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Another hang-the-pictures on the wall thing.

The following question "According to Vol. XXIII of the Eclectic Review, it is not galleries that make an artist, but what?" Answer: pictures. How appropriate! Although you’re not confronted with the same question every time.

Also today the answer was buried in a google book search. Kind of disappointing to have the same kind of problem three days straight.

Today was also a little trickier than before sand on-the-painting-puzzle. Got it after a couple of tries.

The following question could be found, as yesterday using google's book search. "What words divided by tons appear in the Numismatic Chronicle?" Answer: Hoc Opvs Dei

Today, the suduko puzzle is a 6x6 board and not as trivial as before and actually quite challenging.

After finishing the puzzle you've to answer a question (different each time). Mine was "In his Italian Journeys, what type of tower with a great bulging cornice, does William Dean Howells see?" Answer: Ghibelline. Found by using the tip at the bottom to do a google book search for the phrase "with a great bulging cornice".

Today the suduko puzzle is a 6x6 board and not as trivial as before.

After finishing the puzzle you've to answer the a question (different each time). Mine was "In his Italian Journeys, what type of tower with a great bulging cornice, does William Dean Howells see?" Answer: Ghibelline. Found by using the tip at the bottom to do a google book search for the phrase "with a great bulging cornice".

After finishing the puzzle the following question appears.

"Leonardo's reverse-handwriting manuscript on perpetual motion wheels can be found in this city. What is its name? (For another clue, Hyde in the north.)"

I tried one wrong answer after guessing that "Hyde" probably is referring to Hyde Park in London.

The next step is to find four hydden blades in the image. See below.

The last step was little bit tricky. You've to answer the following question "You have found all four Blades, and lo! They draw an X over a place just slightly north of the Victoria and Albert Museum, home of Leonardo's Codex Forster. What is its name?"

There could be quite a few things slightly north depending on how you define slightly and even with the most narrow definition, there is surely still quite a few things. Anyways, to find it I did simply a trial and error thing and I got lucky early on. First attempt was to go to London on google maps (satellite view) and search for "Leonardo". No results slightly north of the museum. Another search for "Vinci" also return no hits in proximity. I switched over to the map view and simply tried to see if there was something mentioned on the map in north proximity to the museum. Slightly north west "Imperial College" was the first thing I found.

Last week the observation challenge was quite challenging, this week it was even easier than the first time. To find the video, do a google video search

1. "Speaking of fascination characters, there's only one letter in the entire video that is clearly written in lower-case. What is that letter?" f in "SO DARK THE CON of MAN.
2. "In just one word, the noble Sir Leigh describes the pursuit that both he you are on. What is the word?" quest
3. "And to bring this back to the topic of movie spectacles, how many times is Sir Leigh shown wearing his? His spectacles , that is?" 7

Check mate in 3 moves. White wins using a double check in order to mate.

1. "Who designed the Louvre's famous pyramid?" I.M. Pei
2. "Which French King built the Louvre?" Phillip II Augustus
3. "Who never set foot in Notre Dame?" Pope Leo IX
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   Posted by Wael Chatila on May 7, 2006 2:06:56 AM PDT #

Another easy hang the pictures on the wall puzzle.

The following question is another translation question to which I again used http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

Another simple restoration. The following question left me clueless. "Translate ilhv from Atbash". Answer: rose

First I thought Atbash was some obscure Jewish language but soon found out that it's really a Jewish substitution cipher. At least the Jewish part was correct.

To decipher "ilhv" simply first find "I" in the cipher row above and substitute it with "r", find "L", substitute with "o" and so on.

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