)
$ quad bullet $ Provinces/territories: MEDELPAD (Sweden), NAGALAND (India), SAARLAND (Germany), DEMERARA (Guyana)
$ quad bullet $ Countries/sovereign states: THAILAND (Asia), SURINAME (South America), BOTSWANA (Africa), KIRIBATI (Micronesia/Oceania)
$ quad bullet $ Rivers: GODAVARI (India), RIO NEGRO (Brazil/Venezuela/Colombia), MISSOURI (United States), ???
$ quad bullet $ Capital cities: MONROVIA (Liberia), CANBERRA (Australia), FUNAFUTI (Tuvalu), ???
$ quad bullet $ Languages: MOLDOVAN (Moldova), MANDINKA (Ivory Coast), MANDARIN (China), SINDARIN (fictional/Middle-earth)
So the three unsolved clues must fit into one of three categories: lakes, rivers, and capital cities. Maybe that’ll make things a bit easier?
I’ll add this to the community wiki once the other three clues are solved.
answered 2 days ago
PiIsNot3PiIsNot3
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Nice observation, I think I've found the solution based on your idea. I've added it to the community wiki - and it will help us finding the missing 3 entries as well.
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Demerara and Thailand probably should be swapped (if my next observation is correct)
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2:
WATZMANN - Semaphore Telegraph Chappe System
answered 2 days ago
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Hey, you found it, too!
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Some more:
14.
Rio Negro (every row is shifted to the right one pixel further)
17.
Michigan (in Shavian alphabet)
31.
Gishwati (every row has one pixel, number of pixel corresponds to alphabet number)
Additionally, regarding the final answer,
I think that after all the eight-letter words are discovered, we'll find that there's exactly one letter for each of the 8 positions that doesn't occur in any of the words.
answered 2 days ago
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I don't think your guess about the final extraction can be right. E.g., the last letters so far are all ADIGLNO and only eight answers are un-found, so there's no way to eliminate all but one of the possibilities.
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(I'm guessing majority rather than omission.)
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(Though if so then I think at least one of the current majorities must be misleading.)
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Mandarin (japanese katakana -> マンダリン)
@ user Gareth McCaughan♦
I agree that its a bit difficult since the "so"and "n" look a lot like eachother and since its pixels it looks more like a "so"
answered 2 days ago
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16.
We have : 13, 15 ; 12 ; 4, 15, 22 ; 1, 14.
It gives us : M O ; L; D O V; A N.
Moldovan
answered 2 days ago
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21:
MANDINKA written in Moon type
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A guess at the final answer based on the clues everyone else solved and Gareth McCaughan's predicted method:
So far taking the most common letter in each position gives:
MINDWANA
That's not an island group, but if we look at the second most common letters:
WARRIORD
So if the missing answers allow the second placed letter to overtake the current leader in positions 1, 7, and 8, we get:
WINDWARDfor the Windward Islands.
answered yesterday
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#26
is Kingston in the Deseret alphabet.
#30
is Belgorod. Start at the beginning of the alphabet. For each arrow, add an offset. Upwards arrows go forward in the alphabet, downward arrows go backwards: start + 2 → B + 3 → E + 7 → L and so on.
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Looks like
Each section of the image is an 8-letter geographical location or adjective:
1 WOODRING: QR code
2 WATZMANN: Chappe system for semaphore telegraph
3 VICTORIA: just upside-down (and pixelated)
4 TITICACA: Arabic
5 WARUSAWA: Japanese Braille
6 WELIRANG: Morse code
7 MEDELPAD: hexadecimal ASCII
8 SURINAME: Bopomofo
9 SHERWOOD: International Phonetic Alphabet
10 THAILAND: in the negative space
11 SIHLWALD: plain text, spaced out with empty lines
12 GODAVARI: tap code
13 MONROVIA: faces of dice and mathematical operations, decoded with successive results as A1Z26
14 RIONEGRO: higher rows shifted one pixel right
15 NAGALAND: Cyrillic
16 MOLDOVAN: number the inside spaces 1-26, read off each piece as A1Z26
17 MICHIGAN: Shavian
18 SAARLAND: flag semaphore
19 DEMERARA: jigsaw puzzle
20 MANDARIN: Japanese katakana
21 MANDINKA: Moon type
22 EYREWELL: binary in negative space
23 BOTSWANA: Roman numerals in negative space (A1Z26)
24 CANBERRA: Pigpen cipher
25 FUNAFUTI: Futhark runes
26 KINGSTON: Deseret
27 WINNIPEG: each row in the box is binary
28 KIRIBATI: Hebrew
29 SINDARIN: plain text, just really small
30 BELGOROD: T-shaped "arrows" tell the direction of the next letter, and number of pixels behind them tell how far to move.
31 GISHWATI: each row has 26 spaces, read black pixels as A1Z26
32 MISSOURI: Greek
Once all of the places are found,
these fit in 8 categories, having 4 entries each:
$ quad bullet $ Mountains: WATZMANN, WARUSAWA, WELIRANG, WOODRING
$ quad bullet $ Lakes: VICTORIA, TITICACA, WINNIPEG, MICHIGAN
$ quad bullet $ Capital cities: MONROVIA, CANBERRA, FUNAFUTI, KINGSTON
$ quad bullet $ Languages: MOLDOVAN, MANDINKA, MANDARIN, SINDARIN.
