[Guest]

Step 1: Figure out what the clues mean individually.

Step 2: Figure out what they have in common (bonus points if you go beyond the superficial answer)

Step 3: Fill in the remaining piece of information for each clue that will become obvious after step 2.

OK GO!

1) Born of obscurity, he’s all grown up now.

2) Game piece representing a particular political affiliation.

3) Non-Sovereign boys of the sampled aggregate.

4) A very short time, somewhere between an instant and a jiffy.

5) Turdus migratorius’ father’s daughter-in-law.

6) An immature nipper operating chaotically.

7) Find an understandable meaning from seemingly random gibberish. (What you are trying to do with this puzzle!)

8) There is a question of initial constitution between one and the other.

9) A step-by-step manual for creating Redgrave’s Bagatelle.

10) Keen on an alternative to Asian culture’s current exposure and influence.

Edited November 15, 2008 by Grayven

[Shakeepuddn]

Baby Shambles

[Guest]

Twin Pop, keep going on #7, you'll get there eventually. As for the rest since my last post, no dice.

[Guest]

Interpret?

Solve?

[Guest]

Susan Sarandon?

Let me explain before laughter ensues ...I was thinking about the feedback, and I was thinking taht the punctuation had to do with Robins'...so I got to thinking Robbins'...which led me to Tim Robbins...which led me to his partner Susan Sarandon. Like i said, I know i'm WAY off...but sometimes I like to share my thought process just in case it'll be helpful to someone else! haha

[Guest]

Susan Sarandon?

Let me explain before laughter ensues ...I was thinking about the feedback, and I was thinking taht the punctuation had to do with Robins'...so I got to thinking Robbins'...which led me to Tim Robbins...which led me to his partner Susan Sarandon. Like i said, I know i'm WAY off...but sometimes I like to share my thought process just in case it'll be helpful to someone else! haha

It's always interesting when someone takes a puzzle in unintended directions. Good job.

It's a bit too early for an outright hint so...

The 3 most important things to remember about real estate also apply to punctuation.

"decipher" would be my choice for the closest thus far. Keep trying!

edited for clarity.. and to explain edit.

Edited November 17, 2008 by Grayven

[Guest]

It's always interesting when someone takes a puzzle in unintended directions. Good job.

It's a bit too early for an outright hint so...

The 3 most important things to remember about real estate also apply to punctuation.

"decipher" would be my choice for the closest thus far. Keep trying!

edited for clarity.. and to explain edit.

perhaps...

Sage

crack

Edited November 17, 2008 by Twin Pop

[Guest]

Tail (from pin the tail on the donkey)

second

Nationalism

[Guest]

Putting my other thought processes concerning the numbers i've been tackling so far, I have an idea for number 6...

i was looking at no.6 when i picked up on your wording, most importantly the word 'operating'. before noticing this i simply though a mischievous child, but i surfed the web (what a tacky phrase lol!) and found that a nipper is a short rope used to bind cable, used in the Navy and angling.

on the right track Grayven??

Seriously, this riddle is soooo hard but i'm addicted to it!!! i must sound like some geeky riddle druggy but whatever !

[Guest]

Putting my other thought processes concerning the numbers i've been tackling so far, I have an idea for number 6...

i was looking at no.6 when i picked up on your wording, most importantly the word 'operating'. before noticing this i simply though a mischievous child, but i surfed the web (what a tacky phrase lol!) and found that a nipper is a short rope used to bind cable, used in the Navy and angling.

on the right track Grayven??

Seriously, this riddle is soooo hard but i'm addicted to it!!! i must sound like some geeky riddle druggy but whatever !

Child is correct, michievous is close.

[Guest]

Child is correct, michievous is close.

unruly child

[Guest]

unruly child

Synonymize! This is one that I think won't get solved completely until a few others are. We'll see.

[Guest]

This is what we know so far...

Step 1: Figure out what the clues mean individually.

Step 2: Figure out what they have in common (bonus points if you go beyond the superficial answer)

Step 3: Fill in the remaining piece of information for each clue that will become obvious after step 2.

OK GO!

1) Born of obscurity, he’s all grown up now. Nowhere Man - shakeepuddn

2) Game piece representing a particular political affiliation.

3) Non-Sovereign boys of the sampled aggregate.

4) A very short time, somewhere between an instant and a jiffy.

5) Turdus migratorius’ father’s daughter-in-law. Robin (partial)

6) An immature nipper operating chaotically. Child (partial)

7) Find an understandable meaning from seemingly random gibberish. (What you are trying to do with this puzzle!)

8) There is a question of initial constitution between one and the other.

9) A step-by-step manual for creating Redgrave’s Bagatelle. Pinball (partial)

10) Keen on an alternative to Asian culture’s current exposure and influence.

Edited November 18, 2008 by Grayven

[Guest]

Boy I suck at this! Oh well, at least I'm having fun!

Mrs. Robinson

wild child

[Guest]

if these are song titles?

If so, perhaps #9 is Pinball wizard?

[Guest]

Going off of what someone said about song titles....could it be A Milli, as in a millisecond, or A Milli the song by Lil Wayne??? I am probably way off

[Guest]

This is what we know so far...

legend:

Blue - correct so far

Red - still needs work.

Step 1: Figure out what the clues mean individually.

Step 2: Figure out what they have in common Song titles - Twin pop (bonus points if you go beyond the superficial answer)

Step 3: Fill in the remaining piece of information for each clue that will become obvious after step 2.

OK GO!

1) Born of obscurity, he’s all grown up now. Nowhere Man - shakeepuddn

2) Game piece representing a particular political affiliation.

