One quiz at a time

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:26 Fri 18 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:105.xx?

You are very very warm. And I thought you were giving up...?

Post by **DRT** » 19:29 Fri 18 Oct 2013

Alex, it must be 107. Guess a cask number...

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:31 Fri 18 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:Alex, it must be 107. Guess a cask number...

Yes, go on Alex.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 19:35 Fri 18 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:
AHB wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
AHB wrote:
AHB wrote:112.47
I meant 211.47!
Hmm. At least the first guess represents a distillery. Albeit one in Loch Lomond.
The second guess is not a valid number. I think the numbers only go up to 126 or so.
Do you not have the links Derek posted earlier on open in an adjacent tab to this one??
Unless I have mistyped it 211 is Kininvie.

However, I take I am wrong so I am now guessing 106.
I don't think there is a 211... here is a more recent, up-to-date list than Julian's..

106 is by far the closest guess so far.

[where are you getting 203 and 211 from....?]

Honestly, how can you set a quiz when you don't what the range of answers can be?

Humph. I have to wait for someone else to guess now.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:38 Fri 18 Oct 2013

AHB wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
AHB wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
AHB wrote:
AHB wrote:112.47
I meant 211.47!
Hmm. At least the first guess represents a distillery. Albeit one in Loch Lomond.
The second guess is not a valid number. I think the numbers only go up to 126 or so.
Do you not have the links Derek posted earlier on open in an adjacent tab to this one??
Unless I have mistyped it 211 is Kininvie.

However, I take I am wrong so I am now guessing 106.
I don't think there is a 211... here is a more recent, up-to-date list than Julian's..

106 is by far the closest guess so far.

[where are you getting 203 and 211 from....?]
Honestly, how can you set a quiz when you don't what the range of answers can be?

Humph. I have to wait for someone else to guess now.

But you do know what the range of answers is - it's any number up to 126, so long as when you cross-reference that number against the map that Derek linked to, it's in Speyside! And then you posted the range of available numbers above!

And it IS your guess! Really, do pay attention...

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:40 Fri 18 Oct 2013

And I just gave you the biggest clue so far. Even if Derek misinterpreted it (see answer to Owen, re relative warmth)...

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 19:41 Fri 18 Oct 2013

107.73

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:42 Fri 18 Oct 2013

AHB wrote:107.73

You believed Derek. As I have said, Derek misinterpreted my comment about being very very warm. I have already given you the basis for interpreting that correctly. I cannot give you much more information without telling you.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 19:45 Fri 18 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:
AHB wrote:107.73
You believed Derek.

Not at all. I just couldn't be arsed on an iPhone to look at the map and see which distillery was close to 106.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:45 Fri 18 Oct 2013

I found a link for the SMWS July Outturn. If someone found that they would narrow things down somewhat. Derek's google must be broken.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 19:51 Fri 18 Oct 2013

I'm going offline for a bit; I have some 1963 port corks to reconstruct.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:52 Fri 18 Oct 2013

AHB wrote:I'm going offline for a bit; I have some 1963 port corks to reconstruct.

sigh.... I want it to be someone else's turn....

Post by **DRT** » 19:54 Fri 18 Oct 2013

It is one of these...

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Do I win?

Post by **jdaw1** » 19:58 Fri 18 Oct 2013

We need three of us, and about twenty minutes. Person A takes the distillery numbers that are 1 modulo 3 (so 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, …, 151). B takes the distillery numbers that are 2 modulo 3 (so 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, …, 152). C takes the distillery numbers that are 0 modulo 3 (so 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, …, 153).

We could do all the distillery numbers in a ten-minute blitz, then repeat with cask numbers.

Post by **jdaw1** » 19:59 Fri 18 Oct 2013

76.103. (No idea whether already guessed. Dull question, as foretold.)

Post by **DRT** » 20:01 Fri 18 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Dull question

+1

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:01 Fri 18 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:It is one of these...
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Do I win?

It is one of those. You haven't won yet.

jdaw1 wrote:We need three of us, and about twenty minutes. Person A takes the distillery numbers that are 1 modulo 3 (so 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, !, 151). B takes the distillery numbers that are 2 modulo 3 (so 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, !, 152). C takes the distillery numbers that are 0 modulo 3 (so 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, !, 153).

We could do all the distillery numbers in a ten-minute blitz, then repeat with cask numbers.

Hooray, we have a geeky solution at last. Do you realise that the absence of a logical mind has turned this into the guessing equivalent of a mudfight?

Post by **DRT** » 20:02 Fri 18 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:We need three of us, and about twenty minutes.

No one has managed to pay attention for 20 minutes for fear of killing themselves.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:02 Fri 18 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:76.103. (No idea whether already guessed. Dull question, as foretold.)

No.
This from the man who made us guess what he was looking at on his phone.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:03 Fri 18 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:76.103. (No idea whether already guessed. Dull question, as foretold.)

It is a Speyside Spey, it is geographically adjacent to 106, how difficult can this be????

Post by **DRT** » 20:05 Fri 18 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:Hooray, we have a geeky solution at last. Do you realise that the absence of a logical mind has turned this into the guessing equivalent of a mudfight?

