Wednesday, 31 January 2007
D. PAKETLÖSNING (D. PACKAGE DEAL)
Hört talas om ketchupeffekten?
Many solvers were probably confused by the collection of spices on the kitchen bench. It looked like Swedish glögg, a mulled wine served hot during the winter, but was in fact the ever useful tomato sauce: ketchup! The versions mentioned in the text were Swedish Felix (link to question 15) and the American Heinz. The latter was part of the debate for the Kerry presidential campaign and is also liked to the occult Masonry number 57 (through the slogan "57 varieties"). The question was correctly answered by 19 % of the participants and was worth 25 points. Correct answer: k
Tuesday, 30 January 2007
B. DEN 13/12 (B. THE 13/12)
Makes people flip (out)?
Some changes are not at all appreciated by everyone. When the US Mint tried to replace the 1-dollar bill once and for all, it all ended in fiasco. First, they were unable to manufacture the coin in its original 11-sided(!) design, but the big problem occurred when they chose women's suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony for the front. The coin was referred to a a Carter Quarter and many places simply denied to accept it as legal tender. This led to one of the shortest mint run in US history, being struck only 1979-1981. However, when the US Postal Service filed a complaint that they were running low on dollar coins, the mint issued the coin again in 1999. From 2000, the dollar coin has been the golden one depicting Sacagawea and her son. The question was correctly answered by 19 % of the solvers and was worth 25 points. Correct answer: o
Monday, 29 January 2007
A. ÅRETS PERSONLIGHET (A. MAN OF THE YEAR)
Äter allt som kommer i vägen!
Klurbloggen has previously reported that Time Magazine every year appoints one person considered to be the most important one of that year. Among previous winners, we find both celebrities or as they did in 1982 a machine, namely the computer. Other journals and media elsewhere have followed, also for its entertaining value. For the year 1982, MAD Magazine proudly announced that the famous arcade character Pac-Man was the Man of the Year! The famous meeting between him and Billy Mitchell was described in the question, where Billy was the first person to score the maximum amount of points - a magnificent 3,333,360 - in one session! The question was answered correctly by 19 % of the participants and was worth 25 points. Correct answer: Pac-Man
Sunday, 28 January 2007
F. SANT ELLER FALSKT? (F. TRUE OR FALSE?)
a) sant (Montenegro och Serbien gick skilda vägar dagarna före VM.)
b) falskt (George W. Bush är den fyrtioandra personen.)
c) falskt (Det första inköpet skedde på ön Reunion i Indiska oceanen.)
d) falskt (14 maj 1916 infördes sommartid på prov.)
e) falskt (Monstret heter inte Frankenstein - det är hans skapare!)
Frågan besvarades korrekt av 24 % av deltagarna och var värd 7,5 poäng. Rätt svar: e
Some solvers thought that this assignment was too much work for too few answers! Nevertheless, it could not have been too tricky since the chance of guessing it correctly was 25 %! Here are the correct answers for the individual questions:
a) true (Montenegro separated from Serbia just before the World Cup.)
b) false (George W. Bush is the fortysecond person.
c) false (The first purchase was done on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean.)
d) false (14 May 1916 Sweden introduced daylight saving time for a trial run.)
e) false (Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not the monster!)
The question was answered correctly by 24 % of the solvers and was worth 7.5 points. Correct answer: e
Saturday, 27 January 2007
C. SPÅR I BECKSVART MÖRKER (C. GRUESOME EVIDENCE IN THE DARK)
The logo of the "movie producer".
Swedes naturally recycle their cans and bottles, and was in fact once world leading in that respect. Nowadays, they are reminded quite frequently on tv through infomercials to get back into that spot. Several attempts have been made to make them more interesting and one attempt copied the popular Swedish crime drama series Beck. Most of the previous movies are still available online at one of the homepages of Returpack. The question was answered correctly by 24 % of the participants and was worth 7.5 points. Correct answer: R
Vickningsmenyn (The Late Night Snacks)
Before we reveal the answers to the hardest and trickiest riddles in Klurendrejeriet(R) 2007, we will go through the answers for The Late Night Snacks. Their points were derived from a separate scale and was only used to find the fourth finalist, since no one found the final touch among the menus of Restaurant Klurendrejeriet.
