One quiz at a time

[PhilW]

You poured the port over your pudding?

[jdaw1]

You poured the port over your pudding?

Not your turn.

[PopulusTremula]

You heated it up?

No. Well, some went in the bolognaise, but that also happens often enough.

The origin of the thing was, I suppose, laziness.

You drank it through a straw directly from the bottle as you had no clean glasses or other vessels at hand.


Sent from my GT-I9195 using Tapatalk 2

[PhilW]

You poured the port over your pudding?

[jdaw1]

No and no.

Clue: they were half bottles.

[LGTrotter]

I can only guess you mixed two halves together?

[PhilW]

or perhaps more specifically, decanted two bottles into a single decanter?

[Glenn E.]

Created your own Crusted cuvee by blending two halves from different years?

[jdaw1]

I can only guess you mixed two halves together?

Correct, but borderline incomplete.

or perhaps more specifically, decanted two bottles into a single decanter?

Fuller, better, but later.

First of you two to post the next question is the Question Master.


Mrs W wanted some port for cooking. The remainder of a half of Croft LBV 2004 went into a decanter. It looked just so small and pathetic that another was added as a top-up. Very rarely do I mix bottles. On this occasion, it seems that no harm was done.

[PhilW]

I have a question, and will post it in 15mins if LGTrotter does not post a question prior to that.

[PhilW]

New question:

A mathematical port fanatic keeps his port in a (temperature and humidity controlled) safe, the key to which is an electronic 6-digit PIN. As he cannot reliably remember this PIN, he has worked out that with each letter representing a different number, he can add three port houses with the total being a fourth, this total being a six digit number. Unfortunately, he has forgotten one of the port houses. He remembers this:

Code: Select all

   CALEM
   ?????
+ OFFLEY
  ------
= TAYLOR

Determine the missing port name and the sum and hence identify the PIN to the safe to allow access to the port!

[LGTrotter]

Eleven?

[djewesbury]

If he knows the total, does it matter? He must remember what each letter stands for and therefore if the result is TAYLOR he knows the combination.

My go.

[LGTrotter]

Twelve?

[PhilW]

Eleven?

Twelve?

Are these six digit numbers? No, I thought not!

If he knows the total, does it matter? He must remember what each letter stands for and therefore if the result is TAYLOR he knows the combination.

My go.

No. He cannot remember what numbers the letters stand for, however he used to be able to remember the names of the four port houses, and so could then easily solve the puzzle to get the PIN.

It's not as hard as it may seem to make progress. A clue at lunchtime tomorrow if needed.

[djewesbury]

Graham 123456

[Glenn E.]

A mathematical port fanatic

jdaw1 is going to be upset that you're teaching us how to break into his wine cellar.

[djewesbury]

Every so often I wish Derek was drunk.

[Glenn E.]

Well my brain isn't functioning at its best, so the only progress I can make is that none of {C,O,T} represents 0.

Also, the set of letters (assuming base 10) is {A,C,E,F,L,M,O,R,T,Y}.

There. I got you started!

Wait... I will make a guess. CROFT?

[Glenn E.]

Also, T>O.

[PhilW]

Good progress by Glenn; I wil confirm that base 10 is a correct assumption.

[jdaw1]

Cryptographic nonsense. Attack codes at their weakest point. In this example, deducing the code is more work, and less reliable work, than guessing each possible answer. There aren’t many:

1. Adams
2. Avery
3. Cálem
4. Cedro
5. Croft
6. Dalva
7. Dixon
8. Feist
9. Judeu
10. Kopke
11. Krohn
12. Noval
13. Poças
14. Roriz
15. Rozès
16. Sibio
17. Souza
18. Warre

And some are more likely than others.

Krohn?

[djewesbury]

Warre?

[djewesbury]

Once JDAW has guessed Noval I will guess Dalva. Perhaps he'll then guess Souza?

[djewesbury]

At which point I'll guess Croft and he'll guess Kopke.
That should do for a while.