One quiz at a time

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:45 Mon 20 Jan 2014

Nice twist, something that you might have done before but aren't sure. I was thinking (a slow event)

Removed the entire capsule rather than just cut away the top?

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:46 Mon 20 Jan 2014

LGTrotter wrote:Removed the entire capsule rather than just cut away the top?

Quite often I pull of the whole capsule.

Not related to the capsule.

(Answers soon: I’m off to bed in ten.)

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:49 Mon 20 Jan 2014

I think we have been deserted. However I have to stay up and start a new thread on an old chestnut. Night.

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:50 Mon 20 Jan 2014

One could do this same thing to un-fortified wine, but, as with the Port, if I have done it before, it has been very rare.

Post by **DRT** » 23:54 Mon 20 Jan 2014

Did you pour more in your wife's glass than you did in your own?

Post by **DRT** » 23:55 Mon 20 Jan 2014

jdaw1 wrote:Quite often I pull of the whole capsule.

I'm letting this go.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:04 Tue 21 Jan 2014

Port tongs, use of?

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:04 Tue 21 Jan 2014

DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:Quite often I pull of the whole capsule.
I'm letting this go.

{Sackcloth and ashes}

DRT wrote:Did you pour more in your wife's glass than you did in your own?

No. Not involving the used glasses.

djewesbury wrote:Port tongs, use of?

Use previously, multiple times.

The done thing is, rightly, frowned upon. By me, amongst others.

Now it really is good night.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:08 Tue 21 Jan 2014

jdaw1 wrote:The done thing is, rightly, frowned upon. By me, amongst others.

So the done thing isn't the done thing. As it were.

Pop'n'pour?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:09 Tue 21 Jan 2014

djewesbury wrote:Port tongs, use of?

Morning, been out somewhere nice tonight?

Post by **DRT** » 00:32 Tue 21 Jan 2014

Passed to the right?

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:34 Tue 21 Jan 2014

Computer off. Showered. Pre-sleep TapaTalk.

LGTrotter wrote:So the done thing isn't the done thing. As it were.

Quite.

LGTrotter wrote:Pop'n'pour?

P&P happens considerably more often than never.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:35 Tue 21 Jan 2014

LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Port tongs, use of?
Morning, been out somewhere nice tonight?

I was watching the second part of the BBC NI interview with Ian Paisley. Lovely to see them all stabbing one another in the back.

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:36 Tue 21 Jan 2014

DRT wrote:Passed to the right?

Me and the missus? Passed to self? Much more often than never.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:38 Tue 21 Jan 2014

jdaw1 wrote:P&P happens considerably more often than never.

An ampersand cannot save you from disapprobation.

Post by **DRT** » 00:44 Tue 21 Jan 2014

Port and lemon?

{I really hope not!}

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 07:21 Tue 21 Jan 2014

You had white port and poured some water into it. Like you might do with white wine in summer.

Post by **jdaw1** » 08:21 Tue 21 Jan 2014

It could be argued that the problem was that something was mixed with the Port, but that might mislead.

Not water; not lemon.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 09:03 Tue 21 Jan 2014

Whisky chasers.

Post by **jdaw1** » 09:16 Tue 21 Jan 2014

djewesbury wrote:Whisky chasers.

No. Not yesterday evening.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 09:20 Tue 21 Jan 2014

djewesbury wrote:Port tongs, use of?

Post by **PhilW** » 09:22 Tue 21 Jan 2014

You heated it up?

Post by **PhilW** » 09:22 Tue 21 Jan 2014

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Port tongs, use of?
Use previously, multiple times.

Post by **jdaw1** » 13:17 Tue 21 Jan 2014

PhilW wrote:You heated it up?

No. Well, some went in the bolognaise, but that also happens often enough.

The origin of the thing was, I suppose, laziness.

Post by **jdaw1** » 13:24 Tue 21 Jan 2014

jdaw1 wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:This evening the adults Wisemans drank Port. I did something unusual with the Port. I can’t be sure that I have never done it before, but if I have done it, I have done it very rarely.

What did I do?

Post by **PhilW** » 13:24 Tue 21 Jan 2014

You poured the port over your pudding?

Post by **jdaw1** » 13:26 Tue 21 Jan 2014

PhilW wrote:You poured the port over your pudding?

Not your turn.

PopulusTremula · Post by **PopulusTremula** » 14:58 Tue 21 Jan 2014

jdaw1 wrote:
PhilW wrote:You heated it up?
No. Well, some went in the bolognaise, but that also happens often enough.

