Let's become british spies AKA logic puzzles challenge

Palum · Dec 10, 2015

Deconstructing the javascript function the url is:

http://www.[wordA]-[wordB]-[wordC].org.uk/[wordD]

So far that means it's

http://www.cub-[wordB]-[wordC].org.uk/[wordD]

Szlia · Dec 10, 2015

Nice catch on CUB.

We still don't know how the answer to the color question in Step 2 is found though.

Palum · Dec 10, 2015

I mean fuck it, maybe there isn't, if you're going to be a spy you should know how to brute force an answer sometimes.

#waterboardingservers

Merrith · Dec 10, 2015

Szlia_sl said:
Nice catch on CUB.

We still don't know how the answer to the color question in Step 2 is found though.

It's Pi expressed in snooker ball colors.

Palum · Dec 11, 2015

lol ok well

Quick google search and a whois returns this for the domain cub-zone-often.org.uk:

Domain name:
cub-zone-often.org.uk

Registrant:
CESG

Registrant type:
UK Government Body

Registrant's address:
c/o GCHQ, Hubble Road
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL51 0EX
United Kingdom

Data validation:
Nominet was able to match the registrant's name and address against a 3rd party data source on 16-Feb-2015

Registrar:
CESG [Tag = CESG]

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 20-Nov-2015
Expiry date: 20-Nov-2017
Last updated: 27-Nov-2015

So yea, GCHQ just registered it.

We just need the last word on the last question now, answers two and three are ZONE and OFTEN obviously. These guys ARE amateurs...

Troll_sl · Dec 11, 2015

Q3 are names. I'm also thinking they have to do with the phonetic alphabet.

"VICTOR" MATURE

"----" LOVE

"OSCAR" WILDE

"CHARLIE" BUCKET

"----" BECKHAM

ZULU

iannis · Dec 11, 2015

torrent could be a noun or a verb, the others are singularly either nouns or verbs. By that criteria it's odd. Althougth I suppose saffron is possibly a noun or adjective, so it's not unique.

Szlia · Dec 11, 2015

1) Withdraw as sailors hold festive sing-song
2) It receives a worker and returns a queen <---- CELL as in the honeycomb cell where a worker's larvae is fed to become a queen?
3) Try and sing medley of violin parts <---- ALTO both a type of violine and a singing voice range
4) Fit for capture <---- I want to say PAWN but what vertical word would have a LTW sequence?
5)
6)
7) ?

Palum · Dec 11, 2015

Troll_sl said:
Q3 are names. I'm also thinking they have to do with the phonetic alphabet.

"VICTOR" MATURE

"----" LOVE

"OSCAR" WILDE

"CHARLIE" BUCKET

"----" BECKHAM

ZULU

Still doesn't make sense as it's david beckham right? David is the one without any NATO phonetic alphabet then.

Merrith · Dec 11, 2015

Palum_sl said:
Still doesn't make sense as it's david beckham right? David is the one without any NATO phonetic alphabet then.

His son is named Romeo

Palum · Dec 11, 2015

OK so only one with last name instead of first name as radio alphabet. OK.

Troll_sl · Dec 11, 2015

Was just trying to think outside the box.

Merrith · Dec 11, 2015

Szlia_sl said:
1) Withdraw as sailors hold festive sing-song
2) It receives a worker and returns a queen <---- CELL as in the honeycomb cell where a worker's larvae is fed to become a queen?
3) Try and sing medley of violin parts <---- ALTO both a type of violine and a singing voice range
4) Fit for capture <---- I want to say PAWN but what vertical word would have a LTW sequence?
5)
6)
7) ?

Wait...don't they all need to be 7 word long answers for 7 clues?

Szlia · Dec 11, 2015

I assumed the crossword puzzle did not have to be 7x7. As I found two decent answer in 4 letters, I went for 7x4 (also at a somewhat meta level, it's a lot easier to craft the puzzle with a 7x4 than with a 7x7).

And Troll's solution for the Shaka riddle is probably the one they expected (Victor Mature, Mike Love, Oscar Wilde, Charlie Bucket, Romeo Beckham, Shaka Zulu).

Merrith · Dec 11, 2015

Szlia_sl said:
I assumed the crossword puzzle did not have to be 7x7. As I found two decent answer in 4 letters, I went for 7x4 (also at a somewhat meta level, it's a lot easier to craft the puzzle with a 7x4 than with a 7x7).

Makes sense

Palum · Dec 11, 2015

It's seven though. Maybe that's just how they make them in the Islamic State of Britain.

Szlia · Dec 11, 2015

Maybe I got the problem wrong, but my understanding is that we have 4 of the 7 definition for the across words and none of the X definitions for the down words and that the only way to find the 7th across word is to find the X down words that starts with the 4 letters we get from the 4 across words and that make actual X letters word on lines 5, 6 and 7 (with 7 being the answer).

I am not sure if I am being clear...

Troll_sl · Dec 11, 2015

We know the down-word(s) are 7 letters long. The clues all have equal-length answers. We don't know how long those will be.

ahh run · Dec 11, 2015

http://www.cub-zone-often.org.uk/layered/

52 30.87 208

Hekotat · Dec 11, 2015

Watching you guys come up with these answers makes me feel like a dumbass.

Wasn't Chicada supposed to return sometime this year?

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