Timeline for A Trivial Pursuit #21 (History 4/4): Expedition
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| Oct 20, 2023 at 9:41 | comment | added | Stiv | Haha, I think I read your explanation with a sense of gobsmacked awe that you'd managed to decipher it in a way I had completely unintended! I had to try to make this one as concrete as possible so that this precise word would be extracted, as (of course) it's needed for the meta at the end of the series, and is probably one of the most obscure words on the list... I'm not a big fan of scutwork (with the exception that I do love a pub quiz, so this themed series does involve some puzzles that begin with a set of trivia questions to be answered) so I do try and put in safety ropes for solvers! | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 19:57 | history | edited | msh210 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 2 characters in body
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| Oct 19, 2023 at 19:56 | comment | added | M Oehm | (But to my defence, there was a time when reverse-engineering unspaced stretches of often misencoded Morse singals was all the rage. This question for example had a good premise, but the author misjudged how hard decoding unspaced Morse is.) | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 19:54 | comment | added | M Oehm | Thanks to you. This is such a well crafted puzzle with several aha moments on the way, I don't know what you thought when I flaunted my reverse-morsing skills when I really should have known better. I feel adequately silly now. | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 19:27 | vote | accept | Stiv | ||
| Oct 19, 2023 at 19:27 | comment | added | Stiv | All good now! Checkmark awarded. Thanks for seeing it through. | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 18:55 | history | edited | M Oehm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Binned my abundant waffling.
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| Oct 19, 2023 at 18:48 | comment | added | M Oehm | You know how it is: Once you have a hammer ... Plus, I'm obviously not very good at spotting subtle hints. Or rhetorical questions, for that matter. | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 18:33 | comment | added | Stiv | Oh wow, your method for finding the splits is much more complex than required! There's a built-in method in the ordered answer list that should already show you where the divisions are...! | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 17:08 | history | edited | M Oehm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Waffled a bit about how I find splits in Morse code that's all run together.
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| Oct 19, 2023 at 15:44 | comment | added | M Oehm |
Ha, such subtle hints are above my head. :) Will expand the answer to answer @LeppyR64's question.
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| Oct 19, 2023 at 15:25 | comment | added | Stiv | This is the correct answer though, so well done for persevering! Also, the locations do have a purpose rather than just being a red herring - the first blockquote in this answer of Deusovi's links to some advice on an external blogpost suggesting that if something is already ordered then it probably needs to be reordered :) It was intended as a hint towards that. | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 15:14 | comment | added | Stiv | @LeppyR64 Good question, which I'd ideally like to see mentioned in the answer :) | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 14:52 | comment | added | LeppyR64 | How did you determine the splits between the characters? | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 12:14 | history | answered | M Oehm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |