July 4th, 2005

Some holiday fun: Puzzle #2

(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.)

Upon arrival at the first puzzle location, she was handed the second puzzle:

“Opghg’i xk ialp opfxw zi
z ioaufy jagiofkx.”
Wk ok opg fxqkhvzofkx ygib
fx Lgxogh Pkaig zxy zib fq
opge pzmg zxe oflbgoi
zmzfnzdng qkh opg Vzhfxghi
wzvg.

The following clues are not necessary for solving the puzzle, but are provided in case you get stuck.

_ _ _ _ _ What Gérard Depardieu might bid
_ _ _ _ _ It babbles
_ _ _ _ _ Hip hop artist LL (2 words)
_ _ _ _ _ Nerd
_ _ _ _ _ College application requirement
_ _ _ _ _ Mushrooms, for example
_ _ _ _ _ Mystery, for example
_ _ _ _ _ Yellow bile is one
_ _ _ _ _ One of the bones of the inner ear
_ _ _ _ _ Denzel Washington movie 2002 (2 words)
_ _ _ _ _ Humming instrument
_ _ _ _ _ Expressing deep emotion
_ _ _ _ _ “I want __ ___.” (2 words)
_ _ _ _ _ A Russian one will be long
_ _ _ _ _ Hardly concealed
_ _ _ _ _ To cook in near-boiling water
_ _ _ _ _ To drink heartily
_ _ _ _ _ Famous Swiss watchmaker
_ _ _ _ _ It met Apollo in the 1970’s
_ _ _ _ _ Author of “One L”
_ _ _ _ _ To seize control by force
_ _ _ _ _ It’s poisonous
_ _ _ _ _ It’s not right
_ _ _ _ _ Atomic number 54
_ _ _ _ _ You do it at a triangle
_ _ _ _ _ Striped animal

Answers to all puzzles will be posted tomorrow. Please do not post spoilers.

Onward to Puzzle #3.

Author

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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