Crack the Duet Riddle 2 -welcome guests and members!
Crack the Duet Riddle 2 -welcome guests and members!
DUET riddle Nr 2 has been cracked! It was online for only just over a month - but the next one is already up and waiting. Go to DUET riddle Nr 3, and have fun with it. Best of luck! Hello to all and sundry, here is the second DUET riddle. Go to www.uni-duisburg.de/Fak2/duet/duetriddle2.html There is a prize to be won but the challenge is in the brainsport itself. The forum is for anyone interested in exchanging conclusions and suggestions with each other. I'll look at them regularly but I can't deny or confirm any - someone has to e-mail me the complete solution.
Just write where it says, "Antwort erstellen" (write answer). "Vorschau" means preview; to post your answer, click below your answer where it says "Beitrag schreiben" (post answer). So, have fun, and the best of luck! Uli
PS. You can register at the top where it says, "Kostenlos anmelden" (register for free).
riddle riddle where are you?
Hello Master Riddler,
This has to be a difficult one if I may so - I still haven't located the riddle yet. Something amiss? How about a direct link -I'm tired of chasing after OBEs.
Cheers
Dam
Re: Crack the Duet Riddle 2 -welcome guests and members!
Hello Dam, now it's me who's puzzled - how did you get into the forum without clicking your way into it from the riddle page? However, the riddle is on the DUET homepage "Current activities" - at the top of the page is a click-on link. The address of the riddle page itself is www.uni-duisburg.de/Fak2/duet/duetriddle2.html I have just now inserted that into my first announcement - you've made it clear that that was necessary. Thanks! Give it a go - best of luck! Uli
Re: Crack the Duet Riddle 2 -welcome guests and members!
I have just returned from a visit to Mindboggle where I had gone hoping to find out why visitors peek into the forum (at regular intervals indicated by my geiger counter) but never disclose their identities. Urs thinks they have improper motives but I cannot really believe that. We went for a drink at the "Marbles Gone Missing" to eavesdrop on the locals. I overheard mutterings of "blast that hunter", "sodding old Greek mythology" and "creature my a***" but was unable to follow their complete syntax with Urs's noisy way of eating the Spotted Dick he had ordered for pudding. No hope of hearing any better once he had finished as he went into a series of loud belches. I could not make up my mind how to feel about these - on the one hand, they gave rise to a considerable degree of undiluted Schadenfreude regarding Urs: for having eaten it so noisily, the Spotted Dick did not seem to agree with him - served him right as a punishment for impeding my eavesdropping! On the other hand, they gave rise to a considerable degree of undiluted aggression welling up between my ears because the belches too were louder than people's mutterings. Heads turned; beady eyes took us in from head to foot; upper lips slammed down on lower lips with a sound of most definite finality. The lounge went a quiet as a grave. Even Urs stopped belching and hurriedly made his way to the tiled compartments, leaving me to suffer the torturous joint stares of a grimly silent majority. I smiled like a fool, gathered my cashmere around me, put on my dark Ray-Bans, placed a handful of banknotes on the table next to my half-finished Water Cress, Fisheyes and Algae Salad, and rose to leave, taking care not to wiggle my ankles (and thus lose dignity) as I strode away on my 5-inch stiletto heels. On the train back, Urs ventured to offer his theory: Greek mythology is "offputting" (sic) and makes people "mouthdead" (Urs once spent some time in Germany, and his diction never fully recovered). However, I pondered his theory and now believe that I'm not betraying my lofty ideals by solemnly delaring the following: A Greek myth is behind how the hunter got to be where he is - but no one needs to study Greek mythology to find him. No reading of antiquities required! Just look out for the three studs in his belt...
Re: Crack the Duet Riddle 2 -welcome guests and members!