Friday, 26 January 2007
8. TVÅLFAGER TVÅLFRÅGA (8. THE L WORDS)
50 var nyckelordet!
Every time a Swede opens up the wallet, you may find a lot of bills, but rarely more than one of the denomination 50 crown. Since it was reintroduced a few years ago, there have been multiple complaints that there simply is not enough of them. In a similar situation, the half crown coin is remarkably often absent when one needs one and vice versa! Both words, femtiolapp and femtioöring, are on the same page in SAOL XIII, making the page difference turn zero. The question was correctly solved by 10 % of the participants and was worth 26 points. Correct answer: n
Thursday, 25 January 2007
4. EN SKUM AFFÄR (4. THE FRENCH-ITALIAN JOB)
Det finns bara ett sätt att stoppa dem - i munnen!
Valuable heirlooms may be precious ones, but are they still valuable if 93 million have been produced this year already? The somewhat cryptic collector in Madagascar has, the homepage states, a pink-coloured Ahlgren's car from 1960 at home. The chewy candy is sold worldwide by IKEA and other Swedish-related stores, and the entire story can be found at the Swedish site www.ahlgrensbilar.com or the Norwegian/Danish counterpart www.ahlgrensbiler.com - together with the one about the hairy version. The question was answered correctly by 24 % of the participants and was worth 22 points.
Wednesday, 24 January 2007
Klurendrejeriet in the media (part 12)
If you are using Google as you main search engine and have Google Toolbar installed, it offers "Klurendrejeriet" as soon as you enter "klure". If you still have doubts on where to go, you might also go to www.klurendrejeriet.se which wil re-direct you to the homepage of Ultunesaren.
12. PUBLIKFAVORIT (12. CROWD PLEASER)
Kan njuta av sin egen choklad.
Since 1976, Swedish television has shown the same cartoon on December 24 by the name of Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton, which is based upon Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton by Tage Danielsson. This, however, has nothing to do with the answer to this question! Instead, the correct answer was Aladdin, the story from The Book of One Thousand and One Night. The stories has some similarities, but only Aladdin fits as it also is the name of the best-selling box of chocolate by Marabou. The picture elements are representing different pralines in the box. The question was correctly answered by 38 % of the participants and was worth 16.5 points. Correct answer: A
Tuesday, 23 January 2007
6. RÄKNEUPPGIFT (6. CALCULATION)
59 x 3 x 19 x 23 - 4 = 77345 (Shell)
151 x 31 x 19 x 60 - 2 = 5336338 (Beegees)
64 x 899 x 977 x 946 + 2 = 53177187714 (Hillbillies)
81 x 6 x 331 x 2 +6 = 321738 (Belize)
216 x 117 x 3 x ? -71 = (Google)
För att få beräkningen att stämma för den angivna sökmotorn Google behöver man använda siffran 5. Gåtan löstes korrekt av 38 % av deltagarna och var värd 16,5 poäng. Rätt svar: f
Go forth and multiply!
Nowadays pocket calculators can draw graphs and store games, but there was a time when they only could do one thing: calculate! These simple calculators are still around and were put to good use when solving this riddle. If one performed the calculations given (that looked like IP numbers) and turned the calculator upside-down, one can read the following:
59 x 3 x 19 x 23 - 4 = 77345 (Shell)
151 x 31 x 19 x 60 - 2 = 5336338 (Beegees)
64 x 899 x 977 x 946 + 2 = 53177187714 (Hillbillies)
81 x 6 x 331 x 2 +6 = 321738 (Belize)
216 x 117 x 3 x ? -71 = (Google)
To make the calculation work for the given search engine Google, one needs the number 5. The riddle was solved by 38 % of the participants and was worth 16.5 points. Correct answer: f
Monday, 22 January 2007
Klurendrejeriet in the media (part 11)
Upsala Nya Tidning has interviewed Johanna Dernfalk, the winner of Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007. If you have access to a printed copy of the newspaper from January 22, you find the article on pages A6-A7.
