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Old 15-08-2020, 06:43 AM #1
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...okay, so if I use the keypad..?..I can get Sphinx...(...the ph threw me a little for a while, my thoughts weren’t of an ‘Sph word...)...and it could be a sphinx ring...but I can’t get the 626...the only thing I can see on the keyboard atm is ‘man’....


...and all I can see with the riddle of the Sphinx is...

Which creature walks on four legs in the morning two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening?

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Man walks on 4 legs in the morning (crawling as a baby), 2 legs in the afternoon (walking upright throughout most of life), and 3 legs in the evening (using a cane in old age).


...so I’d have to say 626 because ‘man’ is the answer that Oedipus gave...


...I know it’s wrong but....
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...okay, so if I use the keypad..?..I can get Sphinx...(...the ph threw me a little for a while, my thoughts weren’t of an ‘Sph word...)...and it could be a sphinx ring...but I can’t get the 626...the only thing I can see on the keyboard atm is ‘man’....


...and all I can see with the riddle of the Sphinx is...

Which creature walks on four legs in the morning two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening?

The answer…
Man walks on 4 legs in the morning (crawling as a baby), 2 legs in the afternoon (walking upright throughout most of life), and 3 legs in the evening (using a cane in old age).


...so I’d have to say 626 because ‘man’ is the answer that Oedipus gave...


...I know it’s wrong but....
FINALLY

You got it! You identified both words, and their connection, so Ammi's the winner
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Yeahhh I read all that over a few times and I still don't get it
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...actually, Oliver gave the biggest clue when he said...‘it’s not an anagram’....because he didn’t say that it didn’t correlate to the keyboard alphabet, which was the only thing that made sense...and the ‘sph...’ word really did throw me out completely for quite a while...
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...also, Matt saying ‘pharaoh’...and not knowing his Pharaohs from his sphinxes....I mean.....that threw me out a bit as well...
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...also, Matt saying ‘pharaoh’...and not knowing his Pharaohs from his sphinxes....I mean.....that threw me out a bit as well...
The sphinx head is based on a pharoah
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The numbers could at least have corresponded to how many times you had to press the keys for each letter

Not that I'd have got the crazy Oedipus link anyway
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Yeahhh I read all that over a few times and I still don't get it
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Still don’t get it
The riddle was essentially asking two questions - what are the two words, and how do they relate.

Using an alphanumeric keypad, the words are SPHINX and MAN.

The words are connected because in Egyptian mythology, the answer to the Sphinx's (first) riddle is Man!
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Speaking as someone who has answered at least 4 questions right while watching university challenge, that is ridiculous
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There’s me thinking it might be something to do with a tune like when you ring that number and the dialling sounds like happy birthday
Interesting thought!! One of my ancient phones used to have different beeep sounds for each key, and I guess I could have been using a musical scale...

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Speaking as someone who has answered at least 4 questions right while watching university challenge, that is ridiculous
Nah Surely everyone knows about the Sphinx's Riddle, if not from Classics class then just cultural osmosis?
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...any more for us, Oliver..?...
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Ammi giving Oliver Oedipus complex is certainly 2020.
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Oedipus isn't even the right mythology!! Didn't y'all ever do Antigone as a school play?!
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There’s me thinking it might be something to do with a tune like when you ring that number and the dialling sounds like happy birthday
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I am actually flabbergasted at how Ammi actually figured that out. That was ridiculously difficult and obscure Oliver
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I am actually flabbergasted at how Ammi actually figured that out. That was ridiculously difficult and obscure Oliver
But I thought everyone knew the story of the Sphinx and the riddle -even if I did forget who the protagonist was
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But I thought everyone knew the story of the Sphinx and the riddle -even if I did forget who the protagonist was
I have heard that story, the story isn't the issue
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