$ quad bullet $ Forests: SHERWOOD, SIHLWALD, EYREWELL, GISHWATI
$ quad bullet $ Countries/sovereign states: THAILAND, SURINAME, BOTSWANA, KIRIBATI
$ quad bullet $ Rivers: GODAVARI, RIO NEGRO, MISSOURI, DEMERARA
$ quad bullet $ Provinces/territories: MEDELPAD, NAGALAND, SAARLAND, BELGOROD
Inside each category all the entries have a common letter in the same position, and no letter position is the same between any two categories. These letters spell out WINDWARD, which refers to the Windward Islands.
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I think #3 is Victoria upside-down
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– Ivan García Topete
2 days ago
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Hey, I spotted instantly that #2 is related to this guy, and the cipher can be found here.
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– Brandon_J
2 days ago
3
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#26 is this capital city in Deseret.
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– M Oehm
yesterday
2
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Oh wait, #19 actually belongs in the rot13(eviref pngrtbel), as per here! I’ll fix that real quick
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– PiIsNot3
yesterday
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I would like an explanation to how these were decoded
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– Kruga
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show 7 more comments
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Looks like
Each section of the image is an 8-letter geographical location or adjective:
1 WOODRING: QR code
2 WATZMANN: Chappe system for semaphore telegraph
3 VICTORIA: just upside-down (and pixelated)
4 TITICACA: Arabic
5 WARUSAWA: Japanese Braille
6 WELIRANG: Morse code
7 MEDELPAD: hexadecimal ASCII
8 SURINAME: Bopomofo
9 SHERWOOD: International Phonetic Alphabet
10 THAILAND: in the negative space
11 SIHLWALD: plain text, spaced out with empty lines
12 GODAVARI: tap code
13 MONROVIA: faces of dice and mathematical operations, decoded with successive results as A1Z26
14 RIONEGRO: higher rows shifted one pixel right
15 NAGALAND: Cyrillic
16 MOLDOVAN: number the inside spaces 1-26, read off each piece as A1Z26
17 MICHIGAN: Shavian
18 SAARLAND: flag semaphore
19 DEMERARA: jigsaw puzzle
20 MANDARIN: Japanese katakana
21 MANDINKA: Moon type
22 EYREWELL: binary in negative space
23 BOTSWANA: Roman numerals in negative space (A1Z26)
24 CANBERRA: Pigpen cipher
25 FUNAFUTI: Futhark runes
26 KINGSTON: Deseret
27 WINNIPEG: each row in the box is binary
28 KIRIBATI: Hebrew
29 SINDARIN: plain text, just really small
30 BELGOROD: T-shaped "arrows" tell the direction of the next letter, and number of pixels behind them tell how far to move.
31 GISHWATI: each row has 26 spaces, read black pixels as A1Z26
32 MISSOURI: Greek
Once all of the places are found,
these fit in 8 categories, having 4 entries each:
$ quad bullet $ Mountains: WATZMANN, WARUSAWA, WELIRANG, WOODRING
$ quad bullet $ Lakes: VICTORIA, TITICACA, WINNIPEG, MICHIGAN
$ quad bullet $ Capital cities: MONROVIA, CANBERRA, FUNAFUTI, KINGSTON
$ quad bullet $ Languages: MOLDOVAN, MANDINKA, MANDARIN, SINDARIN.
$ quad bullet $ Forests: SHERWOOD, SIHLWALD, EYREWELL, GISHWATI
$ quad bullet $ Countries/sovereign states: THAILAND, SURINAME, BOTSWANA, KIRIBATI
$ quad bullet $ Rivers: GODAVARI, RIO NEGRO, MISSOURI, DEMERARA
$ quad bullet $ Provinces/territories: MEDELPAD, NAGALAND, SAARLAND, BELGOROD
Inside each category all the entries have a common letter in the same position, and no letter position is the same between any two categories. These letters spell out WINDWARD, which refers to the Windward Islands.
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I think #3 is Victoria upside-down
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– Ivan García Topete
2 days ago
2
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Hey, I spotted instantly that #2 is related to this guy, and the cipher can be found here.
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– Brandon_J
2 days ago
3
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#26 is this capital city in Deseret.
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– M Oehm
yesterday
2
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Oh wait, #19 actually belongs in the rot13(eviref pngrtbel), as per here! I’ll fix that real quick
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– PiIsNot3
yesterday
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I would like an explanation to how these were decoded
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Looks like
Each section of the image is an 8-letter geographical location or adjective:
1 WOODRING: QR code
2 WATZMANN: Chappe system for semaphore telegraph
3 VICTORIA: just upside-down (and pixelated)
4 TITICACA: Arabic
5 WARUSAWA: Japanese Braille
6 WELIRANG: Morse code
7 MEDELPAD: hexadecimal ASCII
8 SURINAME: Bopomofo
9 SHERWOOD: International Phonetic Alphabet
10 THAILAND: in the negative space
11 SIHLWALD: plain text, spaced out with empty lines
12 GODAVARI: tap code
13 MONROVIA: faces of dice and mathematical operations, decoded with successive results as A1Z26
14 RIONEGRO: higher rows shifted one pixel right
15 NAGALAND: Cyrillic
16 MOLDOVAN: number the inside spaces 1-26, read off each piece as A1Z26
17 MICHIGAN: Shavian
18 SAARLAND: flag semaphore
19 DEMERARA: jigsaw puzzle
20 MANDARIN: Japanese katakana
21 MANDINKA: Moon type
22 EYREWELL: binary in negative space
23 BOTSWANA: Roman numerals in negative space (A1Z26)
24 CANBERRA: Pigpen cipher
25 FUNAFUTI: Futhark runes
26 KINGSTON: Deseret
27 WINNIPEG: each row in the box is binary
28 KIRIBATI: Hebrew
29 SINDARIN: plain text, just really small
30 BELGOROD: T-shaped "arrows" tell the direction of the next letter, and number of pixels behind them tell how far to move.
