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Post by onlymark on Nov 11, 2011 16:49:24 GMT
I remember in the dim and distant past (but that was in another country, and besides, the board is dead) a competition regarding identifying what the map was about. I saw this one and decided it fitted. So - You have to tell me what the map signifies, plus bonus points for identifying any phrase I may have used, and the correct version, in my first few lines.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 11, 2011 17:19:23 GMT
Yaaaay -- this was a great game!
I can only partially identify a phrase, but will start the guessing with: medieval convents and monasteries?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2011 18:07:39 GMT
Yes, I remember inventing that excellent game. ;D
Anything to do with economics?
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Post by onlymark on Nov 11, 2011 18:19:49 GMT
So it was you was it?
However - no, no and no to the guesses. Clues are available if you want, it's up to you. I don't mind either way.
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Post by fumobici on Nov 11, 2011 18:23:18 GMT
Mornington Crescent!
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Post by onlymark on Nov 11, 2011 19:19:42 GMT
Errrr......... unfortunately not. Even if you invoked the post on the palindromic date rule.
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Post by fumobici on Nov 11, 2011 19:27:32 GMT
Errrr......... unfortunately not. Even if you invoked the post on the palindromic date rule. Well fine. Mudchute via the ghost station alternate selection rule.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2011 20:02:29 GMT
Too early for clues!
Anything to do with religion? Health? Age?
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Post by onlymark on Nov 11, 2011 21:47:19 GMT
fumobici, that will only give you every third letter and no vowels unless the reverse appeal contains prime numbers.
K2, religion, no. Age, no. Health - in a very roundabout way but don't focus too much on that. It's just peripherally a result.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2011 22:02:40 GMT
That puts us on a sort of track. I will just say something weird like: coal mines?
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Post by mich64 on Nov 11, 2011 22:47:59 GMT
" In The Dim and Distant Past " The map is of Neolithic chambered cairns, henges, hut circles, forts, duns, barrows or crannog sites.
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Cheers, Mich
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2011 22:52:29 GMT
What intrigues me are the different coloured squares (blue or red), so it seems to me that we need to concentrate on that difference.
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Post by onlymark on Nov 12, 2011 6:23:26 GMT
Coal mines, no. Mich, pure coincidence using those words. They aren't relevant. But good thought.
The difference between the coloured squares is numerical.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2011 17:51:47 GMT
Are the numbers rising and/or declining? Population? Age? Education?
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 12, 2011 18:00:57 GMT
Wind farms?
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Post by onlymark on Nov 12, 2011 18:43:52 GMT
Any wind farms, Bixa should be obliterated from the map for what good they are. But, no.
K2, the red squares are twice what the blue squares are. The blue ones are one, the red are two. But one and two what? A little help is that, one = the first and two = the first and second.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2011 17:54:21 GMT
I do find it interesting that London is not at all concerned by this situation.
Okay, I am ready for a clue.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 13, 2011 18:15:26 GMT
Plague pits?
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Post by onlymark on Nov 13, 2011 19:52:13 GMT
Sorry, no Bixa.
Clue - what occurred on the 11th? Remembrance Day. The squares are something to do with the two world wars. But what specifically?
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Post by onlymark on Nov 13, 2011 19:57:44 GMT
And what is the connection between a small village in Normandy and the squares?
Also, bonus points are still up for grabs for identifying a quote used in the OP where only one word had been changed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 13, 2011 20:04:59 GMT
Number of soldiers killed on D-Day who were from those towns?
I'm NOT googling, so will probably cover myself with shame here, but ........
The word that was changed was "boards", from the original "wench". I think it was from Shakespeare's Richard III. I also have the vague, possibly false, memory that the quote appears in Hemingway somewhere, or maybe only in a movie made from one of his books.
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Post by onlymark on Nov 13, 2011 20:47:18 GMT
Half a point there for the quote. The word change is correct, the playwright isn't. It wasn't Shakespeare but his play, the Merchant of Venice was supposed to be heavily influenced by this one. The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe.
Number of soldiers killed on D-Day who were from those towns? That'd be obvious, wouldn't it? Come at it from the other direction.
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Post by mich64 on Nov 14, 2011 3:11:35 GMT
Well, I feel somewhat better for researching WW1 and WW2 connections all day yesterday! Still researching. Mich
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Post by fumobici on Nov 14, 2011 4:09:42 GMT
Found it, but cheated and used google
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Post by onlymark on Nov 14, 2011 5:03:29 GMT
At least you admit to it. I wouldn't and pretend I was really clever.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 14, 2011 14:04:04 GMT
946 Americans died in the dress rehearsal for D Day......
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2011 14:45:42 GMT
That reminds me of all of the soldiers who still died after November 11th, 1918 because the armistice information had not arrived yet.
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Post by onlymark on Nov 14, 2011 14:51:02 GMT
946 Americans died in the dress rehearsal for D Day...... From memory, that was in the Channel wasn't it?
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 14, 2011 14:56:45 GMT
No. Slapton Sands in Devon.
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Post by onlymark on Nov 14, 2011 14:57:37 GMT
So, in conclusion nearly, the map shows places that have something to do with WWI and WWII. A clue was Remembrance Sunday. What happens every year on that day? What's different about those places? What happens, or doesn't happen, what it has, or doesn't have, each year in those places has a direct relationship to why they are special. And note the last three lines of reply 21.
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