E: 06/09Win Gold Bullion (Mega Help Needed *eek* *rotfl*)

itsmeagain221

Just coming back to this...did anyone fathom out the 3 word anagram? I've tried lots of different combinations but nothing has jumped out at me yet.

zargle

Nope tried several combinations - I think it may contain a name from the book which may not appear in an anagram speller. Grrr. Jo

compingbean

I keep looking at this. Just thinking maybe the final clue is something different - otherwise there's no 'letter' further than the fifth one.
Just not sure what tho. lol

celtigra

I've given up - I only hope that they post the answer somewhere eventually, so we can all see the solution!:(

anh1904

I've pretty much given up.

Sage, or Ace seemed to be my main lines of thinking for one of the words, but with the letters all my different logic interpretations came up with, I just can't find anything to make sense.

anh1904

http://www.solverscrabble.com/solver/
Allows you to enter some (up to 3) wild characters, and then gives a very long list of permissable words.
You could open 3 sessions, find one word, then see what "others" come up from the remaining letter, with wild (?) characters for the least confident answers.
Still getting nowhere ...

anh1904

Alternatives in case they provide any insiration:

Taking Puzzle 6 to be "use answer A from puzzle B and take letter C" [FONT=&quot](Part, Day, letter:)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A A A (or R) C E M G (or L) R S S U A (or T)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]So:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]AAACEMGRSSUA[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Or[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]AARCEMLRSSUAT[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A smart secular (?)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Or taking Letter A from answer B from Puzzle C ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]Letter, answer, puzzle)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]G F A O (or O) R H T (or R) L (or R) S Z O (or E) A (or T)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]So:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]GFAORHTLSZOA[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]or[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]GFAORHRRSZET[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The “Z” really hurts these options![/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Alternatively, has anyone given any thought to why puzzle 6 is printed in the order it is? If you have to re-arrange the letters anyway, why isn't the puzzle in numerical order, is this significant?[/FONT]

anh1904

Some more ideas to hopefully inspire some lateral or more hopefully inspriational thinking:

There are 40 answers in the 5 puzzles: 10 from Puzzle 1, 5 from puzzle 2, 5 from puzzle 3, and 10 each from puzzles 4 and 5.
They were posed as 5, 5, 5, paragraph (10?) and 5 "Questions"

The sum of the digits for parts 1, 2 and 3 of puzzle 6, are 34, 36 and 40 respectively (in case any of them mean "now move on "X" answers/words")

All 3 parts of puzzle 6 use all the numbers 1 to 5 inclusive

The only answers with less than 5 letters are: LEO; ARCH; TOMB and FORT

The answers to Question 4 remain my least confident

Puzzles 1 3 and 5 use codes to determine the answers (trying to interpret the 1-2-3 as Use the code from Q1, for word 2 letter 3 type of thing) - but that logic is flawed with anything relating to questions 2 or 4

anh1904

Typo in post 58! Worse still, I fed that into the anagram software-

Taking Puzzle 6 to be "use answer A from puzzle B and take letter C" (Part, Day, letter)
That gives us AARCEMLRSSUT to play with (I left the "A" in as well as the T at the end which replaces it (letter 5 from word 5 in part 5, i.e. the T in Grant not the A in STTYALCEYR)

This last option gives literally thousands of words in the anagram software - not that that means it is the right combination of course, but it makes for a lot more realistic options.

kayby

Please forgive me if I'm giving the wrong info. Is not the word 'cave' one of the structures in puzzle. Here it it:
Tom had first met his best pal, a celebrated archaeologist from Sicily called Umberto, at Aix-la-Chapelle, when they excCAVEted a site together which was believed to date from the time of Charlemagne. They had been friendly rivals ever since. Once, thinking it might amuse Umberto (and confident he was the better driver), Tom bought a couple of tickets for a track day at Silverstone. Although Umberto wasn’t all that keen to take part, he nonetheless took up the challenge when his friend goaded him saying, “Come on, Umberto, we’re doing this.” Unfortunately, Tom’s car vaulted the security tyres at the first corner, shot eleven metres into the air, and he cracked three ribs when it landed upside down. They haven’t spoken since.