Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Time To Eat Yet?

Q:


Name something that is part of a group of twelve.  Move the first letter up two places and translate to name something that is part of a group of seven. 






A:


The title mentions time and the image is soup, as in soup du jour.  An hour is part of a group of 12 (excluding military time).  Move up 2 places and you get jour, French for day.  There 7 days in a week.
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7 comments:

  1. janOctober 26, 2011 at 6:54 PM

    Is "up" toward A or Z?

    Is either or both of the groups ordered?

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  2. Tommy BoyOctober 26, 2011 at 10:36 PM

    Up is toward Z. I leave the rest up to you.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 27, 2011 at 7:34 AM

    I enter my guess in the following paragraph, rot13'd to avoid this comment being a spoiler. So whoever wishes to risk spoiling the puzzle for themselves and viewing my guess, simply select the following paragraph and ROT13 it.

    Zl thrff: Whar, bar gur gjryir zbaguf; ==> Yhar, juvpu vf gur serapu jbeq sbe "zbba" (Gbzzl *QVQ* fnl gb genafyngr!), naq gur zbba jnf bar bs gur frira pynffvpny cynargf bs nagvdhvgl. Nppbeqvat gb Jvxvcrqvn, "Va nagvdhvgl gur pynffvpny cynargf jrer gur aba-svkrq bowrpgf ivfvoyr va gur fxl, xabja gb inevbhf napvrag phygherf. Gur pynffvpny cynargf jrer gurersber gur Fha naq Zbba naq gur svir aba-rnegu cynargf bs bhe fbyne flfgrz pybfrfg gb gur fha (naq pybfrfg gb gur Rnegu); nyy rnfvyl ivfvoyr jvgubhg n gryrfpbcr. Gurl ner Zrephel, Irahf, Znef, Whcvgre, naq Fnghea."

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  4. Tommy BoyOctober 27, 2011 at 9:30 AM

    Oenib, Raln...

    Npprcgnoyr nafjre ohg abg zl vagraqrq bar. Gur nafjre vf zber trareny, yrff fcrpvsvp. Lbhe pubvpr bs ynathntr vf pbeerpg. Pbafvqre gur gvgyr naq vzntr.

    Bu,naq gunaxf sbe vagebqhpvat zr gb ebg gure' grra!

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  5. AnonymousOctober 28, 2011 at 6:47 AM

    I earlier posted my guess rot13'd, Tommy Boy then posted back a rot13 essentially telling me my answer was acceptable albeit not his intended one. The paragraph below is my revised guess as to his *intended* answer, also rot13'd.

    Zl thrff nf gb Gbzzl'f vagraqrq nafjre: Ubhe (gurer ner gjryir fhpu ba n pybpx snpr) ==> Wbhe, juvpu vf gur serapu jbeq sbe "qnl" (gurer ner frira fhpu va n jrrx). V fhccbfr guvf nafjre hfvat zber trareny nafjref vf nyfb n ovg zber qrongrnoyr. (V, sbe bar, guvax bs na ubhe gb zber n pbyyrpgvba bs gjraglsbhe {gur ahzore bs fhpu va n qnl} guna bs gjryir.) Naljnl, V srry zber pbzsbegnoyr abj va gur oryvrs gung vg jnf ABG arprffnel gb vqragvsl whfg jung gung fbhc JNF, whfg gung vg jnf gur fbhc "qr wbhe".

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  6. janOctober 28, 2011 at 4:05 PM

    N sevraq bs zvar bapr nfxrq n jnvgerff jung gur fbhc qh wbhe jnf. "Bu, gung'f gur fbhc bs gur qnl," fur fnvq.

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  7. Tommy BoyOctober 28, 2011 at 4:10 PM

    unun

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