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Old 05-21-2014, 07:58 PM   #13921
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Hmmm...OK, I can take a hint as well as the next man. Would somebody else care to put up a quiz more to people's liking.

I'll be over here in the corner, eating worms.
We obviously aren't Bletchley material! There there.
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Old 05-21-2014, 08:22 PM   #13922
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1. You may have seen a cakedance but have you seen plenty of this? (9)
2. Lots of lucre but little luck. (5, 7)
3. " !" (1, 6, 1, 4)
1. Abundance
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Old 05-21-2014, 09:23 PM   #13923
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2. I figure it has to be ___ fortune, but I can't come up with the five-letter word.
3. Totally stymied.
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Old 05-21-2014, 09:45 PM   #13924
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With Issybird's nudge for fortune, is 2 "cruel fortune"? Cruel is an anagram of lucre.
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Old 05-22-2014, 04:32 AM   #13925
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Old 05-22-2014, 06:08 AM   #13926
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1. Abundance
Yes!

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2. I figure it has to be ___ fortune, but I can't come up with the five-letter word.
3. Totally stymied.
It is _____ fortune. The clue is the word "little".
" Totally stymied" is almost correct! See pdurrant's answer below.

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With Issybird's nudge for fortune, is 2 "cruel fortune"? Cruel is an anagram of lucre.
Not correct, but a damn good theory.

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3. I haven't a clue
Correct!
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Old 05-22-2014, 07:41 AM   #13927
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2. I figure it has to be ___ fortune, but I can't come up with the five-letter word.
"small" fortune?

(with apologies to issy for pinching your thunder...)
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Old 05-22-2014, 08:50 AM   #13928
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"small" fortune?

(with apologies to issy for pinching your thunder...)
There you go! And it was open season; I was stuck.

I just couldn't bear the thought of poor Bilbo in his corner, snacking on worms.
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Old 05-22-2014, 09:58 AM   #13929
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"small" fortune?

(with apologies to issy for pinching your thunder...)
Yes indeed.

I think it's a draw between everybody that gave an answer so whoever has a quiz please go for it.
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Old 05-22-2014, 10:14 AM   #13930
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Well I do have one in mind - it was something I was musing on the other day, and thought it might make a quiz question. Give me a mo to compose the question.
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Old 05-22-2014, 10:21 AM   #13931
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"As I was going to St Ives" is a traditional English-language nursery rhyme in the form of a riddle.

The most common modern version is:

As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits,
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?

Your challenge is to work out the answer to the riddle.
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Old 05-22-2014, 10:37 AM   #13932
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Your challenge is to work out the answer to the riddle.

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Just one!
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Old 05-22-2014, 10:48 AM   #13933
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Just one!
Well, there's a twist in the tail for this one. pdurrant has indeed posted the most common (and usually expected) answer, which is "one". The theory being that as "I" was going to St. Ives, I met the group coming the other way, so that I was the only one actually going to St. Ives.

However, there are purportedly up to nine different answers to the riddle, so the challenge is to guess as many of them as you can. A point for each.

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1 - pdurrant - 1 point
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Old 05-22-2014, 10:52 AM   #13934
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OK, suppose "I" caught up with them, and they were also going the same way. Then you could say that nine people were going to St Ives. (I, the man and the 7 wives)

But you might also want to include the cats and kits, in which case the answer is 2753.
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Then again, you might take the last line as referring only to the penultimate line:

Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?

In which case the answer is 7+7^2+7^3+7^4 = 2800
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