Announcement: Be excellent to each other.


Caravel Forum : Other Boards : Forum Games : Guess what pictures these are. ("Abstracted Art" puzzles I came up with.)
12
Page 3 of 3
New Topic New Poll Post Reply
Poster Message
Chris
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 144
Registered: 08-12-2005
IP: Logged
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (0)  
Googling for "Woman Holding Ferret" is more effective - it turns up the painting via a Terry Prachett reference (see also the Mona Ogg).
02-23-2006 at 01:52 PM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts Quote Reply
ClaytonW
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 961
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

File: cwpuzz.GIF (14.7 KB)
Downloaded 1278 times.
License: Public Domain
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (+1)  
Alright, here's my stab at making one. I apologize for the image dimensions, but I made it in kind of a hurry, plus the image dimensions are relevant to what this image appears on. Erik, why not take more of a crossword-clue approach to the descriptions, like this?



[Last edited by ClaytonW at 03-11-2006 04:37 PM]
03-11-2006 at 04:34 PM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts This architect's holds Quote Reply
Krishh
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 282
Registered: 06-05-2004
IP: Logged

File: Krishhmin.JPG (2.2 KB)
Downloaded 116 times.
License: Public Domain
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (+1)  
It's hard to get more minimalistic than this.
03-12-2006 at 11:48 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Show all user's posts This architect's holds Quote Reply
Ezlo
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 1224
Registered: 01-08-2006
IP: Logged
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (0)  
Hehe, I wonder what it is. I'm going to go out on a thin, wobbly limb, and say
Click here to view the secret text
?

[Last edited by ErikH2000 at 03-17-2006 03:25 PM : Added secret tag.]
03-12-2006 at 11:51 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts This architect's holds Quote Reply
Doom
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 3276
Registered: 07-05-2004
IP: Logged
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (0)  
Perhaps it's...
Click here to view the secret text

03-12-2006 at 12:10 PM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts High Scores This architect's holds Quote Reply
Znirk
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 613
Registered: 07-28-2005
IP: Logged
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (+1)  
Doom wrote:
Perhaps it's...
Click here to view the secret text
As far as I recall ...
Click here to view the secret text

03-12-2006 at 11:59 PM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts Quote Reply
Enigmatologist
Level: Goblin
Rank Points: 21
Registered: 12-26-2005
IP: Logged

File: sample.GIF (4.4 KB)
Downloaded 100 times.
License: Public Domain
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (+1)  
Whee! This is the most entertaining puzzle idea I've seen in a while.

Here's one of my own, inspired by a previous one in the thread.

____________________________
A wizard has turned you into a whale. Is this awesome (Y/N)?
03-16-2006 at 02:48 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Show all user's posts Quote Reply
Enigmatologist
Level: Goblin
Rank Points: 21
Registered: 12-26-2005
IP: Logged

File: another.GIF (2.3 KB)
Downloaded 107 times.
License: Public Domain
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (+1)  
And another. This one's either ridiculously easy or kind of tough; I'm not really sure which.

____________________________
A wizard has turned you into a whale. Is this awesome (Y/N)?
03-16-2006 at 03:31 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Show all user's posts Quote Reply
Chris
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 144
Registered: 08-12-2005
IP: Logged
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (0)  
The first one was immediately obvious, and looks very much like this:
Click here to view the secret text

and the second one had me completely stumped for 30 seconds, but then came to me in a flash (which is, I think, how these puzzles often work):
Click here to view the secret text
.

03-16-2006 at 07:54 AM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts Quote Reply
ClaytonW
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 961
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (0)  
Hm, nobody's guessed mine. Is a clue in order?

Click here to view the secret text

03-16-2006 at 11:55 PM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts This architect's holds Quote Reply
ErikH2000
Level: Legendary Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 2794
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (0)  
ClaytonW wrote:
Erik, why not take more of a crossword-clue approach to the descriptions, like this?
Sometimes, I have a hard time writing words inside of squares. I like to be able to have very small squares with long descriptions if needed. And other times it's possible to have all labels inside of squares, but I'm trying to be consistent across puzzles.

