Phonetic Puzzler #004

Instructions follow the image sequence.



Here it is, #004:









Instructions
Turn each image into a sound, and string these sounds together to make the answer.
They are already in the proper sequential order, top to bottom.


It usually helps to think of several possible sounds for each image, along with any tangential phonetic associations or pieces. Each image usually represents one or two syllables. These are the tidbits of answer that you collect.
Once the bits have been collected, you see what can be arranged...


This week, the answer is just one word.

Hint to be added on the weekend if no one has it yet.

Super Hint for Phonetic Photo Puzzler #003

Helloooooo...


The answer: two-word phrase, each word with 2 syllables.

And to make it a lot smoother for you, let us embellish a bit with some photo options for each phonetic chunk!



What can I say, I'm feeling generous. Or maybe the heat has gotten to me. Or the gin.





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Please post your excellent guesses in the comments below The Original Puzzle#003 Post [click]

Imageblot 003

What do you see?

Phonetic Photo Puzzler #003

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <--maniacal laughter



And now for the NEXT set of images! Puzzle-ready?



Each image somehow represents or refers to one phonetic chunk of a word or phrase.

This week, it's a phrase. See the previous Phonetic Photo Puzzlers to see how it works. I will post the answer to the 2nd one in the comments below.



























No excuses this week... this one MUST be guessed.

Phonetic Photo Puzzler #002 hint/extension

Hello.

A hint regarding the 2nd phonetic photo puzzler [click]-
This single word answer dates from the 2nd century CE.



One more (bigger) hint will now be shown below, with an actual puzzle re-do.
The second image could be removed (it is probably too vague, anyway) and replaced with two others, making:














The two new images courtesy of Wikipedia for some cyrillic characters & Limanda limanda. Yes, a dash of research will do wonders when it comes to my puzzlers. Enjoy!



Once you have it figured, please place your guesses in the original post for the 2nd phonetic photo puzzler [click].

Imageblot 002

What do you see?

Phonetic Photo Puzzler #2

How did you do on Photo Puzzler #1 [click]?

I will shortly post the answer to it in the comments for this puzzler. Seems like a good spot for it. If you disagree, too bad.


And for this week... this week I am going to aim for something more obvious? My mind is stretched into a rather thin layer of just-barelies, though, so what I interpret as more obvious might be a little off.


One word answer to the photo puzzler this week.
What do you do?
You look at the sequence of images, and think of how they might be said aloud, in order. If you get the right phonetic representations strung together, it will sound like something (maybe) obvious. I will sometimes write a post just to throw a clue your way. Sometimes. Probably more important for the phrase puzzlers, but I may throw one out there anyway this week. Nah. You'll guess it this time. I can feel it.



And here it is:








Anyone who likes the last image, it comes on t-shirts!
Go here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/16474141/nice-bra?ref=cat3_gallery_19

Until next time (and here I go answering the first puzzler [click it] in the comments right now!).

Shadows

How do you interpret this one?

"Wolfhand"

Is the wolf not a wolf, because it is only a wolf in shadow form? Or does that make it more wolf, because to see the shape of a shadow most clearly, the illumination has to be focused and direct?

What is this shop? Why is the wolf there?
Why do all the hands look like that? Are they simply unused, or are they saying something more urgent with their fingers?

Why is there a cash register, and how, then, does a wolf pay?



[saw this in an image dump... if anyone knows the maker of the image, let me know. I want to see more]

hint

I can tell that a hint is necessary for
THIS PUZZLE [click]

About the phrase:
The quote has four words to it, and was penned approximately 413 years ago.

Enjoy!

Imageblot 001

What do you see?

how to work the puzzler

In the past, I made the following visual puzzle:











Three images to represent phonetic chunks of (in this case) one word.



Using the Latin in the first image, one could quickly use their magical Google powers to figure out that this is related to The Isle of Man.

The second image, most people are familiar with. Nothing like mass marketing of an anti-corporate rebel icon across the USA on t-shirts for kids. Che Guevara.

The third image is of a traffic light. A green traffic light.




So if you were piecing together the word, the puzzle says you should go with a few phonetic choices (it helps to say them aloud): isle, man; che, maybe something military; and then light or green or go.


