RASH Puzzle #1 - Musical Artists
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:08 am
RASH Puzzle #1 - Musical Artists
This is an actual geocaching puzzle, where the idea is to come up with a set of GPS coordinates from the given clues. I had to translate it by hand from an image so I hope I got it right. Full disclosure: this is not my work and I take no credit for it. A geocacher from Massachusetts came up with this puzzle and many others.
If you have any questions, ask in the thread and I'll do my best to answer them.
All BBs are invited to play alone or as a group. Good luck!
Relative-Antonym-Synonym-Homophone
RASH Puzzles Rules: The clues are mixtures of components (words or syllables) that, when verbally replaced with appropriate counterparts, will integrate into answers that correspond to the puzzle’s theme.
1. Relatives are like things. Apples and oranges are relatives in the fruit family; Cupid and Blitzen are relatives in Santa’s reindeer; Mars and Jupiter are relatives in the family of planets.
2. Antonyms are opposites: black and white, will and won’t, now and then.
3. Synonyms are different words with similar meanings: yellow and amber, cold and brisk, trash and rubbish, near and close.
4. Homophones/homonyms. Homophones are pronounced the same, have different meanings, and may or may not have the same spelling: merry, marry and Mary. Homonyms have the same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings: bank (edge of a river, carom, or depository).
Here are a few explanatory notes to help you solve:
• If you can get a part of a clue, you can usually reason through the twisted combination of “nyms” to get the whole answer.
• Some homonyms are not exact, but close. For example, day may be as close as we could get to Dave. Such rough homonyms are denoted in italics to alert the solver to beware.
• Hyphens separate syllables (single or multiple) within a single word. For example, Gas-yuk could translate to Air (synonym for gas) –ick (synonym for yuk). This could represent Eric (translating the appropriate homophones).
• Multiple words with no spaces constitute a single syllable or word. (For example, foursidedfigure could be replaced by square, rhombus, rectangle, etc.)
• Underlined words or letters are not replaced; they are left as-is. For example, the remains untranslated as the in the answer.
Example: Stoop Old -> Neil Young
Neil (a homonym of kneel, a synonym for stoop) and young (an antonym of old)
1. Beers Fall-mug
2. Me Also
3. Lupine-thugs Castletrenches-craft
4. The Criminals
5. Mute Tails
6. Congestion
7. Dog St-odds
8. Genuflect Emerald
9. Float Ocean-anxious
10. The Cashew Sisters
11. Hot-work
12. EllieMay Tax
13. Ominous Curves
14. Pal Sacred
15. Evil Guests
16. Blackbirds-ant, Photos and Teethgrind
17. Magenta Deluge
18. Humor-ankle Dallas
19. Shirtarm Lose-lumber
20. Trailed Blimp
21. Shorthaircut Sellingdrugs
22. Auto-win Kriskringle-nope
23. Coldblooded Dike
24. Temperamental Pinks
25. Pumpkineater Angelofmary
26. Head-patella Dinero
27. Chasm Bald-daughter
28. Swift-iron PC
29. Belief Muddy-H2O Renaissance
30. Maleturkey Trivial or the Liver-waves
31. The Virtuous Siblings
32. Look-lowinfat Belowaveragegrade-off
33. Spade
34. The Against Bottoms
35. The Joint Fraternity
36. Oilrig ampersand the Bones
37. Hipbone Iron-meadow
38. UKwatercloset-isn’t Leg-weak
39. Pub-bikinitop Gait-beach
40. Regal Sadmood Rant-street
41. Handtruck Excuse
42. Awesome-empty Alive
43. Regular-hobo
44. Utilityvehicle Less-daughter
45. Stylish-past
46. Toastmaster Mallet
47. Pointer-jones
48. Soil, Zephyr and Terminate
49. Pryopen Egglayer-bores
50. Bison Coil-pasture
A = The sum of all numbers represented in the 50 elements
B = The number of occurrences of double letter combinations (e.g., oo, ll, ff, etc.) across the 50 elements
C = The number of elements whose first word start with the letter B
D = How many of the top 10 most populous American cities are represented in the 50 elements
E = How many times the letter “x” occurs in the 50 elements
F = The number of elements that are male artists or all-male groups
North: 42 A + B - D . CEC (just the digits, no multiplication)
West: 071 F – A - C + E . A*A + B*B
Note: Format for GPS coordinates is : N 42 (2 digits).(3 digits), W 071 (2 digits).(3 digits)
This is an actual geocaching puzzle, where the idea is to come up with a set of GPS coordinates from the given clues. I had to translate it by hand from an image so I hope I got it right. Full disclosure: this is not my work and I take no credit for it. A geocacher from Massachusetts came up with this puzzle and many others.
