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

compingbean

ok so there's about 2 days to go on this.
Is anyone getting any further?
I skimmed through the book again and the only thing thats making me think is to work backwards - ie take a character and see what would fit...Still coming up blank, but I was thinking maybe it was Midas, or his daughter, rather than one of the humans in the book...Simply because...well...to be fair to the writer..its not really character driven

Unfortunately I don't have the book with me now, so I guess this is a pass (I love cracking codes too)

marcofoo

Perhaps somebody who has the book could list all of the characters and we can work backwards? Something might twig.

Thanks for all the efforts so far.

jaibaby

Giving it a final bump - I have a feeling puzzle 6 is as follows:
First number is the question, Second is the answer and third is the letter. So for 1-2-3; question 1, answer 2, letter 3...... we have 51 which is U for that puzzle..... bit confused about puzzle four as that is the only one with 10 answers in (all the rest have 5 - in a way).

So, I'm left with UEASCHGGSRUA - which hasn't got me far. As someone said, hundreds of possible answers. I did use the anagram thing shown earlier in the thread, and asked for "USES" to be included, with that it came up with two solutions of "USES RAGA CHUG" and "USES AGAR CHUG" - not sure if that means anything?

Then I noticed someone suggest "It's all Greek to me" - and thought about swapping the letters for those of the Greek alphabet. But couldn't find anything to help me make words. If anyone does speak Greek, now would be a fab time to come and help

Otherwise, I think this'll be just one of those comps that gets away
If we can't manage to solve it, I for one shall be asking for the solution, just so I can sleep

Fingers crossed someone can help

Matryoshka

For a gold bullion, they've sure made this one tough haven't they :rotfl:

Jaycee21

jaibaby wrote: »

Giving it a final bump - I have a feeling puzzle 6 is as follows:
First number is the question, Second is the answer and third is the letter. So for 1-2-3; question 1, answer 2, letter 3...... we have 51 which is U for that puzzle..... bit confused about puzzle four as that is the only one with 10 answers in (all the rest have 5 - in a way).

So, I'm left with UEASCHGGSRUA - which hasn't got me far. As someone said, hundreds of possible answers. I did use the anagram thing shown earlier in the thread, and asked for "USES" to be included, with that it came up with two solutions of "USES RAGA CHUG" and "USES AGAR CHUG" - not sure if that means anything?

Then I noticed someone suggest "It's all Greek to me" - and thought about swapping the letters for those of the Greek alphabet. But couldn't find anything to help me make words. If anyone does speak Greek, now would be a fab time to come and help

Otherwise, I think this'll be just one of those comps that gets away
If we can't manage to solve it, I for one shall be asking for the solution, just so I can sleep

Fingers crossed someone can help

I got this form the letters

ACHES GAS GURU or ARGUE SUCH GAS

Sorry not very useful in this quiz, but maybe this will help!

zargle

Have to admit I'm hoping for inspiration from you guys!! I solved the clues and got the anagram, the Greek bit may mean it's a description of Archimedes or (at a pinch) Midas. But I must admit to still being foxed. I've read through the book several times and am still none the wiser.

novo_2

zargle wrote: »

Have to admit I'm hoping for inspiration from you guys!! I solved the clues and got the anagram, the Greek bit may mean it's a description of Archimedes or (at a pinch) Midas. But I must admit to still being foxed. I've read through the book several times and am still none the wiser.

what letters for the anagram are you using?

jaibaby

There has to be someone who can help us

The countdown is on...... less than 9 hours

ITYIYBMAB

IanCTR wrote: »

This puzzle is all Greek to me!

Is this a massive hint? If so, needed to be bigger

marcl

Remember "...form a three-word description of one of the characters in The Midas Code." HTH