| Author | Message | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 1386 Registered: 5-2003 |
Why did they arrest the puzzler? | ||
| Alhucema (Alhucema)
New member Username: Alhucema Post Number: 984 Registered: 11-2008 |
The puzzler - someone who invented a puzzle? Played a prank? Was the puzzler H?A?M? Relevant? Was the puzzler actually arrested? If so, was the charge serious? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 1396 Registered: 5-2003 |
The puzzler - someone who invented a puzzle? This, for svv of invented. Played a prank? No. Was the puzzler H? Yes. A? Yes. M? Irr. Relevant? No. Was the puzzler actually arrested? Yes. If so, was the charge serious? Yes. | ||
| Markobr (Markobr)
New member Username: Markobr Post Number: 192 Registered: 5-2009 |
Is the relevant puzzle a lateral puzzle? If so: Posted on lateralpuzzles.com? Somewhere else? Simply told some people, like in the good old times? Did the puzzler actually commit a crime? Was the puzzler arrested by the police? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 1399 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is the relevant puzzle a lateral puzzle? No. If so: Posted on lateralpuzzles.com? Somewhere else? This. Simply told some people, like in the good old times? No. Did the puzzler actually commit a crime? No. Was the puzzler arrested by the police? No. | ||
| Markobr (Markobr)
New member Username: Markobr Post Number: 194 Registered: 5-2009 |
Is the puzzle posted on the WWW? In Usenet? IRC? Another online service? Or is it posted offline, e.g. on a wall? Is the puzzler the person who posted the puzzle? Someone trying to solve it? The admin of the website etc. where it is posted? Is the puzzler charged with a crime? Was the puzzler arrested by some military organization? By an intelligence service? Some other governmental institution? By a private person or organization? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 1402 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is the puzzle posted on the WWW? In Usenet? IRC? Another online service? None of the above. Or is it posted offline Yes., e.g. on a wall? But not this. Is the puzzler the person who posted the puzzle? This. Someone trying to solve it? No. The admin of the website etc. where it is posted? No. Is the puzzler charged with a crime? No. Was the puzzler arrested by some military organization? By an intelligence service? This. Some other governmental institution? By a private person or organization? None of the others. | ||
| Markobr (Markobr)
New member Username: Markobr Post Number: 199 Registered: 5-2009 |
Do those arresting the puzzler think the puzzler is a spy? Helping spies? Is a terrorist? Helping terrorists? Is a political activist against government interests? Helping such activists? Is planning a crime? Do they misunderstand something about the puzzler? About the puzzle? Is the puzzler interrogated? Searched? Fingerprinted and photographed? Is he released again after some time? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 1411 Registered: 5-2003 |
Do those arresting the puzzler think the puzzler is a spy? Yes. Helping spies? Yes. Is a terrorist? Helping terrorists? Is a political activist against government interests? Helping such activists? Is planning a crime? No to the others. Do they misunderstand something about the puzzler? Yes. About the puzzle? Yes. Is the puzzler interrogated? Yes. Searched? No. Fingerprinted and photographed? No. Is he released again after some time? Yes. | ||
| Alhucema (Alhucema)
New member Username: Alhucema Post Number: 991 Registered: 11-2008 |
Does the puzzle involve locating something? | ||
| Markobr (Markobr)
New member Username: Markobr Post Number: 202 Registered: 5-2009 |
Do they think the puzzle is in fact part of encoded communication between spies? Is the puzzle posted in a newspaper? A magazine? What is the amount of time between the arrest and the release of the puzzler? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? Months? Years? Is the puzzler in fact a spy? Helping spies? | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 1414 Registered: 5-2003 |
Do they think the puzzle is in fact part of encoded communication between spies? Yes. Is the puzzle posted in a newspaper? This. A magazine? What is the amount of time between the arrest and the release of the puzzler? Minutes? Hours? Days? Hours to days. Weeks? Months? Years? Is the puzzler in fact a spy? Helping spies? No to both. | ||
| Alhucema (Alhucema)
New member Username: Alhucema Post Number: 994 Registered: 11-2008 |
You forgot my question, please :-)) | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 1418 Registered: 5-2003 |
Does the puzzle involve locating something? Oops. No. | ||
| Markobr (Markobr)
New member Username: Markobr Post Number: 205 Registered: 5-2009 |
Is the puzzle part of the editorial content of the newspaper? Maybe a crossword puzzle? Or is it something sent in by a reader? An advertisment? A letter to the editor? Is the chain of events roughly the following: Someone working for an intelligence service sees the puzzle. He notices something about it which made him think it is/contains secret communications of a spy. The intelligence service finds out who posted the puzzle and arrests this person ("the puzzler"). The puzzler is interrogated and is soon able to give an explanation about the suspicious content that convinces the intelligence service the puzzler is probably no spy. So he is released again. | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 1425 Registered: 5-2003 |
Is the puzzle part of the editorial content of the newspaper? Maybe a crossword puzzle? This. Or is it something sent in by a reader? An advertisment? A letter to the editor? Is the chain of events roughly the following: Someone working for an intelligence service sees the puzzle. He notices something about it which made him think it is/contains secret communications of a spy. The intelligence service finds out who posted the puzzle and arrests this person ("the puzzler"). The puzzler is interrogated and is soon able to give an explanation about the suspicious content that convinces the intelligence service the puzzler is probably no spy. So he is released again. Got it. ******************* Spoiler ******************* Shortly before D-Day, several crossword puzzles in the London newspapers had suspicious clues. One puzzle used "Overlord," the term for the entire invasion of France. Another included "Utah," and "Sword," the codenames of two invasion beaches. The puzzlers were grilled by British intelligence, who found that the clues were coincidental, and also realized that there wasn't really any way for the Germans to tell what those words meant. |