Finalrapport (Report from the final) [2]
(continued from this post) The entire final and also the warm-up lunch that started at 1 p.m. followed the theme of the contest: food! Two red-and-white logotypes were served together with family heirlooms and doubly troubling spelling mistakes. After the lunch it was high time to start the real deal! The final was devided into a separating question and four parts: knowledge, practical problem, culture, and klur. The finalists were put to the test in all parts, and as always(?) the knowledge one was the toughest. Were the questions too hard or did the time limit stress them to make mistakes? Either way, after three parts the race was so tight that anyone could still win! The last part was recgonition of citrus tastes and spice smells. The best performer in this part won the entire contest: the Klurendrejare of the Year is Johanna Dernfalk, Uppsala. Runner-up (after an additional tie-breaking questions was last year's winner Harald Cederlund (also Uppsala). Tobias Lauer, the far-travelling German from Freiburg, ended up on third place and Julia Paraskova finished fourth. Congratulations, Johanna and all other winners!
14. JUST DO IT!
fröken Röd/Scharlakan (Scarlett Johansson)
professor Plommon (plommonet)
överste Senap (senapen från överste Sanders restaurangkedja KFC)
pastor Grön (pastor Åke Green)
fru Vit (Betty White)
Om mordoffret nu är direktör Jansson är man frestad att säga att "fru Blå gjorde det med kniven i köket". Frågan löstes korrekt av 43 % av deltagarna och var värd 10,5 poäng. Rätt svar: r
Ingen oskyldig blå viol ...
A table filled with photos and some food has more in common than one thinks. All are suspects, but since only one person is missing that person was probably the one who did it! The supects are:
Miss Scarlett (Scarlett Johansson)
Professor Plum (the plum)
Colonel Mustard (the KFC mustard)
Rev. Green (reverend Åke Green!)
Mrs. White (Betty White)
And if the murder victim is Dr. Black we are tempted to say that it was "Mrs. Peacock that did it with the knife in the kitchen". The question was correctly solved by 43 % of the participants and was worth 10.5 points. Correct answer: r
Klurbloggen fyller/turns 100!
This posting is the hundredth entry on Klurbloggen and we hope that there are plenty of readers and solvers that continue to pay attention to whatever is written here, even though next year's contest is eleven months away. Who knows, maybe there will be a clue revealed in the middle of June?
Sunday, 21 January 2007
Finalrapport (Report from the final)
It is not completely incorrect to say that the final started already on Saturday evening, as the finalists' dinner was held at Texas Long Horn in Uppsala. The restaurant offered appetizer, main course, and dessert (recognize it?) and also a foto opportunity. The local newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning had sent out a photographer to take a picture of the finalists, which will be completed with a small article in Monday's issue of the paper. It was a satisfied group that left the restaurant to prepare for the final the day after. The Sunday came, but the only thing the finalists knew was that they should be ready to be picked up at 12:30 p.m., half an hour before the final. Just like the answers in Klurendrejeriet(TM), the final is (best) kept secret, where only the organizers knew what would happen ... (to be continued)
7. HÖJDEN AV FRÄCKHET! (7. THAT DOES IT!)
I alla år har det funnits med en tändsticksproblem i Klurendrejeriet(TM) och detta år var inget undantag. Men hur skall man få VI = V - XI att gå ut utan att flytta alltför många tänstickor? Om man reflekterar på rätt sätt (använd en spegel, inte tankekraft!) ser man lösningen direkt! I spegeln kan man läsa IX - V = IV, en ekvation som naturligtvis stämmer. Frågan besvarades korrekt av 43 % av lösarna och var värd 10,5 poäng. Rätt svar: L
Mirror, mirror on the wall ...
Klurendrejeriet(TM) has offered a matchstick problem previously, and this year was no different. But how can one make the equality VI = V - XI work without moving aroung too many matches? If one reflects upon the problem in a correct manner (that is, using a mirror and not the head!), the solution presents itself instantly! In the mirror, one can read IX - V = IV, which works fine! The question was answered correctly by 43 % of the solvers and was worth 10.5 points. Correct answer: L
Saturday, 20 January 2007
11. DUBBELTRUBBEL (11. DOUBLE TROUBLE)
Stopplikt, eller hur?
