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 Wednesday January 30 2008

Crack the Code

curses to both Zenkimchi (for linking to) & A Geek in Korea for this mind bender of a language puzzle. I’m not good at these kind of puzzles so have a negative chance of cracking the code, but am looking forward to the solution so that I can use this with my students come the Spring semester.My guess is:

You can educate but you can’t teach



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Jan 30, 2008 at 06:41 PM
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Mr D wrote 7 words  on  Wednesday Jan 30, 2008  at  08:01 PM Germany

You can speak but you can’t talk!

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Mr D wrote 13 words  on  Thursday Jan 31, 2008  at  03:00 AM Germany

Gosh, it looks like that’ll be wrong, after all. I’ll get my coat!

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Robin wrote 23 words  on  Thursday Jan 31, 2008  at  11:05 AM Korea (South)

I’m no good at these games either, but yeah, I’d like to know the rule so I can do this w/ my SS.

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Torgodevil wrote 49 words  on  Friday Feb 1, 2008  at  07:38 AM Korea (South)

You can go out a door, but you can’t go out a window.
You can go to a pool, but you can’t swim.
You can wear a muffler, but not a necktie.
You can giggle, but you can’t laugh.
You can go to Hawaii, but not Iowa.

Get it?

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Robin wrote 5 words  on  Friday Feb 1, 2008  at  07:49 AM Korea (South)

OK, I feel dumb now.

Sean.

Sean. wrote 16 words  on  Friday Feb 1, 2008  at  07:59 AM Korea (South)

I knew that it would be something incredibly simple, but I still feel like an idiot.

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Jroberts wrote 15 words  on  Friday Feb 1, 2008  at  10:08 PM Korea (South)

We called this game Behind the Green Glass Door.  It even has its own Wiki

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Alex Case wrote 66 words  on  Wednesday Feb 6, 2008  at  05:51 PM Japan

Maybe the only positive thing about going to a strict Christian church in my early teens is now being able to bring loads of games like this into the classroom that they used to use to try and bring some non alcohol, sex and drugs related fun into our lives.

I hadn’t used this one for a couple of years in class, thanks for the reminder.

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