If you have any questions, ask in the thread and I'll do my best to answer them.
All BBs are invited to play alone or as a group. Good luck!
Relative-Antonym-Synonym-Homophone
RASH Puzzles Rules: The clues are mixtures of components (words or syllables) that, when verbally replaced with appropriate counterparts, will integrate into answers that correspond to the puzzle’s theme.
1. Relatives are like things. Apples and oranges are relatives in the fruit family; Cupid and Blitzen are relatives in Santa’s reindeer; Mars and Jupiter are relatives in the family of planets.
2. Antonyms are opposites: black and white, will and won’t, now and then.
3. Synonyms are different words with similar meanings: yellow and amber, cold and brisk, trash and rubbish, near and close.
4. Homophones/homonyms. Homophones are pronounced the same, have different meanings, and may or may not have the same spelling: merry, marry and Mary. Homonyms have the same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings: bank (edge of a river, carom, or depository).
Here are a few explanatory notes to help you solve:
• If you can get a part of a clue, you can usually reason through the twisted combination of “nyms” to get the whole answer.
• Some homonyms are not exact, but close. For example, day may be as close as we could get to Dave. Such rough homonyms are denoted in italics to alert the solver to beware.
• Hyphens separate syllables (single or multiple) within a single word. For example, Gas-yuk could translate to Air (synonym for gas) –ick (synonym for yuk). This could represent Eric (translating the appropriate homophones).
• Multiple words with no spaces constitute a single syllable or word. (For example, foursidedfigure could be replaced by square, rhombus, rectangle, etc.)
• Underlined words or letters are not replaced; they are left as-is. For example, the remains untranslated as the in the answer.
Example: Stoop Old -> Neil Young
Neil (a homonym of kneel, a synonym for stoop) and young (an antonym of old)
1. Beers Fall-mug
2. Me Also
3. Lupine-thugs Castletrenches-craft
4. The Criminals
5. Mute Tails
6. Congestion
7. Dog St-odds
8. Genuflect Emerald
9. Float Ocean-anxious
10. The Cashew Sisters
11. Hot-work
12. EllieMay Tax
13. Ominous Curves
14. Pal Sacred
15. Evil Guests
16. Blackbirds-ant, Photos and Teethgrind
17. Magenta Deluge
18. Humor-ankle Dallas
19. Shirtarm Lose-lumber
20. Trailed Blimp
21. Shorthaircut Sellingdrugs
22. Auto-win Kriskringle-nope
23. Coldblooded Dike
24. Temperamental Pinks
25. Pumpkineater Angelofmary
26. Head-patella Dinero
27. Chasm Bald-daughter
28. Swift-iron PC
29. Belief Muddy-H2O Renaissance
30. Maleturkey Trivial or the Liver-waves
31. The Virtuous Siblings
32. Look-lowinfat Belowaveragegrade-off
33. Spade
34. The Against Bottoms
35. The Joint Fraternity
36. Oilrig ampersand the Bones
37. Hipbone Iron-meadow
38. UKwatercloset-isn’t Leg-weak
39. Pub-bikinitop Gait-beach
40. Regal Sadmood Rant-street
41. Handtruck Excuse
42. Awesome-empty Alive
43. Regular-hobo
44. Utilityvehicle Less-daughter
45. Stylish-past
46. Toastmaster Mallet
47. Pointer-jones
48. Soil, Zephyr and Terminate
49. Pryopen Egglayer-bores
50. Bison Coil-pasture
A = The sum of all numbers represented in the 50 elements
B = The number of occurrences of double letter combinations (e.g., oo, ll, ff, etc.) across the 50 elements
C = The number of elements whose first word start with the letter B
D = How many of the top 10 most populous American cities are represented in the 50 elements
E = How many times the letter “x” occurs in the 50 elements
F = The number of elements that are male artists or all-male groups
North: 42 A + B - D . CEC (just the digits, no multiplication)
West: 071 F – A - C + E . A*A + B*B
Note: Format for GPS coordinates is : N 42 (2 digits).(3 digits), W 071 (2 digits).(3 digits)