Ever since Sweden got international road signs, there has been written STOP on the red-and-white octagon sign - even though the correct spelling is STOPP. The same spelling is seen on the "next stop button" on buses. We have reason to get back to this answer later ... The question was answered correctly by 52 % of the solvers and was worth 6 points. Correct answer: P
Klurendrejeriet in the media (part 10)
The German newspaper Badische Zeitung has interviewed the German finalist Tobias Lauer in their web-based youth magazin Fudder. Tobias explains the setup of the contest and that he has reached the final. You can read the entire interview - aptly(?) titled Bring home the jackpot - here (in German, of course!).
Friday, 19 January 2007
5. LATTJOLAJBANLÅDAN (5. THE ZOOTCASE)
Los Angeles = LAX (Los Angeles International Airport)
Hannover = HAJ (Hannover Flughafen)
Alice Springs = ASP (Alice Springs Airport)
Koden SIK används för närvarande av Sikeston Memorial Municipal Airport i Missouri, USA och är inte bland de mest välbesökta. Om du flyger med SAS till ICEHOTEL i Jukkasjärvi är destinationen Kiruna flygplats (KRN). Frågan besvarades korrekt av 52 % av lösarna och var värd 6 poäng. Rätt svar: K
Tag - you're it!
Every time you travel, it is good if your luggage reaches the same destination! To make this happen, there is an international standard - a three-letter code - for all commercial airports. For the cities represented on the suitcase as stickers we could read:
Los Angeles = LAX (Los Angeles International Airport)
Hannover = HAJ (Hannover Flughafen)
Alice Springs = ASP (Alice Springs Airport)
The code SIK is currently used by Sikeston Memorial Municipal Airport in Missouri, USA and is not one of the most frequently used ones. If you fly with SAS to the ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi, your destination is Kiruna Airport (KRN). The question was correctly answered by 52 % of the solvers and worth 6 points. Correct answer: K
Vinnarna i Extrachansen!
Alexander Lundberg, Bonässund
Alexandra Hermansson, Uppsala
Andrew Friberg, Uppsala
Anna-Ida Johnsson, Uppsala
Anssi Vuorinen, Helsingfors, Finland
Candace Fuller Schissel, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Carin Eriksson, Uppsala
Cecilia Berglund, Uppsala
Henrik Pettersson, Uppsala
Ingrid Lundberg, Järved
Joris van Schaik, Uppsala
Leticia Pizzul, Uppsala
Michaela Baumgardt, Uppsala
Rachel Willson-Broyles, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Tommy Hermansson, Uppsala
Stormen orsaken (The storm did it)
The reason why the web counter stopped working is found. Webstats4U has informed Ultunesaren that the error was caused by a power failure during the storms that ravage Europe last night. The error should be solved within a few hours.
13. DELICATESSEN
Jag vill ha blommig falukorv till lunch, mamma!
Nåt annat vill jag inte ha!
Jag hatar tomaten
och fisken och spenaten
och plättarna med lingonsylt.
Fläsk - har vi för ofta!
Lamm - smakar som kofta!
Biff med lök är riktigt läbbigt!
(ref.)
Nä - aldrig jag äter
mer rotmos och potäter
och isterband och kalvkotlett!
Pytt - det är för pyttigt!
Mjölk - det är för nyttigt!
Knäckebröd - för hårt att tugga!
(ref.)
Allting har en ände ...
Every Swedish child knows the song Blommig falukorv by Hasse Alfredsson. The groceries on our shopping list are those mentioned in the lyrics (see above) as nasty food - all he wants is sausages with flowers! The question was answered correctly by 57 % of the solvers and was worth 3 points. Correct answer: r
Webbräknare nere! (Web counter down!)
For some reason, the web counter at the homepage of Ultunesaren has stopped working. If this is due to the massive interest during the last month is still unknown, but the error has been reported to Webstats4U.
Thursday, 18 January 2007
4000 besökare/clicks!
The website www.ultunesaren.se passed 4000 clicks yesterday. Among these 4000 we find visitors from 25 countries from all over the world, even though Europe is the most common continent. Naturally Sweden is in the lead (87%) with Finland and Germany a bit behind (4% each), and then the US and the UK (1% each). Among the other recurring visiting countries we find Denmark, The Netherlands, Australia, Norway and Austria.