31 GISHWATI: each row has 26 spaces, read black pixels as A1Z26
32 MISSOURI: Greek
Once all of the places are found,
these fit in 8 categories, having 4 entries each:
$ quad bullet $ Mountains: WATZMANN, WARUSAWA, WELIRANG, WOODRING
$ quad bullet $ Lakes: VICTORIA, TITICACA, WINNIPEG, MICHIGAN
$ quad bullet $ Capital cities: MONROVIA, CANBERRA, FUNAFUTI, KINGSTON
$ quad bullet $ Languages: MOLDOVAN, MANDINKA, MANDARIN, SINDARIN.
$ quad bullet $ Forests: SHERWOOD, SIHLWALD, EYREWELL, GISHWATI
$ quad bullet $ Countries/sovereign states: THAILAND, SURINAME, BOTSWANA, KIRIBATI
$ quad bullet $ Rivers: GODAVARI, RIO NEGRO, MISSOURI, DEMERARA
$ quad bullet $ Provinces/territories: MEDELPAD, NAGALAND, SAARLAND, BELGOROD
Inside each category all the entries have a common letter in the same position, and no letter position is the same between any two categories. These letters spell out WINDWARD, which refers to the Windward Islands.
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Looks like
Each section of the image is an 8-letter geographical location or adjective:
1 WOODRING: QR code
2 WATZMANN: Chappe system for semaphore telegraph
3 VICTORIA: just upside-down (and pixelated)
4 TITICACA: Arabic
5 WARUSAWA: Japanese Braille
6 WELIRANG: Morse code
7 MEDELPAD: hexadecimal ASCII
8 SURINAME: Bopomofo
9 SHERWOOD: International Phonetic Alphabet
10 THAILAND: in the negative space
11 SIHLWALD: plain text, spaced out with empty lines
12 GODAVARI: tap code
13 MONROVIA: faces of dice and mathematical operations, decoded with successive results as A1Z26
14 RIONEGRO: higher rows shifted one pixel right
15 NAGALAND: Cyrillic
16 MOLDOVAN: number the inside spaces 1-26, read off each piece as A1Z26
17 MICHIGAN: Shavian
18 SAARLAND: flag semaphore
19 DEMERARA: jigsaw puzzle
20 MANDARIN: Japanese katakana
21 MANDINKA: Moon type
22 EYREWELL: binary in negative space
23 BOTSWANA: Roman numerals in negative space (A1Z26)
24 CANBERRA: Pigpen cipher
25 FUNAFUTI: Futhark runes
26 KINGSTON: Deseret
27 WINNIPEG: each row in the box is binary
28 KIRIBATI: Hebrew
29 SINDARIN: plain text, just really small
30 BELGOROD: T-shaped "arrows" tell the direction of the next letter, and number of pixels behind them tell how far to move.
31 GISHWATI: each row has 26 spaces, read black pixels as A1Z26
32 MISSOURI: Greek
Once all of the places are found,
these fit in 8 categories, having 4 entries each:
$ quad bullet $ Mountains: WATZMANN, WARUSAWA, WELIRANG, WOODRING
$ quad bullet $ Lakes: VICTORIA, TITICACA, WINNIPEG, MICHIGAN
$ quad bullet $ Capital cities: MONROVIA, CANBERRA, FUNAFUTI, KINGSTON
$ quad bullet $ Languages: MOLDOVAN, MANDINKA, MANDARIN, SINDARIN.
$ quad bullet $ Forests: SHERWOOD, SIHLWALD, EYREWELL, GISHWATI
$ quad bullet $ Countries/sovereign states: THAILAND, SURINAME, BOTSWANA, KIRIBATI
$ quad bullet $ Rivers: GODAVARI, RIO NEGRO, MISSOURI, DEMERARA
$ quad bullet $ Provinces/territories: MEDELPAD, NAGALAND, SAARLAND, BELGOROD
Inside each category all the entries have a common letter in the same position, and no letter position is the same between any two categories. These letters spell out WINDWARD, which refers to the Windward Islands.
edited 19 hours ago
community wiki
21 revs, 4 users 50%
elias
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I think #3 is Victoria upside-down
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– Ivan García Topete
2 days ago
2
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Hey, I spotted instantly that #2 is related to this guy, and the cipher can be found here.
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– Brandon_J
2 days ago
3
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#26 is this capital city in Deseret.
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– M Oehm
yesterday
2
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Oh wait, #19 actually belongs in the rot13(eviref pngrtbel), as per here! I’ll fix that real quick
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– PiIsNot3
yesterday
5
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I would like an explanation to how these were decoded
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– Kruga
yesterday
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3
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I think #3 is Victoria upside-down
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– Ivan García Topete
2 days ago
2
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Hey, I spotted instantly that #2 is related to this guy, and the cipher can be found here.
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– Brandon_J
2 days ago
3
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#26 is this capital city in Deseret.
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– M Oehm
yesterday
2
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Oh wait, #19 actually belongs in the rot13(eviref pngrtbel), as per here! I’ll fix that real quick
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– PiIsNot3
yesterday
5
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I would like an explanation to how these were decoded
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– Kruga
yesterday
3
3
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I think #3 is Victoria upside-down
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– Ivan García Topete
2 days ago
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I think #3 is Victoria upside-down
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– Ivan García Topete
2 days ago
2
2
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Hey, I spotted instantly that #2 is related to this guy, and the cipher can be found here.
