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Some of these were clearly harder than others. The puzzle was designed so that you definitely did not need to solve them all to finish the puzzle. That is why it was done in SG rather than in ITH. I do not know if anyone got them all.
Clue | Rule | Phrase | Answer | After rule | Country |
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Gaisprin daisongbir raio saicomic yaibo raiwonde | last letter first then add ai | Spring songbird or comic boy wonder | Robin | Nairobi | Kenya |
Jasmalla jacara jawitha jaopena jatopa jauseda jafora jaracinga | Ja at start, a at end | Small car with open top used in racing | Kart | Jakarta | Indonesia |
Mightu mmplificationu myu mtimulatedu mmissionu mfu madiationu | first letter becomes m, u at end | Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation | Laser | Maseru | Lesotho |
Mujazz musinging muwith munonsense musyllables | add MU at beginning | Jazz singing with Nonsense syllables | Scat | Muscat | Oman |
Mopenodfyi aopenlert oopenr lopenoseo copenonsi | add OPEN at 2nd position, 3rd from last letter moves to end | Modify, Alter or loose coins | Change | Copenhagen | Denmark |
Giveo upo oro leaveo | add O to end | Give up or leave | Quit | Quito | Ecuador |
I hoii oii basebaoli wheori tohi battoei stoopi safeoli oai thiori baosi | last letter changed to I, O added third from end | A hit in baseball where the batter stops safely on third base | Triple | Tripoli | Libya |
Havímg mó compamióms, simglé | n becomes m, last vowel get accent | Having no companions, single | Lone | Lomé | Togo |
Sua bigha ra fuia o eergreea sama pana etea i sucea aa jlla | last letter changed to A, 2nd letter omitted | Sour bright red fruit of evergreen swamp plant eaten in sauces and jelly | Cranberry | Canberra | Australia |
seorga’ tlds yt t nuncto f aenc dn ougao | last letter moved to start to replace start letter, third from end dropped. | georgia's oldest city at junction of senaca and tugaloo | savannah | havana | cuba |
budtaillesst budanthropoidt budprimatest budapartt budfromt budhumanst | bud added at beginning, t at the end | tailless anthropoid primates apart from humans | apes | budapest | hungary |
puarta oufa tuhea euarthsa suurfacea nuota cuovereda buya aua buodya oufa wuatera | u added as second letter, a at the end | part of the earth's surface area not covered by a body of water | land | luanda | angola |
molarge moflat mobottomed moboat mowith mobroad mosquare moends | mo added at beginning | large flat bottomed boat with broad square ends | scow | moscow | russia |
khic lol f oobacc fea ro gmokin | last letter moves to replace first letter | thick roll of tobacco leaf for smoking | cigar | riga | latvia |
sackhsis madehmom ofhbro paperhgrandma | h plus shortened name for relative added at end | sack made of paper | bag | baghdad | iraq |
sackhsis madehmom ofhbro paperhgrandma | h plus shortened name for relative added at end | sack made of paper | bag | baghdad | iraq |
tescendpub treelyauberge tylodge torcetavern tfhostelry travityhotel | t replaces first letter, traveler's accommodation appended to end | decend freely by force of gravity | fall | tallinn | estonia |
crenny enf Penrthens | o is replaced with en | crony of Porthos | athos | athens | greece |
exchangem ofm goodsm form moneym | m appended to end | exchange of goods for money | sale | salem | oregon |
stfout fhcnerut ceseehut whtiut whsitihut rdniut adnut pelaut ywolleut iroiretnut | letters apart from the first are reversed and ut added to the end | soft french cheese with whitish rind and pale yellow interior | brie | beirut | lebanon |
pongl piecep pfo plothc prappedw prounda phet podyb pornw pyb poutherns psiana pomenw | first letter moves to end then p appended to front | long piece of cloth wrapped around the body worn by southern asian women | sari | paris | france |
Finish’a ho’a bo’a fond’a inide’a sps’a | third letter is dropped and 'a added to the end | Finnish hot box found inside spas | Sauna | Sana'a | Yemen |
