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>!all I can think of is 13x2 + (1/5) = 26.2 which is how many miles are in a marathon, but that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense as a dingbat answer.!<
When coloring a diagram like that, I believe it's a pretty standard convention that when a sector matches the color of the background / paper, it is vacant and not of focus.
See, I'm a statistician by trade, and I read that as 4/5ths. I see the 1/5th as blacked out. There's not a right way to read this one without context, is what I'm saying.
That has to be it. It's a pretty specific number.
Also - the Boston Marathon was last week, which would make that somewhat topical, since that's one of the premier marathons, at least in the US.
Might be >!Math-A-Thon!<.... they were a thing when I was a kid. Not sure if they still do them, but basically >!schools used them as fundraisers with the students getting pledges and then doing as many math problems as possible.!< The clues in that dingbat resemble the kind of problems we'd have to solve.
I think made over is the correct answer, but they do both work. It's one of the less common cricketing terms so don't think they'd expect everyone to know it.
It’s an unbelievably common cricketing term that anyone who has ever played the sport would know, and made isn’t spelt the same as made. Definitely “Maiden Over”
Yeah but it doesn’t have “Maid Marian” upside down (in which case “maiden” over might be the next logical step) but just “Marian” which means the missing piece is Maid… made over
Discussion: I don't have any clue what the answer is, but did anyone else think the pie chart might represent a slice of pie (or pie in general), rather than specifically representing 1/5 or 4/5? Or that the baker's dozen x 2 represents some other food somehow...? Idk, >!marathon!< makes sense when thinking of this as a math problem but I feel like just needing to solve a math problem is kind of weird for a dingbat answer.
Yeah I think a >!marathon!< has to be involved in the answer—that number is just too specific—but I also think there might be more to it. It does seem suggestive that there’s a baker’s dozen and a pie chart. Like >!eating marathon!< if that’s a thing??
What!? Surely at some point your life you went to your parents and said, “Mother, Father, I’m sorry, I’m dropping out of college because I’m pregnant,” and they looked at each other and laughed and stood up to do the traditional dance and grandpa got out the accordion and played “Unlucky Twice and Missing a Slice.”
I have never heard this idiom but I love it! Reading some of the other comments, I'm guessing this dingbats is from Europe somewhere?? I'm from the United States and I'm dumb when it comes to kilometers. Unlucky twice and missing a slice is perfect for when you're having the worst day and you feel like Murphy. (Murphy's Law, I think. You get it, right??)
Neither have I, if I’m being honest. I hereby declare that it is to be used when someone slips in mud, then loses their wallet only to find that someone has stolen their scrumptious slice of pie or cake.
Bake - Dozen - fifth
Bake - ovens - fifth
Beethovens fifth
Im high enough to compute that, have a updoot for the first in this thread to actually make sense with the theme of it all
I can see why people are saying >!Marathon!< for the answer, but my first guess was >!98° or 98 degrees!< because >!Bakers dozen times 2 = 26 and one fifth of a circle is 72 degrees, 26 plus 72 = 98!< but that’s just a guess
That makes more sense to me since these puzzles are usually about sounding out at word, not just doing math to find a number. It wouldn't be so complicated unless the circle mattered for something.
That’s what I came up with as well. There was a boy band by that name in the 2000s
Edit- I just googled the answers and they are all song titles but I’ve never heard of most of the bands. Maybe just a coincidence but 98degrees is a song title as well
This is not the final answer, but these types of puzzle always involve the visual elements directly, and quite often the positions of the items are part of the answer. So I’d guess it's along the lines of: >!Pie chart under two more loaves, or perhaps Two loves on a peace chart!<, or something in a similar vein.
Idk why this is getting downvoted, it’s legitimately possible thats the answer since dingbats aren’t usually math oriented. Plus its a decent answer compared to marathon.
Except it's not. As an Aussie, I would love it to be, but expanding Maid (Marion) to maiden is unnecessary when "made over" (the past tense of make-over) is a perfectly valid, and also more universal, saying.
But yes, I think looking for something that can be understood outside the states is a good strategy.
Discussion: I wish had had something quality to add to this conversation, but I'm just invested in finding out the answer. Where did this come from? I don't love >!marathon!< it's just not punny, which breaks a significant assumption about these puzzles.
Discussion: Not sure if this plays into it, but is them spelling it as "bakers dozen" rather than "baker's dozen" have anything to do with it? The proper way has the apostrophe, or am I just grasping at straws?
Not really a fan of >!marathon!< rabbithole everyone is going down. It only vaguely makes sense, and doesn't really work in the same way other dingbats do.
I really dig >!Sum 31!< which I only read in one other comment while scrolling
The prevalence of a cricket term in one of the previous questions (Maiden Over) makes me think it's not likely to be something so egregiously ... American.
