Super hard puzzle #7 - Symbols (not too hard at all actually)

[Pigs in Space]

Another easy one as we get back into the swing of things.

[Redallia]

Easy?

O_o

My only thought is that it might be a word that's spelled out phonetically. ^ is kind of an "ahh" sound, and @ is kinda R'ish. I don't know if ":" or the arrow are represented.

[Name Lips]

arrow is a carriage return, I think.

[Freedom Canadian]

":" is a letter in the iroquois written language. I doubt it has anything to do with that, though.

Maybe something about the position of these keystrokes on the keyboard ? Or is there an ascii code for carriage returns ?

[Black Angel]

arrow is a carriage return, I think.

I agree, on my keyboard it is the symbol on the 'Enter' key.

So maybe followed by the 's' it stands for returns or enters?

[Black Angel]

In fact most of the other symbols could be considered as parts of words

^ is the only one I'm not sure of.... maybe up?
: is colon
@ is at
and if we take the arrow as enter

W^colonelatecenters

Don't know if that works at all? Maybe it will give someone another idea?

[The Winslow]

@ is originally a cursive ad. Not the English abbreviation of advertisement, the Latin word for "at".

W^:el@ec←s

Hmm.

In fact most of the other symbols could be considered as parts of words

^ is the only one I'm not sure of.... maybe up?
: is colon
@ is at
and if we take the arrow as enter

W^colonelatecenters

Don't know if that works at all? Maybe it will give someone another idea?

Double-U caret colonel ate centers?

Is it about an officer eating carrot cake with Bush Junior?

[Redallia]

Could that be something written in shorthand? If so, does anybody here know how to read it?

Edit: Looking around, I don't think it's shorthand.

[The Winslow]

The caret (^) is also called chevron, wedge, up arrow, or hat.

If we use hat, W^ gives "What". So "What colonel ate centers". It's nearly a sentence. But if it's the solution, I don't get it. What is "eating centers" supposed to mean? "creturns" or "cline feeds" doesn't really work any better than "centers".

[Redallia]

White Chocolate Centers? What Colonel Sanders...?

[Kastil]

what if the 'enter' symbol means return (as in the previously mentioned 9carriage return)

What colonel ate see returns

..which sounds pretty vomitious in intent. ;)

I got nothing.

[Name Lips]

Maybe:
What colonel at sea returns

edit: just realized I left off the e...


What colonel ate centers?

At least that's a proper question, the answer to which might be the solution.

...I see somebody else already came up with that. :tongue:

Centers. Could be a building, like a community center. Or more likely the center of an edible object. I'm thinking oreos.

[Name Lips]

ATE Centers:

http://atecenters.org/

Don't think that helps

[Name Lips]

Googling keeps turning up THIS thread.

Also a thread on the XKCD forums where they're apparently working on the same puzzle. I didn't peek.

[The Winslow]

"What colonel ate" is certainly that. "Centers", however, doesn't make sense. "Sarrows" doesn't either.

I went here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_%28symbol%29) to investigate other possible names for this symbol used here. The one that looks the closest is ↩: "Leftwards Arrow With Hook". Huh.

[Schizm]

The answer is probably "Fried Chicken."

I hope not.

[Redallia]

I feel like we're all really close to the answer, but we just can't see it. And poor PiS has to wait and watch us struggle.

[TiQuinn]

I don't know but Colonel Ate Centers sounds very close to Colonel H. Sanders.

[Name Lips]

The one that looks the closest is ↩: "Leftwards Arrow With Hook". Huh.

What colonel ate chooks?


Chook = chicken http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cho2.htm

So yeah, Col Sanders of KFC.

[Black Angel]

Oooh that soundsgood, I think you might have it NL!

[Pigs in Space]

What colonel ate chooks?


Chook = chicken http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cho2.htm

So yeah, Col Sanders of KFC.

Yes you do have it right!!!



:cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[Name Lips]

woot!

[Harry]

chooks

:what: