| Author | Message | ||
| Twilightseeker (Twilightseeker)
New member Username: Twilightseeker Post Number: 66 Registered: 2-2009 |
Correctly written, they help their members decide rules and solve conflicts. But switch those two, and it becomes an integer. What is it? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 867 Registered: 9-2009 |
"Those two" = two letters? Other pieces of writing? Integer = the word for a natural number? Positive number? Minister -> Minus ten? Switching = changing place? Altering? | ||
| Twilightseeker (Twilightseeker)
New member Username: Twilightseeker Post Number: 73 Registered: 2-2009 |
"Those two" = two letters? yes. Other pieces of writing? Integer = the word for a natural number? yes. Positive number? yes Minister -> Minus ten? no. Switching = changing place? this. Altering? | ||
| Yojimbo (Yojimbo)
New member Username: Yojimbo Post Number: 245 Registered: 11-2009 |
Roman numerals relevant? doctor (MD) becomes DM, or 500 (sort of; I would not have made a good Roman accountant...) | ||
| Twilightseeker (Twilightseeker)
New member Username: Twilightseeker Post Number: 76 Registered: 2-2009 |
Roman numerals relevant? Nope. doctor (MD) becomes DM, or 500 (sort of; I would not have made a good Roman accountant...) But I like this idea. :-) | ||
| Markobr (Markobr)
New member Username: Markobr Post Number: 556 Registered: 5-2009 |
Are we looking for a word (abbreviation?) denoting some kind of organisation(s)? And a word denoting a natural number? | ||
| Twilightseeker (Twilightseeker)
New member Username: Twilightseeker Post Number: 78 Registered: 2-2009 |
Are we looking for a word (abbreviation?) denoting some kind of organisation(s)? Yes. And a word denoting a natural number? yes. | ||
| Yojimbo (Yojimbo)
New member Username: Yojimbo Post Number: 251 Registered: 11-2009 |
does the word in question have two letters? more? does the relevant number have one digit? is the organization a professional association? a government body? a regulatory agency? | ||
| Kalira (Kalira)
New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 275 Registered: 2-2009 |
"Help their members decide rules...": Does members imply that only those people who are in the organization are affected by these rules? Or does the organization do these things more for its 'constituents' than its 'members'? Is the organization present under the acronym we're looking for in the U.S.? the U.K? other countries? Are there only 2 letters total in the organization's acronym? When the two letters are reversed, do they actually form a word that denotes the number? or are they a homonym for the number when they are read aloud? Random guess: Is the organization's acronym 'D.A.' (District Attorney? Department of the Army?)? and is the number eighty ("A D")? | ||
| Twilightseeker (Twilightseeker)
New member Username: Twilightseeker Post Number: 87 Registered: 2-2009 |
"Help their members decide rules...": Does members imply that only those people who are in the organization are affected by these rules? Others are affected as well by these rules. Or does the organization do these things more for its 'constituents' than its 'members'? No.... Is the organization present under the acronym we're looking for in the U.S.? No the U.K? no other countries? No Are there only 2 letters total in the organization's acronym? No. When the two letters are reversed, do they actually form a word that denotes the number? this, but there aren't just two letters. or are they a homonym for the number when they are read aloud? No Random guess: Is the organization's acronym 'D.A.' (District Attorney? Department of the Army?)? and is the number eighty ("A D")? no, but good guess. | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 880 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is the organization not present in any country? Or all over the world? In a place where "country" has less meaning? Such as on the internet? Or is it fictional? Or defunct? Is the integer a clear number word? (such as "seventeen") Or is it more cryptic? (such ad "A D" which sounds kind of like "eighty", as mentioned above) | ||
| Markobr (Markobr)
New member Username: Markobr Post Number: 566 Registered: 5-2009 |
Is the organization the World Trade Organization, abbreviated as "WTO"? And if you swap the first two letters you get "two"? | ||
| Twilightseeker (Twilightseeker)
New member Username: Twilightseeker Post Number: 90 Registered: 2-2009 |
Is the organization the World Trade Organization, abbreviated as "WTO"? And if you swap the first two letters you get "two"? Yep :]. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 586 Registered: 6-2008 |
And it's great that the word was actually in the statement. It reminds me of the old one, "Can you name an unusual seven-letter word that contains the letter "u" three times?" |