3. EN ANNORLUNDA TOUCH (3. A DIFFERENT TOUCH)
VM-fotboll = Sporty Spice
ängladocka = Baby Spice
ingefära = Ginger Spice
Scream-mask = Scary Spice
Peterborough F.C. = Posh Spice
Begreppet var således Spice Girls. Frågan besvarades korrekt av 62 % av lösarna och var värd 1,5 poäng. Rätt svar: i
Spice, spice, baby!
Show me the spice rack in your kitchen and I will tell you what you eat! There are however more things that spice up your life, in this case music performed by five happy girls from Britain:
World Cup football = Sporty Spice
angel doll = Baby Spice
ginger root = Ginger Spice
Scream mask = Scary Spice
Peterborough F.C. = Posh Spice
The concept was thus Spice Girls. The question was answered correctly by 62 % of the solvers and was worth 1.5 points. Correct answer: i
Klurendrejeriet in the media (part 9)
SLU has posted the press release about the final for Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007 on its homepage. The blog search knuff.se links to several blog notes about the contest.
Wednesday, 17 January 2007
Dags för final i Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007!
Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007 går nu in i nästa fas - finalen! Samtliga finalister är utsedda, varav tre kommer från Uppsala och en ända från Tyskland! Den regerande mästaren Harald Cederlund har än en gång lyckats ta sig till final, en final som går av stapeln på hemlig plats i Uppsala nu på söndag. Där väntar ytterligare prov för de fyra finalisterna. Förstapriset i tävlingen är två nätters övernattning på ICEHOTEL i Jukkasjärvi med flyg t-o-r Kiruna med SAS samt den åtråvärda trofén Kluren, som tillverkas av Hälle Krukmakeri i Bjästa utanför Örnsköldsvik. Samtliga finalister får även en volym av Nationalnyckeln och en finalmiddag på Texas Long Horn i Uppsala. Övriga priser kommer från Akademibokhandeln LundeQ och Wallins Matsal i Uppsala.
För ytterligare information om Klurendrejeriet eller en gratis kopia av tidningen Ultunesaren, kontakta:
Daniel Lundberg (red. 2006)
Ultunesaren
Ultuna studentkår
0739-43 59 36
ultunesaren@stud.slu.se
http://www.ultunesaren.se (tidningens hemsida)
http://klurendrejeriet.blogspot.com (tävlingens blogg)
Ultunesaren är sedan 1939 Ultuna studentkårs tidning och trycks i 2500 exemplar. Tidningen erbjuds även i digital version i pdf-format på dess hemsida (www.ultunesaren.se).
15. VÄGGUIDNING (15. WALL (STREET) GUIDE)
Matteus 21 september
Markus 25 april
Lukas 18 oktober
Felix 14 januari (d.v.s. för tre dagar sedan!)
Frågan besvarades korrekt av 62 % av lösarna och var värd 1,5 poäng. Rätt svar: F
Felix - ett populärt klurnamn!
Sweden is often quoted as the most secular country in the world. Perhaps was it this fact that led question 15. WALL (STREET) GUIDE to be so easily identified. Though it may have looked biblical, it was not Johannes (Swedish spelling of John) that was missing. If one studies a Swedish almanac, one soon realizes that what look like quotes from the scripture in reality were each name's given day:
Matteus 21 September
Markus 25 April
Lukas 18 October
Felix 14 January (that is, three days ago!)
The question was answered correctly by 62 % of the solvers and was worth 1.5 points. Correct answer: F
Tuesday, 16 January 2007
2. IS SAKNAS (2. IS MISSING)
magnesium (Mg) [vågen väger upp 1 milligram]
aluminium (Al) [Al Bundy i Våra värsta år]
?
fosfor (P) [parkeringsplats]
svavel (S) [internationell signalflagga för bokstaven S]
Det som saknas är alltså beteckningen för kisel, Si, som även antyddes i frågans titel IS SAKNAS! Frågan besvarades korrekt av 67 % av tävlingens deltagare och var värd 1 poäng. Rätt svar: i
The Swedish Institute is also Si!