Veddish vrown vigment vr vtalian vity | first letter replaced by V | reddish brown pigment or Italian city | Sienna | Vienna | Austria |
Caquiredca ocmpletedoc nkowledgednk rodro ksilldks nidni osmedos idsciplinedid | first two letters are reversed and D plus the first two reversed letters added at end of word as well | Acquired complete knowledge or skill in some discipline | Master | Amsterdam | Netherlands |
Ajazza umusicianu egetze (ethee osoundo) ooro ekentone | first vowel added at beginning and end | Jazz musician Getz ("The Sound") or Kenton | Stan | Astana | Kazakhstan |
Cito ciso cino ccirculationo | C added at beginning, o at the end | It is in circulation | Air | Cairo | Egypt |
Atludaa aelama apeehsa (alarulpa) | letters are reversed and A added at beginning and end | Adult male sheep (plural) | Rams | Asmara | Eritrea |
I had one difficulty, and flagged that one clue worked differently and that was Salem, Oregon. This was different in that it was a US state capital rather than national capital, and I did mark it as operating slightly oddly. I needed two O's and in terms of countries beginning with O, there's Oman and ummmm.... ummmm... ah..... I know, I'll use Oregon
Some sentences began with capital letters and some did not, keeping the same capitalisation as the clues and reading the first letters of the resulting countries (and one US State) we get: KILODELTAchaliegolfYANKEE. That's the NATO phonetic alphabet. Adding spaces we get KILO DELTA charlie golf YANKEE. The resulting giveaway code was KDcgY.
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This is my twenty-eighth(or possibly twenty-ninth) puzzle of 2016 after:
27th A Good Spot
26th You Can Raed Tihs Snetnece
25th Time for a Puzzle
24th Down the Tubes
23rd Gooooaaaaaallllllll!
22nd A Strangely Attractive Puzzle
21st Mikalye's Riddle Dungeon
20th Alphablocks
19th A Collection of Classy Characters
18th World Series
17th Seeing Things from Every Angler
16th Shaggy Dogs
15th Just Follow Directions
14th A Short Excerpt from a Longer Work
13th Listen Up
12th Analogy Chains
11th Phoney Numbers
10th Mommy, Where do I come from?
9th Let me make myself perfectly clear
8th Simple addition
7th A list of words
6th As Easy as ABC
5th Movie Stargazing
4th Queens Play
3rd Keep Your Distance
2nd Hunting Lie and Hoe
1st Mixed Bag - [Not linked and now closed as I will reuse part of this in a later puzzle]
0th History of Computer Role-Playing Games
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I don't know too but I'm still working on 4 answers I'll see that after :D
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Bump for solved! Thanks for the puzzle, that was fun.
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Bump for solved too. Was a nice one again. Thanks Mikalye.
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Finally got time to solve some puzzles :).
I wonder if
Havímg mó companióms, simglé
should be
Havímg mó compamióms, simglé
P.S. this one Mopenodfyi aopenlert oopenr lopenoseo copenonsi is brilliant!
P.P.S. that one Caquiredca ocmpletedoc nkowledgednk rodro ksilldks nidni osmedos idsciplinedid even better.
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Greetings all. As promised, something a bit different this week. This week's puzzle finishes on Friday 29 July at the now traditional time of 11:59pm.
The prizes this week are:
Hoard - Complete Pack
Culpa Innata
This week's puzzle is called Applied Rules. In each of these, a particular rule has been applied to each of the words in the question. Answer the question, then apply the same rule to the answer. For example, here are two fishy examples.
Trthe Tropposite Trof Trin
This translates to “the opposite of in” with the letters TR appended to the beginning of each word. The answer is TROUT.
Sameane wha is in charge af a warker ar arganisatian
This is “Someone who is in charge of a worker or organisation” but with every O changed to A. The answer is BASS.
The following work exactly the same way, although the category that each of the final answers belong to is not fish.
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