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Post by devoutlyapathetic on May 25, 2008 17:16:58 GMT -8
So....huh.
Baseball in Europe.....negative countdown, count up?..... 22 in 5?
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Post by skid on May 25, 2008 18:44:15 GMT -8
Hmm. This one looks more sane than last one.
So if you take the sub-answers together, I assume we'll get a phrase which is the answer.
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Post by fembot on May 25, 2008 21:01:42 GMT -8
No idea if there's any relevance, but 5+22=27, which is how many independent sovereign countries are in the European Union.
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Post by MrBlarney on May 25, 2008 22:46:04 GMT -8
Ack, ack, ack. Sorry for not being around until now, and I don't know how much I'll be around before our answers are due. I'm rather tired right now and about to turn in.
The form of the puzzle looks somewhat like a rebus, though the pictures don't really match up in that way. I think the middle set of numbers could just be interpreted as 'countdown' with a minus sign in front, rather than 'negative countdown' or 'count up'. But the big question is, how do the components add up? I'm not sure yet. Haven't really had time to look. *groan*
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Post by skid on May 26, 2008 5:51:47 GMT -8
A few things:
The EU map seems to be missing Great Britain entirely.
So it's the map of coutries using the euro, or it's something about GB being missing.
bat/ball thing implies "hit"?
The countdown... if it was -10,-9,-8 that'd be "count-up", but I don't know that -10,9,8,7 means that at all. Could still be countdown. Hmm
Interestingly, there are exactly 27 members of the EU, and 22+5 = 27. Given that Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland are all not pictured, if we found 2 more I'd say that the 22/5 thing has to do with members of the EU that have English as their primary language?
Any EU people able to shed more light on this?
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Post by fembot on May 26, 2008 7:34:24 GMT -8
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Post by devoutlyapathetic on May 26, 2008 8:00:40 GMT -8
I guess the image could refer to sport in general but that's a bit weird given baseball isn't very big in EU countries. That is most assuredly not a cricket bat and ball.
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Post by fembot on May 26, 2008 11:07:43 GMT -8
Unless we can submit a very good guess, we're probably going to have to vote someone out again - so this still applies, gentlemen: I'll volunteer to be the sacrificial lamb if you guys haven't sent in your votes yet. I am operating at a reduced mental capacity right now. |
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Post by MrBlarney on May 26, 2008 14:59:47 GMT -8
Memorial Day, messing everything up!
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Post by fembot on May 26, 2008 15:07:22 GMT -8
In my "better submit something even if it sucks" PM, I desperately mentioned The Final Countdown, but I didn't research it to the extent the other team did. Oh well, they probably submitted it way before I did.
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