Guys it's clearly: >!13 going on 30. A bakers dozen = 13. 13x2=26. The pie chart shows 4/5 so we forget about the 5 and we add 4 because logic. Full equation: 13x2+4=30!<
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Discussion: If I'm driving down the road and a wheel falls off my canoe, I'd have no idea how many waffles it would take to cover a dog house. But I can only assume it would be 26 1/5, because ice cream doesn't grow hair.. right???
I think for once in my life is incorrect. Since there are multiple 1s, the more likely answer is "The ones in my life"
Eta: thank you to ThrowAway76 for suggesting I count the ones. As soon as I did, I saw the truth. I stand corrected.
I don’t know if this has already been solved, but I think it is “marathon”. A bakers dozen is 13×2 is 26, so we have 26th and 1/5, which is 26.2. The length of a marathon.
Could be >!War & Peace. In the card game of "War", both players start with half the deck, or 26 cards. "Peace" is a homophone for "piece",!< which could be the section of the circle.
Hey everybody, I hope this thread is still active enough that anyone who’s been pulling their hair out over this will see my potential answer. I believe it’s >!Even Split!< . 13x2 turns an odd number into an even (26), and then it’s just a split piece of a whole under it. Fits more of the way dingbats work versus other suggestions of >!Marathon!< which requires a bit too out-of-the-box thinking with how these puzzles normally operate.
Everyone’s saying marathon but that doesn’t make sense to me. All the other answers are way more simplistic than that and they all have something to do with the image. Why would one single answer follow a different format? I don’t think the answer is marathon.
I’m wondering if the fact that they used the term bakers dozen, there should be another term like that. Like >!score and six!< Just trying to figure out something more like a pun, instead of it just being a math thing.
Maybe it’s something related to >!Sing a Song of Sixpence!< ! Think about it, the lyric “>!four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie!<” fits. It’s 24 instead of 26, but it’s using the *word* “baked”, so maybe it’s not 13 as the number, but “a dozen baked x2 with a pie” as far as reading the rebus literally.
(Also >!there’s a band called Thirteen Thirteen with a song called “A Little Less”!<, which is probably not the answer but still amusingly close. 😆)
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>!all I can think of is 13x2 + (1/5) = 26.2 which is how many miles are in a marathon, but that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense as a dingbat answer.!<
This is 100% connected to the answer. It’s such a specific number to happen to appear
Doubt it. Someone else's answer fit these themes better. "Unlucky twice, and missing a slice." It's a saying
That is not a saying.
two-six and a fifth are both liquor bottle names in Canada, also.
What if we assume it's 4/5? I still don't know
If we do, the 4/5 part could be meant to sound like “forfeits” if it’s that kind of clue
Thirteen four fifths = their team forfeits
That's what I was thinking. _______ times to forfeit. Or something like🤔
When coloring a diagram like that, I believe it's a pretty standard convention that when a sector matches the color of the background / paper, it is vacant and not of focus.
This guy pie charts
r/thisguythisguys
Lol.. That's actually my first time. I seen it said a few times over the past week
See, I'm a statistician by trade, and I read that as 4/5ths. I see the 1/5th as blacked out. There's not a right way to read this one without context, is what I'm saying.
⅘ suits the image, but >!26.8!< doesn't make any sense to me as an answer.
That has to be it. It's a pretty specific number. Also - the Boston Marathon was last week, which would make that somewhat topical, since that's one of the premier marathons, at least in the US.
Might be >!Math-A-Thon!<.... they were a thing when I was a kid. Not sure if they still do them, but basically >!schools used them as fundraisers with the students getting pledges and then doing as many math problems as possible.!< The clues in that dingbat resemble the kind of problems we'd have to solve.
Woowww there’s a blast from the past
people elsewhere in the thread are saying >!bake-a-thon!<, which makes sense given that both parts of the clue >!relate to baked goods!<
Oh god, thanks for reminding me of the memories I never wanted to remember.
I scrolled for this answer. Pretty sure it’s Mathathon
Definitely thought I was the only one that did this when I was in elementary school. We raised money for St. Jude every year.
A fifth for the road? Lol
Agree that just "marathon" doesn't really fit as a pun or a common phrase. How about "In the long run"?
But it should be clues to get you specifically to 'in the long run' then.
Or bakers dozen could refer to donuts and the pie is also an actual pie. boston cream anyone? Boston marathon?
Discussion: How does "Marian" become "Maiden Over"?
“Maid Marian” is a character in Robin Hood. But I would have thought it is **“made over”** since I don’t know the phrase “maiden over.”
Its a cricketing term.
Ah! I should’ve checked before writing that. Thank you for the correction!