3) Non-Sovereign boys of the sampled aggregate.

4) A very short time, somewhere between an instant and a jiffy.

5) Turdus migratorius’ father’s daughter-in-law. Mrs. Robinson - Andromeda/Twinpop

6) An immature nipper operating chaotically. Wild Child (partial)

7) Find an understandable meaning from seemingly random gibberish. (What you are trying to do with this puzzle!)

8) There is a question of initial constitution between one and the other.

9) A step-by-step manual for creating Redgrave’s Bagatelle. Pinball Wizard - Rush/Twinpop

10) Keen on an alternative to Asian culture’s current exposure and influence.

Well done Twin Pop! That should hopefully open the floodgates and maybe get some more people interested in helping out, as well.

edit: fixed colors

Edited November 19, 2008 by Grayven

[Guest]

Now that the running theme has been figured out, I think I can do slightly better perhaps!

Twas fun narrowing down though.

"King Piece in the Chess Game" by Slick Rick...or "Chess Piece Face" by They Might Be Giants?

"Real Wild Child"

I'm pretty sure you said decipher was the closest one to someone else, so...

analyze, break, break down, bring out, cipher, construe, crack, decode, deduce, disentangle, dope out, elucidate, encipher, explain, expound, find the key, interpret, make clear, make out, puzzle out, read, render, reveal, solve, spell, translate, unfold, unravel, unriddle...any of them?

Could it be different titles applied to humans? Hear me out lol...So far be have Nowhere Man, (Real?) Wild Child, Mrs. Robinson and Pinball Wizard. So far, I can only further link these titles as they are all different sub-categories of humans, not that wizards are real...or are they lol? And if King Piece in the Chess Game is right, well that supports my idea!

Rushofblood do good?

[Guest]

Now that the running theme has been figured out, I think I can do slightly better perhaps!

Twas fun narrowing down though.

"King Piece in the Chess Game" by Slick Rick...or "Chess Piece Face" by They Might Be Giants?

"Real Wild Child"

I'm pretty sure you said decipher was the closest one to someone else, so...

analyze, break, break down, bring out, cipher, construe, crack, decode, deduce, disentangle, dope out, elucidate, encipher, explain, expound, find the key, interpret, make clear, make out, puzzle out, read, render, reveal, solve, spell, translate, unfold, unravel, unriddle...any of them?

Could it be different titles applied to humans? Hear me out lol...So far be have Nowhere Man, (Real?) Wild Child, Mrs. Robinson and Pinball Wizard. So far, I can only further link these titles as they are all different sub-categories of humans, not that wizards are real...or are they lol? And if King Piece in the Chess Game is right, well that supports my idea!

Rushofblood do good?

Wow! What zeal! What fervor!! Where to begin?!

Ok, we'll start...

Warning! Huge hint inside!

Spoiler for Cuidado!:

What do the songs have in common?

now we'll go down the list:

2) nope

6) nope

7) yes, it's in there! ohhhh, suspense!

[Guest]

I'll start with Step 2 for now:

i've looked for links between the songs, but i don't know whether to think laterally or go deep.

laterally thinking, the songs were all released in the mid to late 60s ('66, 68, 69).

Then I delved a bit deeper. In Nowhere Man and Pinball Wizard, they both mention blindness.

Nowhere Man: "He's as blind as he can be,

Just sees what he wants to see,

Nowhere Man can you see me at all?"

Pinball Wizard: "That deaf, dumb and blind kid

Sure plays a mean pinball."

In Mrs. Robinson, the only link along these lines is "Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes" and "Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you."

I'm probably wrong, I'll think some more..as for the other sub-riddles, I'll tackle them in a bit! You must admire my integrity, yet pity my lack of logic! <_< lol

[Guest]

I'll start with Step 2 for now:

i've looked for links between the songs, but i don't know whether to think laterally or go deep.

laterally thinking, the songs were all released in the mid to late 60s ('66, 68, 69).

Then I delved a bit deeper. In Nowhere Man and Pinball Wizard, they both mention blindness.

Nowhere Man: "He's as blind as he can be,

Just sees what he wants to see,

Nowhere Man can you see me at all?"

Pinball Wizard: "That deaf, dumb and blind kid

Sure plays a mean pinball."

In Mrs. Robinson, the only link along these lines is "Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes" and "Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you."

I'm probably wrong, I'll think some more..as for the other sub-riddles, I'll tackle them in a bit! You must admire my integrity, yet pity my lack of logic! <_< lol

[Guest]

I wonder if they aren't all songs from movies?

[Guest]

I'll start with Step 2 for now:

i've looked for links between the songs, but i don't know whether to think laterally or go deep.

laterally thinking, the songs were all released in the mid to late 60s ('66, 68, 69).

Then I delved a bit deeper. In Nowhere Man and Pinball Wizard, they both mention blindness.

Nowhere Man: "He's as blind as he can be,

Just sees what he wants to see,

Nowhere Man can you see me at all?"

Pinball Wizard: "That deaf, dumb and blind kid

Sure plays a mean pinball."

In Mrs. Robinson, the only link along these lines is "Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes" and "Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you."

I'm probably wrong, I'll think some more..as for the other sub-riddles, I'll tackle them in a bit! You must admire my determination, yet pity my lack of logic! <_< lol

Edited November 19, 2008 by -rushofblood-

[Guest]

Perhaps...

Ordinary Average Guy

Perhaps...

Back in the USSR

Only in America

[Guest]

I wonder if they aren't all songs from movies?

Wonder no longer! They are.

[Guest]

Runaway Child, Running Wild?

- by the Temptations