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– Brandon_J
2 days ago
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Hey, I spotted instantly that #2 is related to this guy, and the cipher can be found here.
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– Brandon_J
2 days ago
3
3
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#26 is this capital city in Deseret.
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– M Oehm
yesterday
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#26 is this capital city in Deseret.
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– M Oehm
yesterday
2
2
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Oh wait, #19 actually belongs in the rot13(eviref pngrtbel), as per here! I’ll fix that real quick
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– PiIsNot3
yesterday
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Oh wait, #19 actually belongs in the rot13(eviref pngrtbel), as per here! I’ll fix that real quick
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– PiIsNot3
yesterday
5
5
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I would like an explanation to how these were decoded
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– Kruga
yesterday
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I would like an explanation to how these were decoded
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yesterday
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Partial (refer to community wiki for notation)
1:
woodring (by OmegaKrypton)
5:
warusawa [braille] (by elias)
6:
welirang [morse] (by elias) - typo in puzzle, a space missing between the last two characters
9:
sherwood (by OmegaKrypton)
27:
Winnipeg (by Gremlin) - binary pixels
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Partial (refer to community wiki for notation)
1:
woodring (by OmegaKrypton)
5:
warusawa [braille] (by elias)
6:
welirang [morse] (by elias) - typo in puzzle, a space missing between the last two characters
9:
sherwood (by OmegaKrypton)
27:
Winnipeg (by Gremlin) - binary pixels
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add a comment |
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Partial (refer to community wiki for notation)
1:
woodring (by OmegaKrypton)
5:
warusawa [braille] (by elias)
6:
welirang [morse] (by elias) - typo in puzzle, a space missing between the last two characters
9:
sherwood (by OmegaKrypton)
27:
Winnipeg (by Gremlin) - binary pixels
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Partial (refer to community wiki for notation)
1:
woodring (by OmegaKrypton)
5:
warusawa [braille] (by elias)
6:
welirang [morse] (by elias) - typo in puzzle, a space missing between the last two characters
9:
sherwood (by OmegaKrypton)
27:
Winnipeg (by Gremlin) - binary pixels
edited 2 days ago
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3 revs, 3 users 86%
Omega Krypton
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Some more:
4. Titicaca (Arabic)
12. Godavari (tap code)
22. Eyrewell (inverse binary)
25. Funafuti (futhark)
28. Kiribati (Hebrew)
32. Missouri (Greek)
Other remarks:
The katakana one (20) looks to me as if it says "ma so da ri so" which I can't identify.
answered 2 days ago
Gareth McCaughan♦Gareth McCaughan
67.3k3170261
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3
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ma-so-da-ri-so seems two be 2 characters too long, so probably 'so' needs to be replaced with a single character. mandarin looks like a good solution, but how is that geographical?
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– elias
2 days ago
2
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Dunno! I am just as puzzled as you are.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
1
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Ech, I redrew that letter in #20 so many times and now that I look at it it still looks wrong... Mandarin is correct.
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– jafe
2 days ago
add a comment |
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Some more:
4. Titicaca (Arabic)
12. Godavari (tap code)
22. Eyrewell (inverse binary)
25. Funafuti (futhark)
28. Kiribati (Hebrew)
32. Missouri (Greek)
Other remarks:
The katakana one (20) looks to me as if it says "ma so da ri so" which I can't identify.
answered 2 days ago
Gareth McCaughan♦Gareth McCaughan
67.3k3170261
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3
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ma-so-da-ri-so seems two be 2 characters too long, so probably 'so' needs to be replaced with a single character. mandarin looks like a good solution, but how is that geographical?
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– elias
2 days ago
2
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Dunno! I am just as puzzled as you are.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
1
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Ech, I redrew that letter in #20 so many times and now that I look at it it still looks wrong... Mandarin is correct.
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– jafe
2 days ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
Some more:
4. Titicaca (Arabic)
12. Godavari (tap code)
22. Eyrewell (inverse binary)
25. Funafuti (futhark)
28. Kiribati (Hebrew)
32. Missouri (Greek)
Other remarks:
The katakana one (20) looks to me as if it says "ma so da ri so" which I can't identify.
answered 2 days ago
Gareth McCaughan♦Gareth McCaughan
67.3k3170261
$endgroup$
Some more:
4. Titicaca (Arabic)
12. Godavari (tap code)
22. Eyrewell (inverse binary)
25. Funafuti (futhark)
28. Kiribati (Hebrew)
32. Missouri (Greek)
Other remarks:
The katakana one (20) looks to me as if it says "ma so da ri so" which I can't identify.
answered 2 days ago
Gareth McCaughan♦Gareth McCaughan
67.3k3170261
edited 2 days ago
answered 2 days ago
Gareth McCaughan♦Gareth McCaughan
67.3k3170261
answered 2 days ago
Gareth McCaughan♦Gareth McCaughan
67.3k3170261
answered 2 days ago
Gareth McCaughan♦Gareth McCaughan
67.3k3170261
67.3k3170261
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ma-so-da-ri-so seems two be 2 characters too long, so probably 'so' needs to be replaced with a single character. mandarin looks like a good solution, but how is that geographical?
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– elias
2 days ago
2
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Dunno! I am just as puzzled as you are.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
1
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Ech, I redrew that letter in #20 so many times and now that I look at it it still looks wrong... Mandarin is correct.
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– jafe
2 days ago
add a comment |
3
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ma-so-da-ri-so seems two be 2 characters too long, so probably 'so' needs to be replaced with a single character. mandarin looks like a good solution, but how is that geographical?
