The Name Game
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The Name Game
Here is another puzzle taken from a PerplexCity card:
It had been a long day, so I decided to play a game with some of my Science students, assigning each of their names a value based on a secret rule. I had just told Catherine that her name had two different values, 223 and... when Sente stopped by to ask for my help with a phase adjustment on the Earth-Perplex City link.
As I left, I called back "You'll have to figure out what Catherine's other value out was by yourselves"
FRANKLIN = 133
BARBARA = 167
LAUREN = 231
LAURA = 237
TIMOTHY = 193
GEOFFREY = 172
It had been a long day, so I decided to play a game with some of my Science students, assigning each of their names a value based on a secret rule. I had just told Catherine that her name had two different values, 223 and... when Sente stopped by to ask for my help with a phase adjustment on the Earth-Perplex City link.
As I left, I called back "You'll have to figure out what Catherine's other value out was by yourselves"
FRANKLIN = 133
BARBARA = 167
LAUREN = 231
LAURA = 237
TIMOTHY = 193
GEOFFREY = 172
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Re: The Name Game
What would be my name's value?
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Don't tell him. He needs to work it out from the values given. Trying to cheat are we, Jason?Jason Larsen wrote:What would be my name's value?
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Don't worry Kirk, I will not be working out names that aren't mentioned aboveKirk Bevins wrote:Don't tell him. He needs to work it out from the values given. Trying to cheat are we, Jason?Jason Larsen wrote:What would be my name's value?
Also Kirk, I don't think that Jason posted this question, with the intention of actually solving this puzzle.
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You're right, Joseph!
I just wanted to show my curiosity!
I just wanted to show my curiosity!
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If you can wait until the puzzle is solved, then by all means, I can reveal what your number would be. In the meantime though, do try to solve it and you may get it right.Jason Larsen wrote:You're right, Joseph!
I just wanted to show my curiosity!
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Absolutely, Joseph!
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241. I wont reveal my method for anyone still trying to work it out but I was probably the most likely person to get it! I dont think Jason can be a number, nor can anyone with a J in their name for that matter.
Cheers for this puzzle Joseph. I enjoyed it
Cheers for this puzzle Joseph. I enjoyed it
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Hmm - a J - so I thought it could be something to do with enclosed loops, such as in B or R, or even lines of symmetry or even straight edges. I guess I'm not even close though.Dinos Sfyris wrote:241. I wont reveal my method for anyone still trying to work it out but I was probably the most likely person to get it! I dont think Jason can be a number, nor can anyone with a J in their name for that matter.
Cheers for this puzzle Joseph. I enjoyed it
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Well done Dinos, 241 is correctDinos Sfyris wrote:241. I wont reveal my method for anyone still trying to work it out but I was probably the most likely person to get it! I dont think Jason can be a number, nor can anyone with a J in their name for that matter.
Cheers for this puzzle Joseph. I enjoyed it
it's a nice little puzzle, isn't it
Sorry Kirk you are not on the right linesKirk Bevins wrote:Hmm - a J - so I thought it could be something to do with enclosed loops, such as in B or R, or even lines of symmetry or even straight edges. I guess I'm not even close though.
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There is a clue in how Joseph has dressed up the puzzle at the beginning.
Kirk you would be 115 btw.
Kirk you would be 115 btw.
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I don't have a number But if I did it would probably be more than 28.
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Just to add to this, BEVINS also works for this puzzle and could be either 92 or 103Dinos Sfyris wrote:There is a clue in how Joseph has dressed up the puzzle at the beginning.
Kirk you would be 115 btw.
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Ah, I get it now! I'll go and have a sulk because I'm not allowed a number.
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This is doing my head it - how can it have two values?Joseph Bolas wrote:Just to add to this, BEVINS also works for this puzzle and could be either 92 or 103Dinos Sfyris wrote:There is a clue in how Joseph has dressed up the puzzle at the beginning.
Kirk you would be 115 btw.
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The same reason that Catherine has 2 numbersKirk Bevins wrote:This is doing my head it - how can it have two values?Joseph Bolas wrote:BEVINS also works for this puzzle and can be either 92 or 103
This should help you solve the puzzleDinos Sfyris wrote:There is a clue in how Joseph has dressed up the puzzle at the beginning.
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Science - is it like their chemical numbers added together and why should BEVINS have two values? Well you could take B for Boron or Be for beryllium. Am I close?
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That's pretty much it, yes. You can split some names up in various ways, and some (like mine) don't work at all.Kirk Bevins wrote:Science - is it like their chemical numbers added together and why should BEVINS have two values? Well you could take B for Boron or Be for beryllium. Am I close?
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It's a nice puzzle, but Dinos sucks:
edit: actually that's not entirely fair (don't read replies to a puzzle thread if you don't want spoilers) but it was still quite lol to say "I'm not going to say how I did but here's a massive clue"
Completely gave it awayDinos Sfyris wrote:I wont reveal my method for anyone still trying to work it out but I was probably the most likely person to get it!
edit: actually that's not entirely fair (don't read replies to a puzzle thread if you don't want spoilers) but it was still quite lol to say "I'm not going to say how I did but here's a massive clue"
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Well done Kirk . It involves splitting up the names into groups of 1 or 2 letters, matching the chemical element symbols and then adding the numbers together .Kirk Bevins wrote:Science - is it like their chemical numbers added together and why should BEVINS have two values? Well you could take B for Boron or Be for beryllium. Am I close?
You can split up BEVINS like so:
BE - Beryllium = 4
V - Vanadium = 23
IN - Indium = 49
S - Sulphur = 16
Total = 92
BE - Beryllium = 4
V - Vanadium = 23
I - Iodine = 53
N - Nitrogen = 7
S - Sulphur = 16
Total = 103
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Very neat. I was nowhere near.
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Nice one! On a similar subject, a magazine which was either "Education in Chemistry" or "Journal of Chemical Education" had an interesting game where you made as many words as possible (of four letters or more) from the symbols of the elements. The person who wrote the item said he'd got up to about 1450 different words.....
I spent a while doing it then got bored, however I did manage a 16-letter word and a 100 or so shorter ones. I will return to it..... I did it in a table in "word" so I don't get too confused about which ones I've got.
There are now 111 elements that have been named and if you search for "webelements" on Google you will find an up to date periodic table, unless of course you are lazy fluorine, uranium, carbon, potassium, erbium, sulfur!
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I spent a while doing it then got bored, however I did manage a 16-letter word and a 100 or so shorter ones. I will return to it..... I did it in a table in "word" so I don't get too confused about which ones I've got.
There are now 111 elements that have been named and if you search for "webelements" on Google you will find an up to date periodic table, unless of course you are lazy fluorine, uranium, carbon, potassium, erbium, sulfur!
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What??? American spellings?!? Grr...Kevin Thurlow wrote:, unless of course you are lazy fluorine, uranium, carbon, potassium, erbium, sulfur!
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Sulfur is the technical spelling too, and Kevin is nothing if not technical. See also FOETUS.Kirk Bevins wrote:What??? American spellings?!? Grr...
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He's also technically a foetus?