But you have posed a complex puzzle, not "a guessable question". This isn't intended to be mindnumbingly dull, it is supposed to be something that people can dip in and out of, make a semi educated guess and continue doing other things.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:06 Fri 18 Oct 2013

Julian's gawn agin.

(That was a clue. Gin. That is a clue. Please guess this. Please.)

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:06 Fri 18 Oct 2013

The distillery now makes gin.
Gin is drunk with lemons.
Lemon is in the title.
GUESS THE ANSWER.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:07 Fri 18 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Hooray, we have a geeky solution at last. Do you realise that the absence of a logical mind has turned this into the guessing equivalent of a mudfight?
But you have posed a complex puzzle, not "a guessable question". This isn't intended to be mindnumbingly dull, it is supposed to be something that people can dip in and out of, make a semi educated guess and continue doing other things.

I said it was boring!

Post by **DRT** » 20:10 Fri 18 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:The distillery now makes gin.
Gin is drunk with lemons.
Lemon is in the title.
GUESS THE ANSWER.

Glenlemon?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:12 Fri 18 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:The distillery now makes gin.
Gin is drunk with lemons.
Lemon is in the title.
GUESS THE ANSWER.
Glenlemon?

Swears. Curses DRT. Expires.

Post by **DRT** » 20:13 Fri 18 Oct 2013

37.53? (Cragganmore "Lemon Grove")

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:15 Fri 18 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:37? (Cragganmore "Lemon Grove")

Derek..

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:17 Fri 18 Oct 2013

But Glen Elgin isn’t in DRT’s list.

Edit: too late. Thank heavens for that.

Derek: I have a nice question. Should I ask it? (Just to give DRT a better informed choice. ‟What decadent thing am I about to do. That I sometimes do this is known to (at least some) members of TPF.”)

Post by **DRT** » 20:18 Fri 18 Oct 2013

37.53

Post by **DRT** » 20:18 Fri 18 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:But Glen Elgin isn’t in DRT’s list.

Edit: too late. Thank heavens for that.

Derek: I have a nice question. Should I ask it?

I think we need to guess the cask number. Current offering is 54.

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:20 Fri 18 Oct 2013

I edited as you posted. If we have further punishment to do first my question is withdrawn.

Off to do it.

Post by **DRT** » 20:21 Fri 18 Oct 2013

Guess cask numbers and get this over with.

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:21 Fri 18 Oct 2013

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:21 Fri 18 Oct 2013

oh, what's this?

Post by **DRT** » 20:21 Fri 18 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:I edited as you posted. If we have further punishment to do first my question is withdrawn.

Off to do it.

Must have been a number 2.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:22 Fri 18 Oct 2013

It would be bad sport to give the answer away. If you manage to find it somehow, we can all go back to our lives.

Post by **DRT** » 20:22 Fri 18 Oct 2013

48.37?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:24 Fri 18 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:48.37?

Fanfares, ticker-tape parades, random execution of dwarves and virgins, slaughtering of fatted calves, excess, inebriation...
and Derek's turn.
I might not guess this time round...

Post by **DRT** » 20:31 Fri 18 Oct 2013

Where was I on 14th July 1980 and why was I there?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:37 Fri 18 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:Where was I on 14th July 1980 and why was I there?

You were riding a giant lemon, on the Left Bank. You were there because it was your hippy phase and you'd dropped out for a few years. The Bastille Day celebrations in the Deux Magots got a little out of hand and you ended up spending a night in the cells.

Post by **DRT** » 20:40 Fri 18 Oct 2013

Celebrating Bastille Day is one of the things I did that day, but it was not the reason I was in the town I was in.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 20:53 Fri 18 Oct 2013

You were 16. You were in Amsterdam (with some French friends hence celebrating Bastille Day) buying dope and enjoying the attractions of the Reeperbaum. Why were you there? Because you were a 16 year old boy with a healthy curiosity.

Post by **DRT** » 20:57 Fri 18 Oct 2013

AHB wrote:You were 16. You were in Amsterdam (with some French friends hence celebrating Bastille Day) buying dope and enjoying the attractions of the Reeperbaum. Why were you there? Because you were a 16 year old boy with a healthy curiosity.

No. But I was celebrating Bastille Day with people who knew what it was, which I didn't until that day.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:12 Fri 18 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:Fanfares, ticker-tape parades, random execution of dwarves and virgins, slaughtering of fatted calves, excess, inebriation...

For the record, not all of these are official

policy.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:28 Fri 18 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Fanfares, ticker-tape parades, random execution of dwarves and virgins, slaughtering of fatted calves, excess, inebriation...
For the record, not all of these are official policy.

Dear guest, please guess which ones..
[I like the fact that Google might abbreviate these posts somehow,,: "...random execution.. virgins.. official

policy..."]

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:30 Fri 18 Oct 2013

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It has to stop... This is pathetic..

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 23:36 Fri 18 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:Where was I on 14th July 1980 and why was I there?

Do we have to get both parts correct or just one part?

Post by **DRT** » 23:37 Fri 18 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:
drivel.tiff
It has to stop... This is pathetic..

Did this go horribly wrong for you?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:51 Fri 18 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
drivel.tiff
It has to stop... This is pathetic..
Did this go horribly wrong for you?

A third of my posts have been wasted saying such things as 'an orange' and 'colonel gaddafi'... We used to be so erudite..