| Grizlas | RE: Answer and ask |
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Just wanted to check if anyone was even trying  no point in giving a clue if it's too easy to begin with
So this one is really tough huh?...even the experts like vuzman and norlander are thwarted by my cunning efforts?
guess I'll just have to come up with some easymode clue tomorrow...
/bait
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| OKJones | RE: Answer and ask |
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Sri Lanka 
Sri in sankrit or something means wealth or in this case gold . And Lanca in portugeuse means spear.
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| Norlander | RE: Answer and ask |
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Taking the bait...
No the reason why I don't speed answer these questions anymore is that it just brings up the need to pose new questions and then new answers and after 97 pages of this I'm starting to just don't give a frak. It's fun to look at it sometimes, but I dislike the whole "why doesn't anyone answer this question, come on answer, ok new easier question instead, please answer so you can post a new question" way that this thread is at certain times
Flame on, Sweet chariot...
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| Grizlas | RE: Answer and ask |
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In other words, you're just giving up?
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| Grizlas | RE: Answer and ask |
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not correct OKJones, but a decent attempt.
Clue coming up sometime later today..
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| OKJones | RE: Answer and ask |
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Well, what I said is correct, you're refering to a different island then, ok.
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| Grizlas | RE: Answer and ask |
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My sankrit and portugeuse are a little rusty, but I have no doubt that what you stated is true; - its just not the island the clues are pointing to
speaking of clues:
1: I've discovered a small error of mine: the number 82 is supposed to be 92 - the island is perfectly guessable without the numbers though.
2: Some more pictures that should help you see what you're missing:
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Grizlas attached the following image:
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| Jogvanth | RE: Answer and ask |
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I think that it is somewhat sad, that this, our (by far) most active thread, has died, so I am going to make an attempt at reviving it in a new way.
I propose, that instead of the previous "You answered, so you have to ask the new question" way, that most people apparently have gotten bored with, we make it into a quiz, where people get points for correct answers, with diminished scores the more "clues" are given. If this proves popular, then I can strain to uphold the (apparently) tedious task of posting new questions and keeping scores.
So, to try to kick it off for a double-point score:
What does this painting portray, and who painted it?
[NOTE: Question has been moved here for future reference]
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| Roffen | RE: Answer and ask |
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I'd say necro...
but will still go ahead and give it a shot
Sodoma & Gomorra are destroyed, painted by Leonardo daVinci. ?
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| Norlander | RE: Answer and ask |
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How about you make that idea into a new thread?
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| Jogvanth | RE: Answer and ask |
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Done
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| Norlander | RE: Answer and ask |
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Well I returned to your question at long last, and think I need some more hints
Best I can come up with right now is either Sumatra or Borneo. Both Islands have the meaning Land of Gold, though where Lance Armstrong or the spears and numbers come in to this I don't know
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| Grizlas | RE: Answer and ask |
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Allright, since its been so long, I'll give a small, final, clue.
One of your assumptions is wrong.
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| Norlander | RE: Answer and ask |
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Give a different and better clue
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| Norlander | RE: Answer and ask |
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Ok, so we have gold bars, 4 different types of lances/spears, Lance Armstrong, and a statue of a Khmer goddess and the numbers 32 11 92 75 23.
Sadly the Khmer art form belongs to Laos and Cambodia, both landlocked countries.
This leaves us with what exactly?
Laluu jokingly said that it could be Lance + lot (of gold), and pointing to Avalon (Isle of Apples), Torellion was thinking about Lance and Red gold, becoming Lancarote. I'm partial to it being something silly like Phú Quốc, Socotra, Hainan or Cozumel.
In short: Give a better clue
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| Grizlas | RE: Answer and ask |
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Well, firstly you should keep in mind that the two second pictures are hints to what you are missing about my original ask. The numbers are a simple code that should give you another clue. The name of the picture is a clue aswell.
Put it all, or some of it together in google and you should eventually come up with an island. Good luck
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| OKJones | RE: Answer and ask |
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When I saw the numbers I was thinking about the island in LOST, but the numbers are wrong.
Lance Armstron - Tour de France, maybe it's some french connection.
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| Norlander | RE: Answer and ask |
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Ok a final stupid guess: Treasure Island... btw you're serious about 23j3294167291221.jpg being a hint?
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| Grizlas | RE: Answer and ask |
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I just ran this thing past Marika, and she says she can understand why nobody has guessed this yet. Maybe its too hard, but it didn't seem like it at the time. Still, you're smart people. You should be able to figure this out.
And yeah, the name is a clue and this be no treasure island, even if it might be a dangerous place AARRR!
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| Grizlas | RE: Answer and ask |
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Norlander wanted me to give the answer to this thing, So I will. It has been long enough.
The answer is Ilha_da_Queimada_Grande aka. "snake island"
The pictures where intended to give you "golden lancehead" a species of viper only found on this island (read more). and video
The filename of the picture is made up of the UTM coordinates for the island, and the numbers in the picture are simple code for snake (each number referring to a word number x, letter number y in the original post) - hence the weird wording.
The second clue was meant to show you what you were missing, i.e. lance + head.
If you think this was stupid and impossible to guess, then I'm sorry.
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