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Another:

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This should be easy:



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I got Chris' first puzzle. It is...

Chris' second puzzle has me stumped. I'm doubtful that the image is something I'm very familiar with. I have to hand it to Google image search, that when I asked for "Girl holding ferret" that's exactly what I got.

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You're probably right there. I wasn't familiar with the image either. I asked my girlfriend to name a famous image, and this is the one she came up with. It was all over the Czech press last week because the Prime Minister's wife was photographed emulating the pose.

You might find that googling for some of the text in the image proves more fruitful.

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I thought a little about the limitations of using well-known pictures. Even if the solver is familiar with the original picture, the solver may wonder, after having some trouble, if the puzzle is solvable with his knowledge and memories.

Here is a puzzle where there is no original picture for you to remember. The question you must answer after examining the picture is: Of what is the woman afraid?

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Chris, your answer is reasonable, but incorrect. Taking into account all of the elements in the picture should suggest something else.

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Your second answer is very close, but not quite it.

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Yeah, Agaricus got it.

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Oh, wait, Agaricus' answer isn't right after all.



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Aw, but it's ambiguous. Drat.



I suppose I should aim for less ambiguity.

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I suppose I should aim for less ambiguity.

Are you being flawlessly consistent again, Erik?

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In reply to Chris' explanation of his answer:


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Erik, this is a fun kind of puzzle that I've never seen the like of before. Kudos!

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Thanks, Mike! The puzzle seems a moderate success, and I myself enjoyed solving other people's, so I will move on to Stage Two of my plan.

Mike and I have been invited to a private conference in March. I think it's probably in bad taste to say which one, since it is invitation-only. But I'll be happy to give a recap of this very cool event after it's over. If anyone has some idea what event I'm talking about, please don't guess or blurt it out. You can e-mail me about it if you have something to say.

One requirement of the conference is to bring a gift for each of the attendees. I'm now planning to create a small booklet of these puzzles and hand out copies of it. I think I get to call myself the inventor and come up with a new name for them, but I don't want to look like a big dummy if somebody else already had the same idea as me back in 1722 or whatever. So a few questions...

I ask this in the most humble way possible: Has anybody seen a puzzle like or similar to mine? I noted Oneiromancer's reference to the language equations, but that seemed pretty different.

What would be a good name for this type of puzzle? I thought "Composition Puzzles", but it sounds pretty dry. Anybody have a good idea?

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Your puzzle reminded me of the filmwise "invisibles" puzzles, for example this one, where they show an image (from a movie) with the actors removed.

It's not the same as your puzzle, but it has similarities I think.

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Chris wrote:
Your puzzle reminded me of the filmwise "invisibles" puzzles,

Ah, yeah. Those are cool. I played some on the Scene-It DVD.

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I'd call this type of puzzle Abstract Art

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I like Abstract Art as a title.

I'm not entirely clear on why you can't say the name of the convention - is it a secret convention? Or do you just not want people to get jealous? If it's the former - well, that's just weird - but if it's the latter I don't think you need to be concerned. After all, you and Mike clearly earned your way to the convention by creating DROD. Nothing wrong with that, quite the opposite.

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eytanz wrote:
I'm not entirely clear on why you can't say the name of the convention

It probably doesn't matter at all, but I'll still keep it to myself in case it does.

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What do you think about "Abstracted Art"? In this way it doesn't get confused with the existing term for a style of artwork and suggests that a translation has been performed.

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Abstracted Art is good. I like that a lot.

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Okay, I'll go with "abstracted art". I feel like I've been a little pretentious about the whole thing, but if it's a new thing, then it must be named!

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I'm just disappointed that nobody has guessed the name of the picture of the lady holding the ermine yet.

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I'm just disappointed that nobody has guessed the name of the picture of the lady holding the ermine yet.

Crud, man. I gave up. It just didn't ring any bells for me.

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Chris wrote:
I'm just disappointed that nobody has guessed the name of the picture of the lady holding the ermine yet.

Oh, I thought we'd got that one. Leonardo da Vinci, untitled but popularly known as Lady with an Ermine.
Erik, when a google image search for "girl holding a ferret" doesn't work, you may want to try "chick wrestling a stoat" or similar.