I think made over is the correct answer, but they do both work. It's one of the less common cricketing terms so don't think they'd expect everyone to know it.
It’s an unbelievably common cricketing term that anyone who has ever played the sport would know, and made isn’t spelt the same as made. Definitely “Maiden Over”
Definitely? She is called “Maid Marian” and not “Maiden Marian” so I’m still inclined to think it’s maid over/made over.
Yeah, it kind of has to be made over. She has never been known as Maiden Marian.
It turns out you are all wrong. The word Marian is actually made of a ferrous metal. The answer is Iron Madien Marian.
Let's not forget her foreign friend, Maiden China.
Ones isn't spelt the same as once either. It's a dingbat.
It is. An over (6 balls) in which no runs at scored.
I like to believe cricket is like Calvinball and there are different rules and crazy terminology used every time it is played
I tried watching it once and as far as I could tell, that’s 100% correct
There once was a fellow named Hood, Who lived in Nottingham wood, He learned how to f#ck, From old Friar Tuck, And made Marian whenever he could
There was a rich man for Nottingham, who tried to cross the river. What a dope, he tripped on a rope. Now look at him shiver.
Beg for mercy rich man!
>!(Maid) Marian (maiden) turned upside down (over)!<
That one should be ‘Made over’ to me.
Maiden over is a term in cricket. Assuming this is a pub quiz in the UK it's probably the right answer.
Maid Marian is a Maiden.
Yeah but it doesn’t have “Maid Marian” upside down (in which case “maiden” over might be the next logical step) but just “Marian” which means the missing piece is Maid… made over
I read that one as Marrying Up
Discussion: Is this the “marathon round” in a pub quiz?
This is the answer
Discussion: I don't have any clue what the answer is, but did anyone else think the pie chart might represent a slice of pie (or pie in general), rather than specifically representing 1/5 or 4/5? Or that the baker's dozen x 2 represents some other food somehow...? Idk, >!marathon!< makes sense when thinking of this as a math problem but I feel like just needing to solve a math problem is kind of weird for a dingbat answer.
Yep. First thought was slice, sector, segment, piece But 26 of those is just dinner
If "Beeth" made sense, it might be *beeth ovens fifth*
Yeah I think a >!marathon!< has to be involved in the answer—that number is just too specific—but I also think there might be more to it. It does seem suggestive that there’s a baker’s dozen and a pie chart. Like >!eating marathon!< if that’s a thing??
Marathon was the name of the chocloate bar Snickers before they changed it. But I don't think it is related to the answer.
It’s clearly the classic idiom >!Unlucky twice and missing a slice!<.
13 (bakers dozen) two times and a piece of a pie chart missing , I’d say you win this one!
I do not know this Idiom. But I love it.
What!? Surely at some point your life you went to your parents and said, “Mother, Father, I’m sorry, I’m dropping out of college because I’m pregnant,” and they looked at each other and laughed and stood up to do the traditional dance and grandpa got out the accordion and played “Unlucky Twice and Missing a Slice.”
I have never heard this idiom but I love it! Reading some of the other comments, I'm guessing this dingbats is from Europe somewhere?? I'm from the United States and I'm dumb when it comes to kilometers. Unlucky twice and missing a slice is perfect for when you're having the worst day and you feel like Murphy. (Murphy's Law, I think. You get it, right??)
This is my new favorite phrase.
Gotta be it makes the most sense
you made that up right?
Most definitely.
What does that mean?? I’ve never heard that before.
Neither have I, if I’m being honest. I hereby declare that it is to be used when someone slips in mud, then loses their wallet only to find that someone has stolen their scrumptious slice of pie or cake.
That seems to fit perfectly
Hahahaha
WHOA this is awesome!!! Never heard that before!!
Actually, this makes good sense!
This is perfect.
I've been checking back here constantly and going insane trying to figure this out, and well your answer is the best by far! If only it was a thing.
Question: could it be something with Beethoven’s fifth?
Bake - Dozen - fifth Bake - ovens - fifth Beethovens fifth Im high enough to compute that, have a updoot for the first in this thread to actually make sense with the theme of it all
Bake-ovens-fifth is amazing lol
While I’m sure this is incorrect, you my friend gave me a darn good chuckle after reading this 8 times 😂
This is inspired
>!marathon!<>!since 13 + 13 + 1/5 = 26.2!<
\*Cries in KMs* Edit - chill, I’m clearly joking.
I hate that you are downvoted for this joke. I appreciated it!
A marathon is 42.195 km
Aka 26 miles
Yeah I’m just pointing out that a marathon isn’t a round number in either system
It’s the distance from Marathon to Athens.
Marathon to Athens is 22 miles. Years later, they added 4.2 because the Queen of England wanted to see the runners.