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– elias
2 days ago
2
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Dunno! I am just as puzzled as you are.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
1
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Ech, I redrew that letter in #20 so many times and now that I look at it it still looks wrong... Mandarin is correct.
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– jafe
2 days ago
3
3
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ma-so-da-ri-so seems two be 2 characters too long, so probably 'so' needs to be replaced with a single character. mandarin looks like a good solution, but how is that geographical?
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– elias
2 days ago
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ma-so-da-ri-so seems two be 2 characters too long, so probably 'so' needs to be replaced with a single character. mandarin looks like a good solution, but how is that geographical?
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– elias
2 days ago
2
2
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Dunno! I am just as puzzled as you are.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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Dunno! I am just as puzzled as you are.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
1
1
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Ech, I redrew that letter in #20 so many times and now that I look at it it still looks wrong... Mandarin is correct.
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– jafe
2 days ago
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Ech, I redrew that letter in #20 so many times and now that I look at it it still looks wrong... Mandarin is correct.
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– jafe
2 days ago
add a comment |
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Partial
8.
SURIBAME(?) (Taiwanese Mandarin Zhuyin) -> I think this one should be SURINAME, but the N character is kinda wonky...
29.
SINDARIN (very pixelated letters)
(Will add more as I figure them out)
As for the meta, I have found that
every geographic location can fit into one of eight categories, with each category having four locations - somewhat like a connect wall. I’ve listed the categories here, along with the locations and the regions they represent:
$ quad bullet $ Mountains: WATZMANN (German), WARUSAWA (Japan), WELIRANG (Indonesia), WOODRING (United States)
$ quad bullet $ Lakes: VICTORIA (Tanzania/Uganda), TITICACA (Peru/Bolivia), WINNIPEG (Canada), ???
$ quad bullet $ Forests: SHERWOOD (England), SIHLWALD (Switzerland), EYREWELL (New Zealand), GISHWATI (Rwanda)
$ quad bullet $ Provinces/territories: MEDELPAD (Sweden), NAGALAND (India), SAARLAND (Germany), DEMERARA (Guyana)
$ quad bullet $ Countries/sovereign states: THAILAND (Asia), SURINAME (South America), BOTSWANA (Africa), KIRIBATI (Micronesia/Oceania)
$ quad bullet $ Rivers: GODAVARI (India), RIO NEGRO (Brazil/Venezuela/Colombia), MISSOURI (United States), ???
$ quad bullet $ Capital cities: MONROVIA (Liberia), CANBERRA (Australia), FUNAFUTI (Tuvalu), ???
$ quad bullet $ Languages: MOLDOVAN (Moldova), MANDINKA (Ivory Coast), MANDARIN (China), SINDARIN (fictional/Middle-earth)
So the three unsolved clues must fit into one of three categories: lakes, rivers, and capital cities. Maybe that’ll make things a bit easier?
I’ll add this to the community wiki once the other three clues are solved.
answered 2 days ago
PiIsNot3PiIsNot3
2,347433
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1
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Nice observation, I think I've found the solution based on your idea. I've added it to the community wiki - and it will help us finding the missing 3 entries as well.
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– elias
yesterday
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Demerara and Thailand probably should be swapped (if my next observation is correct)
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– elias
yesterday
add a comment |
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Partial
8.
SURIBAME(?) (Taiwanese Mandarin Zhuyin) -> I think this one should be SURINAME, but the N character is kinda wonky...
29.
SINDARIN (very pixelated letters)
(Will add more as I figure them out)
As for the meta, I have found that
every geographic location can fit into one of eight categories, with each category having four locations - somewhat like a connect wall. I’ve listed the categories here, along with the locations and the regions they represent:
$ quad bullet $ Mountains: WATZMANN (German), WARUSAWA (Japan), WELIRANG (Indonesia), WOODRING (United States)
$ quad bullet $ Lakes: VICTORIA (Tanzania/Uganda), TITICACA (Peru/Bolivia), WINNIPEG (Canada), ???
$ quad bullet $ Forests: SHERWOOD (England), SIHLWALD (Switzerland), EYREWELL (New Zealand), GISHWATI (Rwanda)
$ quad bullet $ Provinces/territories: MEDELPAD (Sweden), NAGALAND (India), SAARLAND (Germany), DEMERARA (Guyana)
$ quad bullet $ Countries/sovereign states: THAILAND (Asia), SURINAME (South America), BOTSWANA (Africa), KIRIBATI (Micronesia/Oceania)
$ quad bullet $ Rivers: GODAVARI (India), RIO NEGRO (Brazil/Venezuela/Colombia), MISSOURI (United States), ???
$ quad bullet $ Capital cities: MONROVIA (Liberia), CANBERRA (Australia), FUNAFUTI (Tuvalu), ???
$ quad bullet $ Languages: MOLDOVAN (Moldova), MANDINKA (Ivory Coast), MANDARIN (China), SINDARIN (fictional/Middle-earth)
So the three unsolved clues must fit into one of three categories: lakes, rivers, and capital cities. Maybe that’ll make things a bit easier?
I’ll add this to the community wiki once the other three clues are solved.
answered 2 days ago
PiIsNot3PiIsNot3
2,347433
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1
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Nice observation, I think I've found the solution based on your idea. I've added it to the community wiki - and it will help us finding the missing 3 entries as well.
$endgroup$
– elias
yesterday
$begingroup$
Demerara and Thailand probably should be swapped (if my next observation is correct)
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– elias
yesterday
add a comment |
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Partial
8.
SURIBAME(?) (Taiwanese Mandarin Zhuyin) -> I think this one should be SURINAME, but the N character is kinda wonky...
29.
