Teh Gimmickry - Test Your Extensive Knowledge and Riddle Solving

I've been thinking in terms of physics and music for instance:
Sound waves travel through air
Winds are the atmospheric equivalent of ocean waves
radio stations call broadcasting being "on air"
In Celtic music an "air" is a lament

But it's led me nowhere. Why isn't ireland the answer?
 
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I gave up when I thought of Eire. Too many tracks to follow!

We might have worse to come...
I see that #17 and #18 are also the work of nullzero/nullmask, the creator of this beast and #8, the evil "Will you let me out?" riddle.

But hang in there... only five to go after this one!
 
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I googled renamed air and got that a show on XM was being renamed air america radio... but that didnt turn up anything... feel free to go over it if I missed anything
 
I agree, notpr0n is better, as far as puzzles are concerned, but I already got really far on it. And besides, this thread is for teh gimmickry.

As far as renamed air is concerned, I still haven't the slightest idea. Maybe 'air' in a different language? The language of a country surrounded by water? I don't know. I think I will try this path later today when I have time.
 
This thread is about Teh Gimmickry.
If you want to get people to play your little riddle game, please make a new thread, it's annoying to the people who are trying to concentrate on Gimmickry, and come in to see what angles people have tried.
 
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upthorn said:
This thread is about Teh Gimmickry.
If you want to get people to play your little riddle game, please make a new thread, it's annoying to the people who are trying to concentrate on Gimmickry, and come in to see what angles people have tried.
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Point taken. I do think folks are reacting to the frustration that the puzzle appears to be broken. If it weren't for a liberal amount of cheating, we'd have given up on 11. I know for a fact that folks have been hitting their server with word lists of a quarter million words and found no luck. Something is up with this one and nullmask refuses to answer email. I think folks are all but giving up on this one. I am, too.
 
Well you have to look at it like this. Take for instance the last one. You have a picture of what appears to be a sunset in the desert with a plateau. The hints were old west and gold.

The kind of reasoning and logic applied to get the answer would make it quite hard to figure out these riddles. How do you go from old west and gold to the answer. I mean it takes a good stretch of the imagination don't you think.

So the picture of the water with the hints could be anything from underwaterseamonkey to nebula. good luck :confused:
 
Do you think it's worth trying site mirroring software? If all the URLs are different, there has to be a different page for each one. That means if one were to use software such as WinHTTrack or something similar, the pages can be saved to a hard drive, and the URLs can be looked at. In this way, we can skip the impossible one that we are stuck on.
 
klem_johansen said:
I know for a fact that folks have been hitting their server with word lists of a quarter million words and found no luck.
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It seems likely that it's a two-word answer, then. Remember numberssecond?
 
Ok, mirroring the site to get the html files didn't work at all. If we don't hear from teh peoplez who made teh riddle, we might not ever get it.
 
Because seamonkeys once breathed air before it was renamed a million years ago. Before it was called air, it was called something else, and the semi sea monkeys breathed it. Then as they started to evolve into true seamonkeys, the surfed on the waves, until they kept drowning and so they evolved into underwaterseamonkeys. Hence the picture of water.
 
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Because seamonkeys once breathed air before it was renamed a million years ago. Before it was called air, it was called something else, and the semi sea monkeys breathed it. Then as they started to evolve into true seamonkeys, the surfed on the waves, until they kept drowning and so they evolved into underwaterseamonkeys. Hence the picture of water.
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That might be the answer- if you can only guess the random spelling he used.


unerwaterseamonkeys
underwaterseemonkees
underwahterseamonkeys
underwaterseamunkees
etc.
 
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