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The Recent problems from James Dow Allen reminded me of this paperback i have...
which is full of the hardest problems...
The author of the book seems to be the [Marilyn vos Savant] of the UK
(if i was older and lived in the UK, i'd be better at them)
For most of the problems, I look at the answer,
and I still have no clue....
____________________________
i'd think that... FW is full of puzzles of this kind :
Where might you find an English soup of very little worth ?
How are Peter, Owen, Billy and Albert related to a chimney sweep ?
A pelican was admitted in 1812, a badger in 1848, and a beaver in
1859. To what ?
Which men of straw gave their name to an Italian opera ?
Whose arms have three legs ?
The one in Messina is a storm in a teacup, while the one in Vienna
promises like for like. What are they ?
The Recent problems from James Dow Allen ...... use a very simple variant of a rather well-known cipher method
Whose arms have three legs ?
HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
... use a very simple variant of a rather well-known cipher method
The Recent problems from James Dow Allen ...
Whose arms have three legs ?
I think I know the answer to this one.
Rather than rot13, I'll
encrypt my answer with the same method I used a few days ago.
He stands in spite of rats.
On 14/08/2025 05:29, James Dow Allen wrote:
HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
... use a very simple variant of a rather well-known cipher method
The Recent problems from James Dow Allen ...
Whose arms have three legs ?
I think I know the answer to this one.
So do I. At least, I have an answer that could not reasonably be
rejected as wrong.
Rather than rot13, I'll
encrypt my answer with the same method I used a few days ago.
He stands in spite of rats.
Despite knowing the answer to the riddle, I have no idea what
that means. Book code?
Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> posted:
On 14/08/2025 05:29, James Dow Allen wrote:
HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
... use a very simple variant of a rather well-known cipher method
The Recent problems from James Dow Allen ...
(it's not that simple for us!!!)
Whose arms have three legs ?I think I know the answer to this one.
Rather than rot13, I'll
encrypt my answer with the same method I used a few days ago.
He stands in spite of rats.
(These are "political predictions.")
** Betray a sovereign? The newlywed overvalued is.rCi
rCi** Appreciate cure; buffoonery conquer; rhetoric amuses.rCi
The author of the book seems to be the [Marilyn vos Savant] of the UK
On 13/08/2025 20:16, HenHanna@NewsGrouper wrote:
The author of the book seems to be the [Marilyn vos Savant]-a of
the UK
American (rather than UK), by birth and country of employment,
according to her Wikipedia biography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant
I suspect he means the Dutch/Welsh Carol Vorderman who used to play arithmetic on TV. She could reasonably be described as the MvS of the UK.
What is it? give me a keyword (describing the method)
so i can Google or ask my AI.
The Recent problems from James Dow Allen reminded me of this paperback i have...
which is full of the hardest problems...
The author of the book seems to be the [Marilyn vos Savant] of the UK
(if i was older and lived in the UK, i'd be better at them)
For most of the problems, I look at the answer,
and I still have no clue....
____________________________
i'd think that... FW is full of puzzles of this kind :
Where might you find an English soup of very little worth ?
How are Peter, Owen, Billy and Albert related to a chimney sweep ?
A pelican was admitted in 1812, a badger in 1848, and a beaver in
1859. To what ?
Which men of straw gave their name to an Italian opera ?
Whose arms have three legs ?
The one in Messina is a storm in a teacup, while the one in Vienna
promises like for like. What are they ?
HenHanna@NewsGrouper wrote:
The Recent problems from James Dow Allen reminded me of this paperback i have...
which is full of the hardest problems...
The author of the book seems to be the [Marilyn vos Savant] of the UK
(if i was older and lived in the UK, i'd be better at them)
For most of the problems, I look at the answer,
and I still have no clue....
____________________________
i'd think that... FW is full of puzzles of this kind :
Where might you find an English soup of very little worth ?
How are Peter, Owen, Billy and Albert related to a chimney sweep ?
My answer in rot13:
V oryvrir gur nafjre gb guvf vf eryngrq gb gur snpg gung gurl ner nyy
gvgyr punenpgref va Orawnzva Oevggra bcrenf (Crgre Tevzrf, Bjra
Jvatenir, Ovyyl Ohqq, Nyoreg Ureevat). V'z abg fher ubj gur "puvzarl
fjrrc" svtherf vagb guvf.
A pelican was admitted in 1812, a badger in 1848, and a beaver in
1859. To what ?
My answer in rot13:
Gur Havgrq Fgngrf. Cryvpna ersref gb Ybhvfvnan, Onqtre = Jvfpbafva,
Ornire = Bertba.
Which men of straw gave their name to an Italian opera ?
Whose arms have three legs ?
The one in Messina is a storm in a teacup, while the one in Vienna promises like for like. What are they ?
Pete Gayde--- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
What is it? give me a keyword (describing the method)
so i can Google or ask my AI.
I did post a response to this yesterday, and Newsgrouper
responded with "Message sent" but the message still has not
appeared. ??? The message I sent had a slightly funny-looking format.
Is there some sort of "Moderation" happening?
Cheers,
James
On 15/08/2025 12:44, James Dow Allen wrote:
HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
What is it? give me a keyword (describing the method)
so i can Google or ask my AI.
I did post a response to this yesterday, and Newsgrouper
responded with "Message sent" but the message still has not
appeared. ??? The message I sent had a slightly funny-looking format.
Is there some sort of "Moderation" happening?
Cheers,
James
This group is not moderated.
Sometimes servers drop certain posts due to their own policies, common ones being spam filtering or
posting limits (too many posts, too much bandwith etc.). If so your server ought to have given some
different message. Perhaps your server provides a mechanism to interogate its log to find out why a
post was dropped.
Sometimes servers just "throw a wobbly", to use the techie term... Giganews had a recurring issue
where it would accept a post, but not "link" it to the required newsgroup. Such posts were
retrievable if queried by Message-Id (which is not specific to any group), but not when enumerating
by article number (which is group specific). Sometimes the article appeared in the group several
hours later, sometimes not!
Mike.
Anyway, PLEASE solve for the simple way I've hidden messages
recently, so I don't have to compose further hints!!
Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> posted:
On 14/08/2025 05:29, James Dow Allen wrote:
HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
Whose arms have three legs ?I think I know the answer to this one.
So do I. At least, I have an answer that could not reasonably be
rejected as wrong.
Rather than rot13, I'll
encrypt my answer with the same method I used a few days ago.
He stands in spite of rats.
The Recent problems from James Dow Allen ...... use a very simple variant of a rather well-known cipher method
give us a few simplest problems
to get us initiated... Thanks!
Alas, Egypt occurs warily, shah.
HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
... use a very simple variant of a rather well-known cipher method
The Recent problems from James Dow Allen ...
Whose arms have three legs ?
I think I know the answer to this one. Rather than rot13, I'll
encrypt my answer with the same method I used a few days ago.
He stands in spite of rats.