SINDARIN (very pixelated letters)
(Will add more as I figure them out)
As for the meta, I have found that
every geographic location can fit into one of eight categories, with each category having four locations - somewhat like a connect wall. I’ve listed the categories here, along with the locations and the regions they represent:
$ quad bullet $ Mountains: WATZMANN (German), WARUSAWA (Japan), WELIRANG (Indonesia), WOODRING (United States)
$ quad bullet $ Lakes: VICTORIA (Tanzania/Uganda), TITICACA (Peru/Bolivia), WINNIPEG (Canada), ???
$ quad bullet $ Forests: SHERWOOD (England), SIHLWALD (Switzerland), EYREWELL (New Zealand), GISHWATI (Rwanda)
$ quad bullet $ Provinces/territories: MEDELPAD (Sweden), NAGALAND (India), SAARLAND (Germany), DEMERARA (Guyana)
$ quad bullet $ Countries/sovereign states: THAILAND (Asia), SURINAME (South America), BOTSWANA (Africa), KIRIBATI (Micronesia/Oceania)
$ quad bullet $ Rivers: GODAVARI (India), RIO NEGRO (Brazil/Venezuela/Colombia), MISSOURI (United States), ???
$ quad bullet $ Capital cities: MONROVIA (Liberia), CANBERRA (Australia), FUNAFUTI (Tuvalu), ???
$ quad bullet $ Languages: MOLDOVAN (Moldova), MANDINKA (Ivory Coast), MANDARIN (China), SINDARIN (fictional/Middle-earth)
So the three unsolved clues must fit into one of three categories: lakes, rivers, and capital cities. Maybe that’ll make things a bit easier?
I’ll add this to the community wiki once the other three clues are solved.
answered 2 days ago
PiIsNot3PiIsNot3
2,347433
$endgroup$
Partial
8.
SURIBAME(?) (Taiwanese Mandarin Zhuyin) -> I think this one should be SURINAME, but the N character is kinda wonky...
29.
SINDARIN (very pixelated letters)
(Will add more as I figure them out)
As for the meta, I have found that
every geographic location can fit into one of eight categories, with each category having four locations - somewhat like a connect wall. I’ve listed the categories here, along with the locations and the regions they represent:
$ quad bullet $ Mountains: WATZMANN (German), WARUSAWA (Japan), WELIRANG (Indonesia), WOODRING (United States)
$ quad bullet $ Lakes: VICTORIA (Tanzania/Uganda), TITICACA (Peru/Bolivia), WINNIPEG (Canada), ???
$ quad bullet $ Forests: SHERWOOD (England), SIHLWALD (Switzerland), EYREWELL (New Zealand), GISHWATI (Rwanda)
$ quad bullet $ Provinces/territories: MEDELPAD (Sweden), NAGALAND (India), SAARLAND (Germany), DEMERARA (Guyana)
$ quad bullet $ Countries/sovereign states: THAILAND (Asia), SURINAME (South America), BOTSWANA (Africa), KIRIBATI (Micronesia/Oceania)
$ quad bullet $ Rivers: GODAVARI (India), RIO NEGRO (Brazil/Venezuela/Colombia), MISSOURI (United States), ???
$ quad bullet $ Capital cities: MONROVIA (Liberia), CANBERRA (Australia), FUNAFUTI (Tuvalu), ???
$ quad bullet $ Languages: MOLDOVAN (Moldova), MANDINKA (Ivory Coast), MANDARIN (China), SINDARIN (fictional/Middle-earth)
So the three unsolved clues must fit into one of three categories: lakes, rivers, and capital cities. Maybe that’ll make things a bit easier?
I’ll add this to the community wiki once the other three clues are solved.
answered 2 days ago
PiIsNot3PiIsNot3
2,347433
edited yesterday
answered 2 days ago
PiIsNot3PiIsNot3
2,347433
answered 2 days ago
PiIsNot3PiIsNot3
2,347433
answered 2 days ago
PiIsNot3PiIsNot3
2,347433
2,347433
1
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Nice observation, I think I've found the solution based on your idea. I've added it to the community wiki - and it will help us finding the missing 3 entries as well.
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– elias
yesterday
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Demerara and Thailand probably should be swapped (if my next observation is correct)
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– elias
yesterday
add a comment |
1
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Nice observation, I think I've found the solution based on your idea. I've added it to the community wiki - and it will help us finding the missing 3 entries as well.
$endgroup$
– elias
yesterday
$begingroup$
Demerara and Thailand probably should be swapped (if my next observation is correct)
$endgroup$
– elias
yesterday
1
1
$begingroup$
Nice observation, I think I've found the solution based on your idea. I've added it to the community wiki - and it will help us finding the missing 3 entries as well.
$endgroup$
– elias
yesterday
$begingroup$
Nice observation, I think I've found the solution based on your idea. I've added it to the community wiki - and it will help us finding the missing 3 entries as well.
$endgroup$
– elias
yesterday
$begingroup$
Demerara and Thailand probably should be swapped (if my next observation is correct)
$endgroup$
– elias
yesterday
$begingroup$
Demerara and Thailand probably should be swapped (if my next observation is correct)
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– elias
yesterday
add a comment |
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2:
WATZMANN - Semaphore Telegraph Chappe System
answered 2 days ago
LeppyR64LeppyR64
10.9k13858
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2
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Hey, you found it, too!
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– Brandon_J
2 days ago
add a comment |
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2:
WATZMANN - Semaphore Telegraph Chappe System
answered 2 days ago
LeppyR64LeppyR64
10.9k13858
$endgroup$
2
$begingroup$
Hey, you found it, too!