Dear Admin, Isn't it unfair to heap riddles thus on us poor riddlers while we are still trying to grasp the whole of the riddle statement in one read? I still can't get past the thrid line without taking a breather. And now we have the mystery of the admin's alter ego to figure out. The style and signature are so different that I'd venture that admin's machine or login are compromised. On the other hand this stranger is fairly familiar with the riddle to leave rather useful hints - I should hope they aren't red herrings.
Meanwhile here's hoping we have more readings on the geiger counter soon - need OPGM - other people's grey matter to puzzle out this one. Atleast until I can grow some of my own - will do in another century or so. Cheers Dam
Re: Crack the Duet Riddle 2 -welcome guests and members!
Lady Adie and Urs popped up as a nasty growth on my mental skin. When I scratch it in self-defence. a lot of words will spurt out, so I'll try not to do it too often... Adie
Re: Crack the Duet Riddle 2 -welcome guests and members!
Hello Admin, Was counting on migratory birds and warm covers to keep you away awhile but woe to us that you should exert yourself thus to further obscure the enigmas contained herein.
Just you wait until I get some reinforcement. Right now burning issues (an exam in Verbrennungslehre) are keeping me tied up. Cheers, Dam
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Grüezi everybody, the lady has lost heart at the sight of not much going on here, but I haven't. True, I discovered, by peeping into Iris-Su's topic, that the hunter's name was found. But all is not lost, for the small creature has to be named too. An easy task - and then the ground floor. I have theories about that. Has anyone else? Amicalement, Urs
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Dear Urs, Tell unto the lady "Take heart - we still look up at the skies and sometimes forget to look at that beneath our feet and get stung by her second. Oh, wicked one how many have you felled, now tell me will I live to meet the dame or will it be the work for others that be passing by"? I am sure she will be delighted and perhaps she will explain as to why it isnt unfair to let a 30's jazz singer make life tougher for younger riddlers. Meanwhile here's wishing her happy hunting, Cheerio, Dam
Re: Crack the Duet Riddle 2 -welcome guests and members!
Grüezi damburg, on reading your answer I rushed out to the balcony to tell the Lady. I had a shock - her face was suddenly like that of a real monster. But then I realized that that was because there were two thin slices of cucumber where her eyes normally are, and the rest of her face was covered in some horrid white sour-smelling stuff that I think she got from the dairy. Really, sometimes I wonder why I bother, things would be easier if I was gay... Anyway, she pursed her lips and then said drily, "Eggiebabe, tell that bloke it's a two-digit figure that's wanted." And with her finger she sealed up the white substance layer so that her mouth disappeared again. Now isn't that plain niggling. (On her part, I mean, not on mine.) Mate, I suspect that you had the solution all along and just kept dragging out your silence. Hats off to you, I'm sure you'll hand over that figure within no time... A word of warning, old man. She has been working on Riddle Nr 3 for a while now, with ideas sprouting up about Nr 4, too. Bottoms up! Urs
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Hello again Urs, That was awfully quick - I was certain that I have had the last word for a while to come - note that I said word and not number - that I shall not even attempt - perhaps there is a more effective method - ever heard of brute force decryption techniques - it'll take a 100 posts of 2 digit numbers with far less time than it will trying to find the import of Lady Ada's number trick - trust me I am not going to give any numbers ever - shall I repeat that 73 times now? I am just going to sprout random numbers until I figure the twin digit figure - figure how I figure the figure? For how do I know the name of the ground floor where there is none 'on' it? Or is it 'in'? Cheers and looking forward to as many as 98 posts, Dam
Re: Crack the Duet Riddle 2 -welcome guests and members!
Grüezi mitanand, the Lady can't answer because she is "busy". Busy, my foot. She has just remarked that finding the two-digit number could take less time than painting 10 toenails (but she has alredy completed the first. Undercoat, that is. There will be a top coat of neon green varnish, to go with her new sandals. I'm doing my best to be factual because any moment she can get up and peep over my shoulder.) Keep going - though random is not the best of all possible approaches. Filling in the sqares and "an itsy bitsy teeny weeny bit of lateral thinking" might work... Keep going. Cheers, Urs