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[emm]

I'm stumped on the riddle so I'm off on a tangent

how do you come up with this?

Here are two different solving methods to try

1. The Double-Happy technique – this is a rapidfire brainstorming approach. Let the mind wander randomly and spontaneously from a given starting point and it will make many surprising and unexpected connections. It’s like tossing a string of exploding firecrackers into a corn field and then shooting anything that moves. This approach tends to produce a high yield of variable quality.

2. The Zen technique – for this you need to be at peace with your inner self and in a state of connectedness with the universe. Sit quietly and allow the eternal cosmic consciousness to wash over you, illuminating your mind and bequeathing its truths like a great wave that throws up dead fish on the beach after a storm. This approach tends to produce pearls of unbearable significance to yourself but which are absolutely meaningless to anyone else.

[Hud]

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1. The Double-Happy technique – this is a rapidfire brainstorming approach. Let the mind wander randomly and spontaneously from a given starting point and it will make many surprising and unexpected connections. It’s like tossing a string of exploding firecrackers into a corn field and then shooting anything that moves. This approach tends to produce a high yield of variable quality.

Here in the US we call this the "Dick Cheney approach".

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2. The Zen technique – for this you need to be at peace with your inner self and in a state of connectedness with the universe. Sit quietly and allow the eternal cosmic consciousness to wash over you, illuminating your mind and bequeathing its truths like a great wave that throws up dead fish on the beach after a storm. This approach tends to produce pearls of unbearable significance to yourself but which are absolutely meaningless to anyone else.

After several days this approach stinks imo.

[tarek]

My next guess:

Plagiarism or plagiarise

tarek

[lunababy_moonchild]

I'm stumped on the riddle so I'm off on a tangent

how do you come up with this?

Here are two different solving methods to try

1. The Double-Happy technique – this is a rapidfire brainstorming approach. Let the mind wander randomly and spontaneously from a given starting point and it will make many surprising and unexpected connections. It’s like tossing a string of exploding firecrackers into a corn field and then shooting anything that moves. This approach tends to produce a high yield of variable quality.

2. The Zen technique – for this you need to be at peace with your inner self and in a state of connectedness with the universe. Sit quietly and allow the eternal cosmic consciousness to wash over you, illuminating your mind and bequeathing its truths like a great wave that throws up dead fish on the beach after a storm. This approach tends to produce pearls of unbearable significance to yourself but which are absolutely meaningless to anyone else.

Oh.

Luna

[emm]

Good thinking, Tarek - but it must be plagiarising - 4 syllables! The House of the Rising ***!

I was close with the levitating ... who was warmer ...?

[MCC]

I can't see the word in amonst all the tangents here, so let's have a summary.

Riddle:

It may be a game to you in that get up, but you have gone too far, you'll have to go.

Someone is slightly warm in one train of thought.

You're looking for a one word answer.

Your looking for a word of four syllables.

Extra clue:

I suppose I could make it three syllables to help you on your way but you would need the SUN to guide you.

This should help you get the first three syllables.

Plagiarism or plagiarise

No.

but it must be plagiarising - 4 syllables!

No.

I was close with the levitating ... who was warmer ...?

Oh no you weren't


MCC

[tarek]

It sounds that Pla-gi-a-ri-sing has 5 syllables....
game = Play
get up, Sun, Brighton = Rise
Sun + Brighton = Plage (ignore the pebbles)...
Pla-gi-a-rism.......
Incorrect

How about this......

game, train = Exercise
train of though = power of the mind over body
go, gone = Kick out the evil spirit ALSO = OUT= EX
Brighton = Sun = Omnipotent (zenith) while Page 3 of the SUN (nadir)
Sun in Italian = Sole= Sole in English = homophone (Soul)
get up son= Darth Vader. Yes Master. RISE


Is it EX-OR-CI-SING

if incorrect, my next train of thoughts would be to connect Sun=Sol as a syllable with game,train=exercise, nothing comes out except Soul excercising

tarek

[MCC]

Ah! Soul exercising would be on the wrong track all together.

In fact, any train journey is out, so forget all about trains, and Brighton, and rising.

Is it EX-OR-CI-SING

It is not.



Think of a hyponym relating to the hypernym 'Game'.

When thinking of 'Sun', look to the heavens for guidance.

And remember you're trying to find a link between these two for the first three syllables.



MCC

[tarek]

Think of a hyponym relating to the hypernym 'Game'

Cruel, too many hyponyms

When thinking of 'Sun', look to the heavens for guidance

Nothing much really, nothing but what man has been after in his quest to cross the final frontier: INTERSTELLAR PORNSTARSPOTTING

tarek

[MCC]

Ok, one final clue before logging off for the night.

You looking at the 'heavens' of antiquity.


MCC

[emm]

I’m using the Stinky Fish approach and thinking celestially – one of my earlier responses was slightly warm and I’m running with Nirvana, the promised land, Utopia, paradise.

Sun = the source of light and energy, life force, Sol, Ra.

get-up = give rise to = cause = do

Gone too far = excess =xes

You’ve gone too far / you’ll have to go = a paradox

ANS : Paradoxes (I have no idea where game comes into it ... unless parachuting, parapenting, paragliding)

PS : Tarek - despite enlightenment, I still get picky – pla-gia-rise (3)

[MCC]

...one of my earlier responses was slightly warm...

Think donning and go from there.

Sun = the source of light and energy, life force, Sol, Ra.

Think more Europe than Africa.

ANS : Paradoxes (I have no idea where game comes into it ... unless parachuting, parapenting, paragliding)

Paralogism, and no, it's not paradoxes.

Parable: A paralytic parakeet from Paraguay took a parang to this paraphrasing and flew to the Paracel Islands.


You are looking for an intransitive verb of four syllables.


MCC

[emm]

Right! I'm donning the dhoti and waiting for inspiration....

[Ruud]

Sun god in the age of mythology in Europe:

Greek - Helios
Romans - Apollo, Sol
Vikings - Balder

Ruud.

[MCC]

A glimmer of hope

Look to what you have


MCC