One quiz at a time
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Re: One quiz at a time
Neither Monis nor Vergenoegd.
But it does start with the same letter as Monis.
But it does start with the same letter as Monis.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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It was Muratie. Their NV Cape Ruby. It wasn't bad.
Better than the Allesverloren 2011 Cape Vintage. That tasted like a cold stabilised and filtered ruby; I was not impressed. It wasn't up to the standard of a good LBV like Sandeman.
Ray - you're up.
Better than the Allesverloren 2011 Cape Vintage. That tasted like a cold stabilised and filtered ruby; I was not impressed. It wasn't up to the standard of a good LBV like Sandeman.
Ray - you're up.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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There should perhaps be an analogy to the Bishop of Norwich in this thread.
Re: One quiz at a time
Seizing ancient powers.
Explain “cafe humid palace”.
As you would surely expect, there is a good answer relevant to the business of this forum. But what?
Explain “cafe humid palace”.
As you would surely expect, there is a good answer relevant to the business of this forum. But what?
Re: One quiz at a time
Two clues: “stick hush goes”; “congratulations hope organs”.
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Royal Companhia Velha, via the Marquis of Pombal.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
Re: One quiz at a time
Another fumble coming up...
“Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Other alcoholic drinks, decadent smokes, and hearty eating”
“Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Other alcoholic drinks, decadent smokes, and hearty eating”
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Re: One quiz at a time
Douro stone terraces?
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Re: One quiz at a time
I am intrigued, but likely no closer than anyone else to determining the meaning/mechanism of this puzzle so far.
Re: One quiz at a time
Obviously none of you know anything.
The word sequences were, at creation, constrained random, but are now fixed. There are many. Very many†. The relevant ones (for our purposes) are, by design, sequences very different from each other and not easily confused with other nearby sequences.
That is so many clues that whoever gets it could, rather than explaining, merely post a satisfactory substitute sequence.
† IIRC, most of five dozen trillion.
The word sequences were, at creation, constrained random, but are now fixed. There are many. Very many†. The relevant ones (for our purposes) are, by design, sequences very different from each other and not easily confused with other nearby sequences.
That is so many clues that whoever gets it could, rather than explaining, merely post a satisfactory substitute sequence.
† IIRC, most of five dozen trillion.
Re: One quiz at a time
I think that “defeat.photo.hugs” and “ears.oddly.free” should be marked as showing understanding.
The politest thing I can say about these hopeless botches is that they are wrong.
You will really like the answer.
Re: One quiz at a time
Is this too difficult? Should I just tell you lost folks.
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For me this is not easily understandable, and maybe not even guessable, in fact it seems like meaningless drivel.
I admit defeat.
I admit defeat.
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Some vague thoughts in case it helps anyone else. The thoughts I have at the moment are around conversion from word lengths, so "cafe humid palace" being 4 5 6 etc. Looking at all the above sequences in that way, they could all be times (4:56, 5:44, 15:46) or post numbers (456, 544, 1546) but having looked through first post numbers for each of the forums and other similar possibilities which match the "constrained random at creation, now fixed" criteria, I have not identified anything which seems to fit. The statement "It isn’t entirely clear, but “tile.sweat.craft” might be nearer" might provide inspiration (in that there is some lack of precision perhaps involved) but has not done so as yet.
Re: One quiz at a time
Try map.what3words.com/cafe.humid.palace, and the other clue sequences (stick.hush.goes; congratulations.hope.organs; tile.sweat.craft; stands.plots.varieties; defeat.photo.hugs; ears.oddly.free).
From www.what3words.com/about/:
Three metres by three metres is almost small enough to identify a single vine. It would not be a foolish mechanism for farmers to identify vines, as the app can readily identify them (perhaps sometimes with a fourth ‘word’ of “.N”, “.E”, “.S” or “.W” or “.C” for central). There’s even a Portuguese version (land only, not covering the oceans), allowing the likes of sutis.vogar.paçoca.what3words is the simplest way to talk about any precise location. Our system has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares and assigned each one a unique address made of just 3 words. Now everyone and everywhere has a reliable address.
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There’s no human-friendly way to give a location to a machine
As personal devices, autonomous vehicles and the IoT streamline the way we live, we have an increasing need to communicate very accurate location. Addresses are too broad to direct a drone or an autonomous car, whilst GPS coordinates are complicated and prone to input mistakes.
Billions of people worldwide have no reliable address at all
Without an address, people struggle to access health and education services, register land and vote. Many of these people live in rapidly expanding cities, or informal settlements.
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OK. That was clever. I've heard of what3words approach to mapping the world and even looked up one or two places — but didn't connect your question to the map.
Score one to you. When I have a moment I will look up the locations you've identified as your clues.
Score one to you. When I have a moment I will look up the locations you've identified as your clues.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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Interesting, I haven't heard of this before.
If the radius of the earth is roughly 2^23m, then a translation from longitude/latitude for a single location to 3m x 3m accuracy would require a 2^46 (or less if not mapping oceans) value or less depe; presumably reducing this to 3 indexes of 2^15 (32k) - or perhaps more to include error detection. Still a large dictionary if intended for voice recognition, unless other methods are used on combination for error reduction also.
If the radius of the earth is roughly 2^23m, then a translation from longitude/latitude for a single location to 3m x 3m accuracy would require a 2^46 (or less if not mapping oceans) value or less depe; presumably reducing this to 3 indexes of 2^15 (32k) - or perhaps more to include error detection. Still a large dictionary if intended for voice recognition, unless other methods are used on combination for error reduction also.
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Re: One quiz at a time
It is B&F, and since I have never been there, how was I to know?
Well I have learnt something new today as well.
Well I have learnt something new today as well.