The easiest question from the solvers' point-of-view in Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007 was 2. IS MISSING. The pictures were supposed to lead you to the following:
magnesium (Mg) [the scales are weighing in 1 milligram]
aluminium (Al) [Al Bundy in Married with Children]
?
phosporous (P) [parking sign]
sulfur (S) [international maritime flag for the letter S]
This means that the symbol for silicon, Si, was missing, which also could be seen in the title of the question: IS MISSING! The questions was correctly answered by 67 % of the participants and was worth 1 point. Correct answer: i
Finalfältet kontaktat! (Finalists!)
The quiz masters have now been in contact with all finalists (and possible stand-ins) and we are now awaiting their final decision to participate or not. The information about all finalists will be published here on Klurbloggen as soon as the information will be released.
Monday, 15 January 2007
Hitta till Ultunesaren (Ultuna studentkår)
Ultuna Student Union has recently moved, which may make it harder to find. This link to Eniro (the answer to question 4 in Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2006) shows where on SLU Ultuna campus the union is. It is a map of parts Ultuna with the bordering road Hampus von Posts väg, and the miniature picture to the right of this text shows the shape of the house (which is on the non-Eniro searchable Johan Brauners väg 3).
Sunday, 14 January 2007
Glada dagar? (Happy days?)
Now the end is nigh, though there is a small chance to get hold of a few more answers for you last-minute solvers! We are entering the last day for Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007 and we will summarize the contest during the next week, which will end with the final on Sunday. Will we meet each other there?
Saturday, 13 January 2007
Känner du Jack? (Do you know Jack?)
Just like Jack Bauer in the tv series 24, time is running out for Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007. There is a slight differnce: Jack has only had 24 hours, whereas you still may have two days and eight hours to go. If Jack can solve the impossible, surely a few questions should not be any problem for you?
Friday, 12 January 2007
Dags att skicka in? (Time to send it?)
For all Swedes that want to be sure that the solution will arrive on time with the mail, it may be best to send it today. The possibility to hand in your answer personally at Ultunesaren's office on Monday night still remains and thereby getting a few more days of searching the head. Regardless of your decision, let us hope you do the right ones!
Thursday, 11 January 2007
Armkrok? (Brothers in Arms?)
Are you sitting with Ultunesaren and is (temporarily) stuck in Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007? Well, flip back a few pages and solve the magazine's crossword The Crossword Box of Pralines. The crossword is incidentally celebrating two years, and thus offers the double amount of prizes. A small correction is needed - 50 Across should be 51 Across. If you do not have access to the actual magazine, you can download the crossword on Ultunesaren's homepage (click on Tävling and search for Aktuella korsord). Good luck!
Wednesday, 10 January 2007
1000 besökare/visitors!
Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007 has just let the 1000th visitor pass through the virtual turnstyle on the Contest Page of the homepage of Ultunesaren! The visitors have arrived from over twenty countries on four continents.
Poststämpel (Post stamp)
Some quizzers have contacted us, worrying that their answer may be disqualified for not receiving a normal cancellation post stamp (it happens occasionally). Naturally this will not disqualify an answer, as long as the answer reaches the office of Ultunesaren by 7 p.m, Monday 15 January 2007 (local time, CET).
Tuesday, 9 January 2007
Klurendrejeriet in the media (part 8)
The Swedish University of Agrcultural Sciences has posted a message about Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007 on their internal news network.
Monday, 8 January 2007
Tvärgående information (Cross-question info)
It should come as no real surprise that the questions in Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007 has a common theme (food), but how many have noticed the cross-linked information between the riddles? Some questions even inform you about it (question 4), while others are only seen once they are (correctly) solved. Then again, this does not mean that there has to be a cross-link between any of the questions, as they are all individually written.
Sunday, 7 January 2007
Version 1.03
An updated version of Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007 [v1.03] will be made available on Ultunesaren's homepage, time permitting. Except for the addition to the Swedish version, no other changes has been made.
Klurendrejeriet in the media (part 7)
The web sites Bloggportalen and Billiga flyg has shown interest in Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007 and for that we are grateful, and thus supplying a link back.
Saturday, 6 January 2007
Mening upphittad! (Sentence recovered!)
Rättelse: (Fråga B) "... som förknippas med "den lilla"? Skriv ned den sista bokstaven i detta årtal."
