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November 26, 2006

Unhashing the Charades

I found this grid at the end of a book titled A Century of Charades, by William Bellamy. [The Riverside Press (1894), p106]:

key-to-answers

This key is not intended to divulge the answers, but to verify the correctness of a guess. Substitute for each letter of a supposed answer the figure standing over it in the table. If the number thus formed is one given in the key, your answer is correct.

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On the pages following the grid (p107-108) of this online PDF version, [2.7M] you'll find the key codes. It's fun to solve these directly without reading the puzzle charades that make up the previous 105 pages of the book. I'll just type in the first 10 of these, and you can check out the other 90 in the PDF (link above).

#1 — 3 3 1 3 1 4 5
#2 — 3 3 3 5 3 5
#3 — 1 1 3 3 3 1 4 5
#4 — 5 2 5 2 1 4 5
#5 — 4 4 1 1 4 5 3 5
#6 — 4 1 4 5 4 2 1 3 5
#7 — 1 1 3 3 5 3
#8 — 5 1 3 5 1 3
#9 — 3 1 3 2 2 5 3
#10 — 3 5 1 3 5 4

Added later: I've made it easier to get the rest of these addictive (OK, maybe addictive only to me) puzzles. Here are the first and second key pages.

Posted by tplambeck at 09:23 PM

pan


pan
Originally uploaded by thane.
This Cassini spacecraft view of Pan in the Encke gap shows hints of detail on the moon's dark side, which is lit by saturnshine -- sunlight reflected off Saturn.

Pan (26 kilometers, or 16 miles across) cruises the Encke gap (325 kilometers, or 200 miles wide) with several faint ringlets.

This view looks toward the lit side of the rings from about 52 degrees below the ringplane. The sunlit portion of Pan is partly overexposed.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 27, 2006 at a distance of approximately 385,000 kilometers (239,000 miles) from Pan and at a Sun-Pan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 86 degrees. Image scale is 2 kilometers (1 mile) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org .

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Posted by tplambeck at 05:15 PM

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