The phonetic sequence has the added layer of someone playing charades, pulling on their earlobe, designating a "sounds like" while you process the photos and their phonetic possibilities.


Now, this puzzle I am describing for you here is for just one word. The puzzle in my previous entry was for a whole phrase (a quote!). When a phrase happens, there is an extra layer of puzzling because something like an indefinite article may or may not be included in the photos phonetically, even if it is in the phrase. Something like "THE" would be rather silly to represent in pictures, although I suppose I could post a foreign box of tea and be done with it (but then that would be confusing- do I mean a phonetic TEE or just THE? So I leave that stuff out.



I hope this example of phonetic processing is at least somewhat helpful, and that you don't give up (quitter). Just think of the sense of achievement you'll feel if you actually make it to the finish line with one of my puzzles.


I will post the answer to the above, one-word example in the comments section.
Feel free to ask questions, if you have any, about the process. Or voice your disgust (jerk).

Phonetic Photo Puzzler #1

OK... so here is what you do: You look at the sequence of photos below. Each one represents a phonetic chunk of a phrase, word, quote, etc. You think of all the different possibilities for each phonetic chunk. THEN, you figure out what the hell I was thinking of by stringing them together into something that suddenly makes sense as a recognizable quote, phrase, word, etc. You have to GET me at not just ONE level, but at least two, if not fifteen. Hopeless? Perhaps.



OR IS IT ?!






This may be beyond many of you, simply because your brains are sleepy. Or tired. Or relaxing. Or uninterested. You can all just go the fuck away.




For those of you who ARE interested in figuring out what the hell I'm thinking, have at it!


Note to self: rewrite that intro to be a little less prickly before next time.




Phonetic Photo Puzzler #1

Today, it's a more or less famous quote(it took every ounce of my being not to do a single word).

Trying a "simple" one to start... broken into three photos as follows (yes, they are in the correct sequential order. I'm not THAT cruel... today.)


















Good luck. Feel free to spoil it by commenting. I don't care.
If you do, just- Don't. Look. Down.




Inkblot to be reborn this week, as well.
Enjoy!


images found with a Google image search can be attributed to
http://comics.com/mr_fish/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%28musical%29
and your local measurement specialist.



I may post a clue a day or so before I spill the beans... if no one has it yet.

egg rehatched

After several days attempting to morph into a gorgeous patch of lichen (with an almost desperate form of anxiety on the end result of me = lichen), I remain human.

Damn.


The levels of exhaustion I've been feeling this summer have been at an all-time high. Low? Either way, I'm tired. My arms are nearly always shaking. My neck feels funny-bone tired, as if keeping my enormous head upright were a job for Atlas, not for me. My eyeballs want me to turn them off. I'm sick of the daily combat with incorrigibility and psychosis (neither necessarily my own) and fixing things with paperwork I cannot locate. I would crawl under a rock if I could do that, surrounded by the cool soil and tickled by the occasional wayward worm or beetle. Not dead yet! I would muse, and shuttle them to the other side of me.

So now what? NOW WHAT?


I'll tell you what.
The ultimate destroyer of time and space... the drainer of mental excess and excuses... the exit door from self-pity and the entryway of confounded escape!

Puzzles.


That's right. I'm so far gone, I've decided to start making puzzles again.

There goes the neighborhood.



I think I'm going to make it a little different from the way it used to be. I am going to try the following:

• find a quote/phrase/saying of interest
• turn it into a series of phonetic blocks that can be represented with images in some way
• present the series of images for you to look at, and for you to try to figure out what on earth I was focusing on
• a possible clue to help you narrow it down

I once made these puzzles weekly, for just one word at a time. Now I'm trying it out for an entire phrase/quote/saying. Deal with it.



You can also expect a return of the weekly "inkblots" to surface. And why the hell not. I may not have a very good camera anymore, but I should still be able to get images edited.

As always, these are more exercises for my mind than they are for yours. But if other people get something out of it, that makes it even sweeter.


First puzzle should be up this evening. Answers will be posted with the pictures for the next one, probably in a week.



You will get no apologies from me on this one. The ball is rolling.