The last sentence in the Swedish version of question B had disappeared, but is now recovered. Here is the official update (will be included in the next version):
Correction: (Question B, Swedish version only) "... som förknippas med "den lilla"? Skriv ned den sista bokstaven i detta årtal."
Flera lösningar? (Multiple solutions?)
"Varje gåta har ett (1) entydigt svar: ett tal, ett begrepp eller en bokstav. Om en fråga (mot förmodan) har ett flera möjliga lösningar, tag då det svar bäst passar in i totallösningen och tävlingens anda!"
Some quizzers have contacted us and wonder what to do if one has two answers that are equally good solutions to a question. If that truly is the case, just follow the rules that state:
"Every question has one (1) unambiguous answer: a number, letter or term. If a question (contrary to expectation) several possible solutions, then select the one that best fits in the final solution and the spirit of the contest!"
Friday, 5 January 2007
Observationer
* Läs reglerna för mer information om hur du lämnar in ditt svar.
Remember, remember the fifth of #######! There is still no snow on the ground, but do not let that deter you from solving riddles. Have a glass of mineral water instead, after all, keeping the _ _ in mind, there should be at least one question less to solve! And there would not be an effect without a cause, right? So scramble your causes together and continue solving - you have one week to go*!
* Read the rules for more information on submitting your solution.
Klurendrejeriet in the media (part 6)
Fler länder! (More countries!)
Today, two more countries were added to the long list of visitors at Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007: Italy and Switzerland. This means that this edition of the contest is the most international one so far, with visitors from over twenty countries.
Thursday, 4 January 2007
Bollplank (Bounce people)
Are you lost among all the questions? Are you sleepless (though not in Seattle) after a full day's hunt for the correct answers? In that case, here's an excellent tip: bounce people! There are two main types of bounce people: other team members and members in other teams. It may sound odd, but the two are equally important, since both most certainly will help you in your quest. With the scoring system Klurendrejeriet(TM) uses, it is better to trade an answer that one thinks is easy to get another "easy" (but unsolved nonetheless). That way you get help with the least possible sacrifice! The problem is to find the right people, but it is never to late to introduce the contest to one's friends or visit MeMaC, the official forum of the contest for all quizzers around the world.
Wednesday, 3 January 2007
Forumet fortfarande öppet (Forum still open)
Forumet: http://www.memac.de
The official forum for Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007, MeMaC, still offers quizzers to exchange hints and discuss the questions with other solvers. The honor code inside the forum is to not post any solutions, which also fits the solvers of Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007 quite well. The discussion is held in English and German.
The Forum: http://www.memac.de
Tuesday, 2 January 2007
Nya årets personlighet? (Man of the New Year?)
Lika svårt som för kungen i Hamlet kan det tyckas vara när man löser någon av gåtorna, när plötsligt en snilleblixt slår ner och lösningen framträder tydligare än någonting annat. Och visst är lösningen ofta nära till hands - i en film som Sällskapsresan 2: Snowroller, en låt som Tomten Lars (båda Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2006) eller en originalbilden till den kända kaviartuben (Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2005). Även i år finns det kopplingar till filmer, låtar och bilder - det gäller bara att hitta dem! Årets personlighet kan till exempel ses i musikvideon till en låt som startar [högerklicka och välj "Spara som"] och Publikfavoriten syns ju nästan överallt!
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below" Hamlet [3:3]
It may appear to be just as hard as it was for the king in Hamlet to solve one of the questions, when all of a sudden the solutions breaks through clearer than anything else. And the solution is often close at hand - in a movie like Sällskapsresan 2: Snowroller, in a song like Tomten Lars (both Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2006) or in the original picture to the famous Swedish caviar tube (Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2005). There are connections to movies, songs, and pictures this year as well - you just have to find them! The Man of the Year can be seen in the music video to the song that starts [right-click and choose "Save as"] and the Crowd Pleaser is seen almost everywhere.
Monday, 1 January 2007
Kluren 2007!
Here is the first picture of the trophy in Klurendrejeriet(TM) 2007, aptly named Kluren, which within three weeks will be presented to the winner of the contest. Just like previous years, it is manufactured by Hälle Krukmakeri outside Örnsköldsvik.