How many did I catch? Answer this after you have solved the 12 steps above.
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$\begingroup$ Is the cursor under 11 intentional? $\endgroup$– boboquackOct 28, 2017 at 22:44
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$\begingroup$ No the cursor is not intentional $\endgroup$– DrDOct 30, 2017 at 12:10
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$\begingroup$ You may as well delete this now you've posted the simpler version $\endgroup$– Beastly GerbilOct 31, 2017 at 17:57
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$\begingroup$ @BeastlyGerbil This seems to be a valid first part of a two-part puzzle. I've now edited both puzzles to bring them more into line with that, so that neither needs to be closed or deleted. $\endgroup$– Rand al'ThorOct 31, 2017 at 18:58
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Sorry for posting this here, but the other location, as a duplicate, is blocked for new answers.
The number caught is:
25
The number missed is:
also 25
The reason is that:
each of the 12 rebus words has an even number of letters, and is a concatenation of the 2 letter US state abbreviations. There are 35 such bigrams, but 10 are duplicates, leaving 25 "caught" and 25 "missed".
Not quite sure of the principle by which some are chosen to be caught. There are other words which could easily be made from the missing ones:
(e.g. FLAK, INKY, INKS, VAIN...).
Thanks for a fun enigma!
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$\begingroup$ Great catch (no pun intended). I had tried to follow the even number of letters point also but got nowhere. Good job! $\endgroup$– Dr tNov 2, 2017 at 21:12
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$\begingroup$ Great job. I was just about to answer my own question. $\endgroup$– DrDNov 3, 2017 at 12:28
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1$\begingroup$ It was hard to come up with a good Rebus for some of the additional words like VAIN $\endgroup$– DrDNov 3, 2017 at 12:50
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$\begingroup$ No worries I think you struck a good balance :D $\endgroup$– LaskaNov 3, 2017 at 13:16
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I will throw out there what I have at this point.
My theory:
I think that what has to be done is to find the character matches from one answer to the next and total them up and that is the answer
Is Palm + Pond - Ps
almond
Pemberton 1886 is:
coca-cola
almonds matched to coca-cola is 3
Ohms
Ohms matched to coca-cola is 1
I am quite certain that is a
Condor
Ohms matched to condor is 1I think the idea with the flower is
Nectar
condor matched to nectar is 1that is a bowl of
calamari
nectar matched to calamari is 2I have an idea on this one but need more work...
sord + seal - Ss = ordeal calamari matched to ordeal is 3
that is a picture of a moon named
Ganymede Ganymede matched to ordeal is 2
that is a
pail
Ganymede matched to pail is 1I am going to say that is
goblets
goblets matched to pail is 1lion from animated movie
working on the name...Scar according to others.
Scar matched to goblets is 0Maori woman
I was just informed by my step mother that a Maori woman is called a wahine. turns out that she knows because she has some ancestry in that direction... Wahine matched to Scar is 1
total so far is
16 You caught 16
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$\begingroup$ I can see this is turning out to be tougher to establish commonality. Many of them you have are correct. Try Pail instead of bucket, Ohms in place of omegas, nectar instead of pollen. 7 could be the hardest one I guess $\endgroup$– DrDOct 30, 2017 at 21:54
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$\begingroup$ 7 is indeed near-impossible. You need to figure out the exact species of the birds, and then you need to know the obsolete collective noun for them. After that it gets much easier :-) (That's the only new part I got, so you get a comment instead of a partial answer) $\endgroup$– BassOct 31, 2017 at 6:57
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$\begingroup$ You re right. So it is a name for flock of mallards $\endgroup$– DrDOct 31, 2017 at 12:31
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$\begingroup$ What do the "is matched to" bits mean?? $\endgroup$ Oct 31, 2017 at 17:02
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are these..
drinks ?
because as I understand...
1. oasis
2. coca-cola
3. Omega energy drink
4. Golden eagle energy drink
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8. Jupiter cocktail drink
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11. False King cocktail
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$\begingroup$ I don't believe that's meant to be an eagle... $\endgroup$– SensorayOct 30, 2017 at 12:17