Sounds like I'm taking it all too seriously, eh?

-Erik

____________________________
The Godkiller - Chapter 1 available now on Steam. It's a DROD-like puzzle adventure game.
dev journals | twitch stream | youtube archive (NSFW)
03-17-2006 at 03:27 PM
View Profile Send Email to User Show all user's posts This architect's holds Quote Reply
trick
Level: Legendary Smitemaster
Rank Points: 2580
Registered: 04-12-2003
IP: Logged
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (+1)  
ClaytonW wrote:
Hm, nobody's guessed mine. Is a clue in order?
I got it without the clue (I think):

Click here to view the secret text


- Gerry
03-18-2006 at 10:19 PM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts Quote Reply
Ezlo
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 1224
Registered: 01-08-2006
IP: Logged
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (0)  
ARGHHHHH! How did I not get that! :doh
03-18-2006 at 10:36 PM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts This architect's holds Quote Reply
ErikH2000
Level: Legendary Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 2794
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (+1)  
Here are five puzzles from the Little Book of Abstracted Art, a gift booklet I passed out at the Gathering for Gardner conference. I took a little more time on these and they're of higher quality. All puzzles depict famous paintings.

-Erik

Puzzle 1
Click here to view the secret text


Puzzle 2
Click here to view the secret text


Puzzle 3
Click here to view the secret text


Puzzle 4
Click here to view the secret text


Puzzle 5
Click here to view the secret text


____________________________
The Godkiller - Chapter 1 available now on Steam. It's a DROD-like puzzle adventure game.
dev journals | twitch stream | youtube archive (NSFW)

[Last edited by ErikH2000 at 03-26-2006 09:58 PM]
03-26-2006 at 09:57 PM
View Profile Send Email to User Show all user's posts This architect's holds Quote Reply
Znirk
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 613
Registered: 07-28-2005
IP: Logged
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (+1)  
Heh. I recognized the first two almost immediately, and the third after some head-scratching. The last two don't mean anything to me ... as far as I can tell at the moment.

1 is
Click here to view the secret text
2 is
Click here to view the secret text
3 is
Click here to view the secret text


[edit]Now that I've looked at the hints-and-solutions, here's my explanations for why 4 and 5 were more difficult for me: in the case of 4, the main problem was that I've never come across the original. 5 I had seen, but apart from the more "crosswordy" style of descriptions I think it's also a factor that the picture isn't very memorable.[/edit]

[Last edited by Znirk at 03-26-2006 11:34 PM]
03-26-2006 at 10:19 PM
View Profile Send Private Message to User Send Email to User Show all user's posts Quote Reply
ErikH2000
Level: Legendary Smitemaster
Avatar
Rank Points: 2794
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged
icon Re: Guess what pictures these are. (0)  
Znirk wrote:
Heh. I recognized the first two almost immediately, and the third after some head-scratching. The last two don't mean anything to me ... as far as I can tell at the moment.
Cool, that's consistent with my intended difficulty. They are supposed to go from easy to hard. There are some progressive hints for the puzzles over here.

-Erik

____________________________
The Godkiller - Chapter 1 available now on Steam. It's a DROD-like puzzle adventure game.
dev journals | twitch stream | youtube archive (NSFW)
03-26-2006 at 11:02 PM
View Profile Send Email to User Show all user's posts This architect's holds Quote Reply
12
Page 3 of 3
New Topic New Poll Post Reply
Caravel Forum : Other Boards : Forum Games : Guess what pictures these are. ("Abstracted Art" puzzles I came up with.)
Surf To:


Forum Rules:
Can I post a new topic? No
Can I reply? No
Can I read? Yes
HTML Enabled? No
UBBC Enabled? Yes
Words Filter Enable? No

Contact Us | CaravelGames.com

Powered by: tForum tForumHacks Edition b0.98.8
Originally created by Toan Huynh (Copyright © 2000)
Enhanced by the tForumHacks team and the Caravel team.