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Googling for "Woman Holding Ferret" is more effective - it turns up the painting via a Terry Prachett reference (see also the Mona Ogg).

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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?

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It's hard to get more minimalistic than this.

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Hehe, I wonder what it is. I'm going to go out on a thin, wobbly limb, and say ?

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Perhaps it's...

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Doom wrote:
Perhaps it's...

Click here to view the secret text

×the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.

As far as I recall ...

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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.

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A wizard has turned you into a whale. Is this awesome (Y/N)?

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And another. This one's either ridiculously easy or kind of tough; I'm not really sure which.

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A wizard has turned you into a whale. Is this awesome (Y/N)?

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The first one was immediately obvious, and looks very much like this:

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):
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Hm, nobody's guessed mine. Is a clue in order?

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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?

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ClaytonW wrote:
Hm, nobody's guessed mine. Is a clue in order?

I got it without the clue (I think):



- Gerry

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ARGHHHHH! How did I not get that!

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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


Puzzle 2


Puzzle 3


Puzzle 4


Puzzle 5


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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 2 is 3 is

[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]

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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.

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