Re: Country and Capital
- From: Nick Wedd <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:41:35 +0100
In message <run5a4p2saed0mjf0oldten1o35i56jcif@xxxxxxx>, dgates <dgates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:02:05 +0100, philip carter
<philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <vf94a49jmuim2mcgcm2rte63althlb38c0@xxxxxxx>, Patrick Hamlyn
<path@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
msb@xxxxxxx (Mark Brader) wrote:
Philip Carter writes:
Which country and capital am I describing?
The name of the country is seven letters long. The name of its capital
city is four letters long. The name of the capital city is spelled out
in the letters of the country in the correct order.
I'd have an answer if it said "five" instead of "four", or "eight"
instead of "seven", but I don't see one for the question as written.
After thinking about it for a while, I gave up and tried searching
in the CIA World Factbook for 4-letter capitals. But the only ones
I found were Baku, Azerbaijan; Dili, East Timor; Suva, Fiji; Nuuk,
Greenland (not a country anyway); Rome, Italy; Riga, Latvia; Male,
Maldives (8 letters); Oslo, Norway; Lima, Peru; Doha, Qatar; Apia,
Samoa; Bern, Switzerland; Lome, Togo; and Kiev, Ukraine.
Well there you have it. 'Male' is on only *one* of the Maldives :>
Just to reconfirm the question:
The country is 7 letters long and its capital is 4 letters long
I'm sensing a trick answer here, or a different interpretation of the
rules.
Me too. Also for his previous puzzle:
> In the puzzle invented by Lewis Carroll, which he called a doublet, one
> word is changed to another by altering one letter at each stage, for
> example i.e. CAT - COT - DOT - DOG.
> However, can you find a much quicker way of changing cat to dog than the
> one shown above?
with the clarification
> The rule is that you must just change one letter only at each stage.
I never saw an answer to that one.
Nick
Perhaps the letters aren't from our alphabet?
Perhaps they're even some kind of pictograms?
Maybe it's not a current country / capital?
Maybe it's a fictional country?
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Nick Wedd nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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