Yorkshire Pyramid - Solved!

[Happyhannah]

Oooh, that's a good one!

I think SonicWarp should provide a prize for the best alternative password!

I got as far as shells in my first tries at this one (before I thought about knots!) but did't get anywhere near that.

In my failure-paranoia as we were driving up to Yorkshire on Saturday I said to Evilkeen: "What if there was a mistake in the coding and the password checker got it wrong?!"

... and he replied that he was SURE the passwork checker got it wrong when he tried HIS answer! I'm sure I would have thought the same, especially if I had an answer that fitted as nicely as skryabin!

[Mystique]

I also followed the route of the artillery loop and looked at "Manharness", but really didn't think it was going to lead me to anything relevant.

Like many of you out there, we (myself and Smartybones ... the other half) tried several passwords along the way.

We were so convinced we had cracked the password this time, that we decided to go to the location as there were various combinations of spellings which would have taken what would have seemed like an eternity using the online checker.

Mr and Mrs Doc were very welcoming and excited for us because the letters in the password could have been a possibility.

I looked at other words for artillery round and came up with battery.
Battery park is in New York and it is home to the "Sphere". This is a sculpture which was damaged by the devastion of 9/11 as it stood between the twin towers. It was rescued although in quite poor state and temporarily housed in battery park. Looking further into "The Sphere" revealed that the original name for this was "Karyatide", which is a greek sculptured female figure serving as an architectural support. So I figured that was the "truth" relating to ladies.

But alas, like most of you, it was incorrect.

The ironic thing is, because Ade asked me to spell my password, I believed that maybe my word was close in spelling to the required word.
It is not too dissimilar!!!

It is well worth a visit to Bedale ... Angela has some beautiful items in her shop, and it makes a fabulous day out.

We were short on time when we visited, but are looking forward to returning, this time with the "Daughter", who already has a shopping list !!!


Many congratulations again to Hannah

[ChadH]

Thanks for the story Hannah and again, congratulations.
I'm actually really chuffed as I worked a lot of this riddle out correctly.

Annoyingly though, I was looking for Silver Hill instead of Silver Dale, and never did get as far as He-Man.

What's more annoying though is some time after this pyramid came out, I introduced my 5 yr old son and his friends to the wonder that is He Man. We actually watched the episode where Skeletor found out that Korodite was the source of He Man's power and got some for himself.

Wish I'd been paying more attention

[Dr Iguana]

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[evilkeen]

We had started the day in Leyburn ... After that it was a shortlist of two or three shops in Leyburn and Bedale...

*cough*

And Hawes, and Redmire, and Castle Bolton...

Yes, well ... the very nice lady in 'Past & Presents' in Leyburn (who was very helpful after getting over the initial shock of two random people asking about pyramids) said 'end of the line ... has to be Hawes' ... so we went to Hawes. And had a nice lunch there it has to be said ... And well, Redmire and Castle Bolton were on the way then ... but the shortlist was definitely just Leyburn and Bedale !!!

[evilkeen]

And finally, to make the joke that many must have thought of after Cornett

[cornettracing80]

Oh..OH..man, i am sorry Doc..thats not what i meant at all!!!!
ahh boy,no backpeddaling from that then is there?

[Driver]

Its amazing how far off track you can get and still have your findings make sense.

This is a clue of nots and knots,
Is this the end of the line for
Wallace's favourite cheese?
Take the low road to the golden valley?
Tell the ladies the truth about the artillery round?

I had gone down several avenues including a glance at the man harness thing but my latest one was that the clue was used twice.

This is a clue of nots and knots,

This is a statement.

Is this the end of the line for Wallace

[thelightjockey]

What has amazed me for so long is the fact that no-one had linked the appearance of a new pyramid in the general area of a free search.

Picked up on this a while back, and I'm sure it's been on the PM circuit for a while now.

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Congrats to Hannah...

We've had transformers, thomas the tank engine, and now he-man: thundercats next?

[haggis]

We've had transformers, thomas the tank engine, and now he-man: thundercats next?

Funny you should say that, I stumbled accross a possible link to a children's cartoon when I was looking at another pyramid some time back. Maybe I should look into it again...

Haggis

[yorkshire_pudding]

Congratulations Hannah, its great to have the password cracked even if it means I'll now have to focus my efforts on a pyramid further afield.

YP

[evilkeen]

I see the news has reached the front page of the French ISIS website:

http://www.aventureisis.fr/index.html

It's a shame it doesn't figure even on the news page of the English site

[Happyhannah]

Yes, I had a message earlier today asking if they could put my picture and story on there.

Pity I don't understand French, really... they could be saying anything about me!

The only bit of that I can read is: "Click here for a large image"

[evilkeen]

My French is also quite limited, but don't worry it's all very nice as far as I can see. According to the translator they say you are beautiful (which I would concur with of course)

[Happyhannah]

If that's the translator that gave you the translation you sent me, I wouldn't believe a word of it!

"then she put of good shoes and the here left for the Yorkshire to the research of his pyramid"

Hmm. It sounds like one of PUZZ's riddles :S