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Marg2k8

A search on Google maps has lead me to a village called Scales, but I cannot find any connection with this village and truth.

reniannen

this is just some more ramblings and dead ends really. I went back to looking at scale/s. I ended up on Scale Lane in Hull where the oldest house in Hull stands, there's quite a lot of info on this site and it's now a restaurant called The Cooks Endeavour. Nothing from this got me to anything that seemed likely.

I also had a flash of inspiration that the placename Seascale might fit into find scale, if you find it you 'see' it right?, but unfortunately Seascale Golf Club is one letter short :rotfl:
It got me thinking though, are there any other English placenames with scale in it? I wish google had a wildcard search. The only other places called Scales on it's own are villages or hamlets in the north of England and like Marg2k8 I didn't get anywhere with them. It also means huts in Old Norse if that's of any use!

I also wondered if lead to the truth meant literally that walking across the floor at the V&A would lead you somewhere that fitted the truth. After looking at the floorplan and the video tour I can't see anything that fits though.

P.S. I haven't been using spoilers personally because I think anyone reading this far through the thread is a stumped as we are!

Marg2k8

reniannen wrote: »

It got me thinking though, are there any other English placenames with scale in it? I wish google had a wildcard search.

I also wondered if lead to the truth meant literally that walking across the floor at the V&A would lead you somewhere that fitted the truth. After looking at the floorplan and the video tour I can't see anything that fits though.

P.S. I haven't been using spoilers personally because I think anyone reading this far through the thread is a stumped as we are!

You can use * as a wildcard in Google, but unfortunately, it brings up anything with something before scale, e.g. "The weighing scale shop", so wasn't much help.

I too wondered if leading to the truth meant that following the floor would lead you somewhere that fitted, but I too got nowhere with that one.

I quite agree that there is no point in using spoilers, as anyone reading this far would have highlighted all the text anyway.

Good old Google has also lead to me finding out about "The Great Scales of Truth". Not that this has helped with solving this puzzle, but I am being educated a bit at least :rotfl:

welshbookworm

Windscale has 9 letters (old name for Sellafield), its v close to Seascale.

reniannen

Marg2k8 wrote: »

You can use * as a wildcard in Google, but unfortunately, it brings up anything with something before scale, e.g. "The weighing scale shop", so wasn't much help.

I too wondered if leading to the truth meant that following the floor would lead you somewhere that fitted, but I too got nowhere with that one.

I quite agree that there is no point in using spoilers, as anyone reading this far would have highlighted all the text anyway.

Good old Google has also lead to me finding out about "The Great Scales of Truth". Not that this has helped with solving this puzzle, but I am being educated a bit at least :rotfl:

thanks for the wildcard info I never realised. I've been finding out all about Ma'at and the hall of two truths too, takes me back to doing Egyptians in Primary school I suppose even if we don't get this I've learned some Egyptian mythology, who's buried in the crypt at St Pauls, a bit about the life of a prisoner in Victorian England, that the mad hatter was based on a real person from Chesham, that Scales means huts in Old Norse.... maybe I should go on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and win some real money


ooh windscale thanks!
...goes off a-google-mapping

welshbookworm

A list of all the 'scale' place names I could find in England
https://www.gazetteer.co.uk/cgi-bin/big_test.pl

Cmdr_Bond

Don't forget scale could also be written skale. e.g. skaledale (Yay, I can post links)

Just to make it a bit more confusing.

reniannen

Cmdr_Bond wrote: »

Don't forget scale could also be written skale. e.g. skaledale (Yay, I can post links)

Just to make it a bit more confusing.

congratulations, you're now officially an mse'er :T

thanks for the link welshbookworm, that gazeteer is really useful.

I'm still finding nothing though and I have pages of other comps to do. I'll try and come back later

cdmasters

Hi all,
Really enjoying working out this puzzle, many thanks to reniannen for getting me started cos I would have got nowhere!

I could be completely wrong but I think the 'scale' part is where we may be going wrong. Here is what I've found:-

When doing a search on the pattern of the floor at the V+A Museum of Childhood, one article called the pattern 'curlicue' (no, me neither!).

I then did a search for curlicue+truth and got the following quote:-

'Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end'. This was attributed to a Sid Caesar.

Taking the second word (Caesar) and combining it with golf leads to a company that makes dimpleless golfballs!

I then thought maybe 'homeward' meant their homepage, but that's as far as I got.

As I said I may be completely wrong

reniannen

cdmasters wrote: »

Hi all,
Really enjoying working out this puzzle, many thanks to reniannen for getting me started cos I would have got nowhere!

I could be completely wrong but I think the 'scale' part is where we may be going wrong. Here is what I've found:-

When doing a search on the pattern of the floor at the V+A Museum of Childhood, one article called the pattern 'curlicue' (no, me neither!).

I then did a search for curlicue+truth and got the following quote:-

'Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end'. This was attributed to a Sid Caesar.

Taking the second word (Caesar) and combining it with golf leads to a company that makes dimpleless golfballs!

I then thought maybe 'homeward' meant their homepage, but that's as far as I got.

As I said I may be completely wrong

curlicue, there you go, I've learned a new word today too. I'm not sure Caesar is word two, but I tried it and found the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club which is on Caesar's Camp, near Caesar's Well (source) Sadly they never seem to drop the Royal from their name. Will see if I can find anything else with curlicue...