The origin of the thing was, I suppose, laziness.

You drank it through a straw directly from the bottle as you had no clean glasses or other vessels at hand.

Sent from my GT-I9195 using Tapatalk 2

Post by **PhilW** » 15:02 Tue 21 Jan 2014

PhilW wrote:You poured the port over your pudding?

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:12 Tue 21 Jan 2014

No and no.

Clue: they were half bottles.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 15:39 Tue 21 Jan 2014

I can only guess you mixed two halves together?

Post by **PhilW** » 16:15 Tue 21 Jan 2014

or perhaps more specifically, decanted two bottles into a single decanter?

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 16:34 Tue 21 Jan 2014

Created your own Crusted cuvee by blending two halves from different years?

Post by **jdaw1** » 18:58 Tue 21 Jan 2014

LGTrotter wrote:I can only guess you mixed two halves together?

Correct, but borderline incomplete.

PhilW wrote:or perhaps more specifically, decanted two bottles into a single decanter?

Fuller, better, but later.

First of you two to post the next question is the Question Master.

Mrs W wanted some port for cooking. The remainder of a half of Croft LBV 2004 went into a decanter. It looked just so small and pathetic that another was added as a top-up. Very rarely do I mix bottles. On this occasion, it seems that no harm was done.

Post by **PhilW** » 19:59 Tue 21 Jan 2014

I have a question, and will post it in 15mins if LGTrotter does not post a question prior to that.

Post by **PhilW** » 20:27 Tue 21 Jan 2014

New question:

A mathematical port fanatic keeps his port in a (temperature and humidity controlled) safe, the key to which is an electronic 6-digit PIN. As he cannot reliably remember this PIN, he has worked out that with each letter representing a different number, he can add three port houses with the total being a fourth, this total being a six digit number. Unfortunately, he has forgotten one of the port houses. He remembers this:

Code: Select all

   CALEM
   ?????
+ OFFLEY
  ------
= TAYLOR

Determine the missing port name and the sum and hence identify the PIN to the safe to allow access to the port!

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:31 Tue 21 Jan 2014

Eleven?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:37 Tue 21 Jan 2014

If he knows the total, does it matter? He must remember what each letter stands for and therefore if the result is TAYLOR he knows the combination.

My go.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:52 Tue 21 Jan 2014

Twelve?

Post by **PhilW** » 23:08 Tue 21 Jan 2014

LGTrotter wrote:Eleven?

LGTrotter wrote:Twelve?

Are these six digit numbers? No, I thought not!

djewesbury wrote:If he knows the total, does it matter? He must remember what each letter stands for and therefore if the result is TAYLOR he knows the combination.

My go.

No. He cannot remember what numbers the letters stand for, however he used to be able to remember the names of the four port houses, and so could then easily solve the puzzle to get the PIN.

It's not as hard as it may seem to make progress. A clue at lunchtime tomorrow if needed.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:21 Tue 21 Jan 2014

Graham 123456

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 23:40 Tue 21 Jan 2014

PhilW wrote:A mathematical port fanatic

jdaw1 is going to be upset that you're teaching us how to break into his wine cellar.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:44 Tue 21 Jan 2014

Every so often I wish Derek was drunk.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 05:37 Wed 22 Jan 2014

Well my brain isn't functioning at its best, so the only progress I can make is that none of {C,O,T} represents 0.

Also, the set of letters (assuming base 10) is {A,C,E,F,L,M,O,R,T,Y}.

There. I got you started!

Wait... I will make a guess. CROFT?

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 05:55 Wed 22 Jan 2014

Also, T>O.

Post by **PhilW** » 07:11 Wed 22 Jan 2014

Good progress by Glenn; I wil confirm that base 10 is a correct assumption.

Post by **jdaw1** » 11:21 Wed 22 Jan 2014

Cryptographic nonsense. Attack codes at their weakest point. In this example, deducing the code is more work, and less reliable work, than guessing each possible answer. There aren’t many:

Adams
Avery
Cálem
Cedro
Croft
Dalva
Dixon
Feist
Judeu
Kopke
Krohn
Noval
Poças
Roriz
Rozès
Sibio
Souza
Warre

And some are more likely than others.

Krohn?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 12:23 Wed 22 Jan 2014

Warre?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 12:35 Wed 22 Jan 2014

Once JDAW has guessed Noval I will guess Dalva. Perhaps he'll then guess Souza?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 12:36 Wed 22 Jan 2014

At which point I'll guess Croft and he'll guess Kopke.
That should do for a while.