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Post by frankmcvey (Angel) on Apr 1, 2015 21:25:04 GMT
1. Le iik'o' ka'ach jump'éel torrente e'ejoch'e'enil  2. Doble doblado, bey mendigos ti' sacos,  3. Yaan ba'alo'ob jela'antak ti' le k'iino' medianoche  4. Le tin maachaj u queda le peajes tañido u k'iin u le despedida  5. Bajara le mares ti' le solitario k'áak'náabo' yéetel ka'an.  Aerial Views, please. Ka xi'ik teech utsil!  |
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Post by Hill on Apr 1, 2015 21:43:19 GMT
Like me, Google translate does not have a clue.  |
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Post by frankmcvey (Angel) on Apr 1, 2015 21:58:51 GMT
Oranges are not the only fruit...
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Post by Walter_V_R on Apr 4, 2015 11:31:17 GMT
That was a nice one  |
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Post by frankmcvey (Angel) on Apr 4, 2015 12:56:00 GMT
Ha! I might have known you'd crack it quite quickly, Walter. I'm going to have to make them harder!  |
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Post by lockhopper on Apr 4, 2015 15:37:13 GMT
    
Fab! Well done, enjoyed that.
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Post by krenek on Apr 5, 2015 6:27:25 GMT
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Post by frankmcvey (Angel) on Apr 14, 2015 10:27:24 GMT
White text: >>If you happen to be one of the 800,000 Central Americans who speak Yucatec Maya, and you've made a study of classic English poetry, you'll have found this puzzle very easy.
For all the rest of us, here how it's done:
Your clues are the images, the incomprehensible title and five equally incomprehensible clues. A close inspection of the images reveal that they are of cemeteries, but that's about all, so you need to work on the text clues.
Simply copying and pasting the title into Google instantly reveals that it is a cordial greeting in Yucatec Maya.
The problem is that the Google translator does not yet understand this language, which seemed to be a sticking point for some people. There are other translators out there, as I hinted to Hill, and Bing just about copes.
By putting the the first text clue into Bing, it comes up with "The wind caste a darkness torrent"
By Googling this phrase, the very first hit you get is that Google offers "The wind was a torrent of darkeness" and tells you that this is the first line of the famous spooky poem, The Highwayman, written by Alfred Noyes.
So you now have a name to connect to the first graveyard. Simply Googling "Alfred Noyes Grave" will tell you that he was buried in St Saviour Roman Catholic Churchyard ,Totland, Isle of Wight. Put that address into the GE Viewer search box, and it takes you there. Capture, host and post.
Same procedure for the other 4 clues. Easy, eh?
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