$endgroup$
– Brandon_J
2 days ago
add a comment |
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2:
WATZMANN - Semaphore Telegraph Chappe System
answered 2 days ago
LeppyR64LeppyR64
10.9k13858
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2:
WATZMANN - Semaphore Telegraph Chappe System
answered 2 days ago
LeppyR64LeppyR64
10.9k13858
answered 2 days ago
LeppyR64LeppyR64
10.9k13858
answered 2 days ago
LeppyR64LeppyR64
10.9k13858
answered 2 days ago
LeppyR64LeppyR64
10.9k13858
10.9k13858
2
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Hey, you found it, too!
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– Brandon_J
2 days ago
add a comment |
2
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Hey, you found it, too!
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2 days ago
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Some more:
14.
Rio Negro (every row is shifted to the right one pixel further)
17.
Michigan (in Shavian alphabet)
31.
Gishwati (every row has one pixel, number of pixel corresponds to alphabet number)
Additionally, regarding the final answer,
I think that after all the eight-letter words are discovered, we'll find that there's exactly one letter for each of the 8 positions that doesn't occur in any of the words.
answered 2 days ago
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I don't think your guess about the final extraction can be right. E.g., the last letters so far are all ADIGLNO and only eight answers are un-found, so there's no way to eliminate all but one of the possibilities.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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(I'm guessing majority rather than omission.)
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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(Though if so then I think at least one of the current majorities must be misleading.)
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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Some more:
14.
Rio Negro (every row is shifted to the right one pixel further)
17.
Michigan (in Shavian alphabet)
31.
Gishwati (every row has one pixel, number of pixel corresponds to alphabet number)
Additionally, regarding the final answer,
I think that after all the eight-letter words are discovered, we'll find that there's exactly one letter for each of the 8 positions that doesn't occur in any of the words.
answered 2 days ago
NeoNeo
1812
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I don't think your guess about the final extraction can be right. E.g., the last letters so far are all ADIGLNO and only eight answers are un-found, so there's no way to eliminate all but one of the possibilities.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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(I'm guessing majority rather than omission.)
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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(Though if so then I think at least one of the current majorities must be misleading.)
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
add a comment |
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Some more:
14.
Rio Negro (every row is shifted to the right one pixel further)
17.
Michigan (in Shavian alphabet)
31.
Gishwati (every row has one pixel, number of pixel corresponds to alphabet number)
Additionally, regarding the final answer,
I think that after all the eight-letter words are discovered, we'll find that there's exactly one letter for each of the 8 positions that doesn't occur in any of the words.
answered 2 days ago
NeoNeo
1812
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Some more:
14.
Rio Negro (every row is shifted to the right one pixel further)
17.
Michigan (in Shavian alphabet)
31.
Gishwati (every row has one pixel, number of pixel corresponds to alphabet number)
Additionally, regarding the final answer,
I think that after all the eight-letter words are discovered, we'll find that there's exactly one letter for each of the 8 positions that doesn't occur in any of the words.
answered 2 days ago
NeoNeo
1812
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answered 2 days ago
NeoNeo
1812
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answered 2 days ago
NeoNeo
1812
answered 2 days ago
NeoNeo
1812
1812
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I don't think your guess about the final extraction can be right. E.g., the last letters so far are all ADIGLNO and only eight answers are un-found, so there's no way to eliminate all but one of the possibilities.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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(I'm guessing majority rather than omission.)
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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(Though if so then I think at least one of the current majorities must be misleading.)
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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2
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I don't think your guess about the final extraction can be right. E.g., the last letters so far are all ADIGLNO and only eight answers are un-found, so there's no way to eliminate all but one of the possibilities.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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(I'm guessing majority rather than omission.)
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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(Though if so then I think at least one of the current majorities must be misleading.)
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
2
2
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I don't think your guess about the final extraction can be right. E.g., the last letters so far are all ADIGLNO and only eight answers are un-found, so there's no way to eliminate all but one of the possibilities.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
$begingroup$
I don't think your guess about the final extraction can be right. E.g., the last letters so far are all ADIGLNO and only eight answers are un-found, so there's no way to eliminate all but one of the possibilities.
$endgroup$
– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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(I'm guessing majority rather than omission.)
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
$begingroup$
(I'm guessing majority rather than omission.)
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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(Though if so then I think at least one of the current majorities must be misleading.)
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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(Though if so then I think at least one of the current majorities must be misleading.)
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
2 days ago
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20.
Mandarin (japanese katakana -> マンダリン)
@ user Gareth McCaughan♦
I agree that its a bit difficult since the "so"and "n" look a lot like eachother and since its pixels it looks more like a "so"
answered 2 days ago
DanielleDanielle
813
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20.
Mandarin (japanese katakana -> マンダリン)
@ user Gareth McCaughan♦
I agree that its a bit difficult since the "so"and "n" look a lot like eachother and since its pixels it looks more like a "so"
answered 2 days ago
DanielleDanielle
813
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20.
Mandarin (japanese katakana -> マンダリン)
@ user Gareth McCaughan♦
I agree that its a bit difficult since the "so"and "n" look a lot like eachother and since its pixels it looks more like a "so"
answered 2 days ago
DanielleDanielle
813
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20.
Mandarin (japanese katakana -> マンダリン)
@ user Gareth McCaughan♦
I agree that its a bit difficult since the "so"and "n" look a lot like eachother and since its pixels it looks more like a "so"
answered 2 days ago
DanielleDanielle
813
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answered 2 days ago
DanielleDanielle
813
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answered 2 days ago
DanielleDanielle
813
answered 2 days ago
DanielleDanielle
813
813
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16.
