Unwind and Descramble

OH ok. So I can post all 10 at once? I thought you meant one scramble per day.

 

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Thank you. You are indeed correct. Scramble #8 has four vowels. My bad.

Let me offer all this hint for #8: Two "i" vowels were added. There are two others in the mix.

My apologies and kudos for point this out! :bow:

 

Yes, I would recommend that you only post all 10 when you make your guess but be confident that you are certain for when you do if there are errors you will need to wait 24 hours to post again, in which time others may have been helped by your post and go for the win themselves.

Not one scramble per day. You need all ten to win. This also helps limit the number of posts and me having to keep track of many posts per day tracking progress. I'm not saying you can't post your guesses one per day, but that could limit or hurt your chances of winning.

 

Alright... although I don't think this is the most strategical, I'll go ahead and post all I got and get some pointers on the ones I've got wrong:
1. aio - Seated Morgan or 'Morgan Seated' (Liberty Seated Quarter, Morgan Dollar)

2. iiy - Gobrecht Buffalo (Gobrecht Dollar, American Gold Buffalo)

3. ee - Draped Shield (Draped Bust, Shield Nickel)

4. yio - Heraldic Liberty (Heraldic Eagle, Walking Liberty)

5. eoe - Capped Indian (Capped Bust, Indian Head Penny)

6. aoy - Standing Barber (Standing Liberty Quarter, Barber Nickel)

7. uua - Flying Mercury (Flying Eagle Cent, Mercury Dime)

8. This is certainly wrong since it requires the omission of 3 "i"s instead of 2:
iiei - Braided Peace (Braided Hair Cent, Peace Dollar)

9. eae - Matron Nickel (Matron Head 1 Cent, Buffalo/Jefferson/etc. Nickel)

10. uoi - Wreath Stella (As in Indian Head Laurel Wreath or the Wreath Variety cent, and Stella= 4 dollar goldpiece? lol)

10, among others, are... a stretch, haha. But hey, I figure it's an alright first attempt and hopefully it'll get this contest moving! Happy belated Thanksgiving all!

 

YOU NAILED IT! ALL Answers Correctly Descrambled!!!

Very Impressive!WTG!!!

:hail: cubenewb is the winner! :hail:

Please PM me your shipping address and I'll have your Walker on it's way to you.

Congrats! :thumb:


Thanks to everyone who chimed in and who may have been playing along silently but hadn't yet posted. The contest is now over.

 

Does a "y" count as a vowel?

 

Yes. Y can be a vowel. Please also note that we now have a winner.

 

Haha, awesome! I honestly cannot convey my elation right now (Lol I know it's only a contest.... but I still feel accomplished )! That last one was especially tough; I kept trying to fit together words like "Laurel", "Wheat", "Wheaties", etc... Flipping through the Red Book helped a ton when I saw that 4-dollar gold pieces are called "Stella"'s. I saw "Buffalo" right off in Number 2, and I think I may have had a semi-savant-like moment when I saw 'Gobrecht' in all that mess! Very fun contest, VERY HARD, but above everything else thanks so much for the contest krispy. You are a really productive contributor to this site and I always appreciate your in-depth, well-researched posts; I look forward to competing with you in other contests


P.S. A strategy that helped me a bunch: Rearrange the ordering of the consonants (I used notepad) until something jumps out at you; distinctive letters like "k" and "w" made things much easier.

 

Aren't there descrambler programs out there that can do this?

 

That's really great! I love hearing how you approached this and about your sense of accomplishment. Well done.

It was my pleasure to create this contest with varying degrees of difficulty, names and terms familiar and juxtaposed unfamiliar to one another.

 

Yes, which is why I said in the first post that contestants should not use those sites to make this a true challenge. The existence of these descrambler web sites is why I also chose to blend two words and add vowels for complexity. Additionally, I tested each one in several top descramblers that come up in the top Google searches for 'word unscramble' and I found that many of those could not descramble my randomly jumbled text. Give them a try.

 

matron!......dang that was the last one I needed and my brain was locked....great job and congrats cubenewb
Thanks for the fun contest Krispy!

 

Sounds like you were incredibly close to winning yourself. Thanks for giving it a try.

 

Congrats cubenewb!

Thanks, again, Krispy!

 

You bet. Glad to have you all on board for the contest! :smile

 

W O W ! I am stunned! Awesome job! Myself I have only come up with four words! You are on cloud nine right now I hope! G R E A T. J O B.!! Great contest Krispy, very challenging. Kind thanks to you. Lucy

 

Thanks Lucy. Happy to have you playing along again on this contest of mine too. :smile

 

It came today! Thanks so much krispy; I put it in a spare black-ring airtite I had as soon as I got it. Below is a picture (although it's probably too small to see).

 

Darn! I would have liked to participate in this game, but my computer was offline for 3 weeks while I was moving. I've always enjoyed word puzzles and my specialty during my Army service (69-71) was cryptanalysis.

Chris

 

Noting your background, is there a method you would suggest as the best way to approach this? I pretty much just copied them all into notepad (got around that painfully annoying colored text lol), looked for coin-related words I knew (with the assistance of the red book) and reordered them when I picked stuff out. I feel like my method was very trial and error, likeso:

chibabgflifuyoetor

chibgiyetor buffalo

chbgrtyieoi buffalo
Gobrecht Buffalo (-yii)

Any suggestions for a more systematic approach?