We have : 13, 15 ; 12 ; 4, 15, 22 ; 1, 14.
It gives us : M O ; L; D O V; A N.
Moldovan
answered 2 days ago
Rémi HenryRémi Henry
1,070219
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16.
We have : 13, 15 ; 12 ; 4, 15, 22 ; 1, 14.
It gives us : M O ; L; D O V; A N.
Moldovan
answered 2 days ago
Rémi HenryRémi Henry
1,070219
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add a comment |
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16.
We have : 13, 15 ; 12 ; 4, 15, 22 ; 1, 14.
It gives us : M O ; L; D O V; A N.
Moldovan
answered 2 days ago
Rémi HenryRémi Henry
1,070219
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16.
We have : 13, 15 ; 12 ; 4, 15, 22 ; 1, 14.
It gives us : M O ; L; D O V; A N.
Moldovan
answered 2 days ago
Rémi HenryRémi Henry
1,070219
answered 2 days ago
Rémi HenryRémi Henry
1,070219
answered 2 days ago
Rémi HenryRémi Henry
1,070219
answered 2 days ago
Rémi HenryRémi Henry
1,070219
1,070219
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21:
MANDINKA written in Moon type
answered 2 days ago
formicaformica
974411
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21:
MANDINKA written in Moon type
answered 2 days ago
formicaformica
974411
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21:
MANDINKA written in Moon type
answered 2 days ago
formicaformica
974411
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21:
MANDINKA written in Moon type
answered 2 days ago
formicaformica
974411
answered 2 days ago
formicaformica
974411
answered 2 days ago
formicaformica
974411
answered 2 days ago
formicaformica
974411
974411
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A guess at the final answer based on the clues everyone else solved and Gareth McCaughan's predicted method:
So far taking the most common letter in each position gives:
MINDWANA
That's not an island group, but if we look at the second most common letters:
WARRIORD
So if the missing answers allow the second placed letter to overtake the current leader in positions 1, 7, and 8, we get:
WINDWARDfor the Windward Islands.
answered yesterday
ErgwunErgwun
2,550711
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A guess at the final answer based on the clues everyone else solved and Gareth McCaughan's predicted method:
So far taking the most common letter in each position gives:
MINDWANA
That's not an island group, but if we look at the second most common letters:
WARRIORD
So if the missing answers allow the second placed letter to overtake the current leader in positions 1, 7, and 8, we get:
WINDWARDfor the Windward Islands.
answered yesterday
ErgwunErgwun
2,550711
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add a comment |
$begingroup$
A guess at the final answer based on the clues everyone else solved and Gareth McCaughan's predicted method:
So far taking the most common letter in each position gives:
MINDWANA
That's not an island group, but if we look at the second most common letters:
WARRIORD
So if the missing answers allow the second placed letter to overtake the current leader in positions 1, 7, and 8, we get:
WINDWARDfor the Windward Islands.
answered yesterday
ErgwunErgwun
2,550711
$endgroup$
A guess at the final answer based on the clues everyone else solved and Gareth McCaughan's predicted method:
So far taking the most common letter in each position gives:
MINDWANA
That's not an island group, but if we look at the second most common letters:
WARRIORD
So if the missing answers allow the second placed letter to overtake the current leader in positions 1, 7, and 8, we get:
WINDWARDfor the Windward Islands.
answered yesterday
ErgwunErgwun
2,550711
answered yesterday
ErgwunErgwun
2,550711
answered yesterday
ErgwunErgwun
2,550711
answered yesterday
ErgwunErgwun
2,550711
2,550711
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#26
is Kingston in the Deseret alphabet.
#30
is Belgorod. Start at the beginning of the alphabet. For each arrow, add an offset. Upwards arrows go forward in the alphabet, downward arrows go backwards: start + 2 → B + 3 → E + 7 → L and so on.
answered yesterday
M OehmM Oehm
38.3k2118176
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#26
is Kingston in the Deseret alphabet.
#30
is Belgorod. Start at the beginning of the alphabet. For each arrow, add an offset. Upwards arrows go forward in the alphabet, downward arrows go backwards: start + 2 → B + 3 → E + 7 → L and so on.
answered yesterday
M OehmM Oehm
38.3k2118176
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add a comment |
$begingroup$
#26
is Kingston in the Deseret alphabet.
#30
is Belgorod. Start at the beginning of the alphabet. For each arrow, add an offset. Upwards arrows go forward in the alphabet, downward arrows go backwards: start + 2 → B + 3 → E + 7 → L and so on.
answered yesterday
M OehmM Oehm
38.3k2118176
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#26
is Kingston in the Deseret alphabet.
#30
is Belgorod. Start at the beginning of the alphabet. For each arrow, add an offset. Upwards arrows go forward in the alphabet, downward arrows go backwards: start + 2 → B + 3 → E + 7 → L and so on.
answered yesterday
M OehmM Oehm
38.3k2118176
answered yesterday
M OehmM Oehm
38.3k2118176
answered yesterday
M OehmM Oehm
38.3k2118176
answered yesterday
M OehmM Oehm
38.3k2118176
38.3k2118176
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I'll just take a moment to appreciate how cleverly made these puzzles are. @jafe you are ingenious. I wonder what you'll do seven puzzles later when you reach your 200th! :D
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@useruser477343 Thanks for the kind words :) Your #100 is just around the corner as well! Anything special planned?
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– jafe
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This is an amazing puzzle - so much packed into so little. You've got a real gift for puzzlecraft and presentation. If you're not publishing somewhere, you should be :)
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@Rubio Thanks <3
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