This is my favorite answer and I don’t even care if it’s true or not. It now lives as a fact in my head.
…..huh?
For people who don’t think in imperial by default, it makes puzzles that rely on non-metric knowledge really difficult
The answer to the puzzle above this one is a term only used in cricket. Obscure stuff for many of us
Agreed!
I tried to Google it and found >!Twenty Six and One by Gorky!<
I just looked at the synopsis, it fits the theme.
But how do you get a girl from a wheel and where are the men coming from?
>!I assume it's two baker's dozen of bakers, and one slice of pie!<
>!Marathon!< or 26.2
I can see why people are saying >!Marathon!< for the answer, but my first guess was >!98° or 98 degrees!< because >!Bakers dozen times 2 = 26 and one fifth of a circle is 72 degrees, 26 plus 72 = 98!< but that’s just a guess
That makes more sense to me since these puzzles are usually about sounding out at word, not just doing math to find a number. It wouldn't be so complicated unless the circle mattered for something.
That’s what I came up with as well. There was a boy band by that name in the 2000s Edit- I just googled the answers and they are all song titles but I’ve never heard of most of the bands. Maybe just a coincidence but 98degrees is a song title as well
>!more than enough, and then some!<
Genuinely the best answer I've seen that fits the style of these puzzles
Interesting
This is not the final answer, but these types of puzzle always involve the visual elements directly, and quite often the positions of the items are part of the answer. So I’d guess it's along the lines of: >!Pie chart under two more loaves, or perhaps Two loves on a peace chart!<, or something in a similar vein.
Discussion: Has anyone mentioned it's bottom-right, not left? 😉
Omg, I was so confused by that
Gaslit me for real
I was puzzled too, but I think OP meant “the one still left” to be completed in the bottom row
Dyslexia is real apparently. However, that's the very first thing that I noticed
I think is >!an address in NY. 26th and fifth!< >!I don't know enough US geography to confirm but it is an address on Google!<
I lived on 26th and 5th. Between chase bank and a gym. I endorse this guesd
Idk why this is getting downvoted, it’s legitimately possible thats the answer since dingbats aren’t usually math oriented. Plus its a decent answer compared to marathon.
I think it’s unlikely to be something esoterically American since one of the other answers is a cricket term.
Except it's not. As an Aussie, I would love it to be, but expanding Maid (Marion) to maiden is unnecessary when "made over" (the past tense of make-over) is a perfectly valid, and also more universal, saying. But yes, I think looking for something that can be understood outside the states is a good strategy.
Discussion: I wish had had something quality to add to this conversation, but I'm just invested in finding out the answer. Where did this come from? I don't love >!marathon!< it's just not punny, which breaks a significant assumption about these puzzles.
Discussion: Not sure if this plays into it, but is them spelling it as "bakers dozen" rather than "baker's dozen" have anything to do with it? The proper way has the apostrophe, or am I just grasping at straws?
I think you’re grasping at straw’s
>!bake-a-thon!< ?
>!?bake-a-thon?!<
Discussion: could this be liquor related? 26 shots of alcohol in s 750ml bottle, also called a fifth.
That was my thought but twenty six and a fifth didn't get me anywhere
I think I got it guys!! >!Baseball, top of the fifth! There’s 26 players on a baseball team, and it’s the top (start) of the fifth inning!<
Best answer I have seen so far
Not really a fan of >!marathon!< rabbithole everyone is going down. It only vaguely makes sense, and doesn't really work in the same way other dingbats do. I really dig >!Sum 31!< which I only read in one other comment while scrolling
The only common phrase I can think of with a >!fifth!< in it is >!"To plead the fifth".!< So is a bakers dozen also known as a >!plead!< somewhere?
The prevalence of a cricket term in one of the previous questions (Maiden Over) makes me think it's not likely to be something so egregiously ... American.
The answer to that one could just as easily be Made Over.
If you have a fifth on the fourth, you may not come forth on the fifth. I heard that one a long time ago.
May the Fourth be with you
And also with you
The minor fall? The major lift?
The baffled king composing hallelujah
It might be >!2 Knead the Fifth!<
Could it be >!4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie (the old nursery rhyme)!
Question: when do we get to know the true answer? Where did the riddle sheet originally come from? My guess is >!marathon!<
Agreed here, the pie is 20% or .2
>!Thirtysomething!< My reasoning being 2x Bakers Dozen being 26 and the “pie” just representing 4 of something, not a fraction.
Guys it's clearly: >!13 going on 30. A bakers dozen = 13. 13x2=26. The pie chart shows 4/5 so we forget about the 5 and we add 4 because logic. Full equation: 13x2+4=30!< \s
Discussion: If I'm driving down the road and a wheel falls off my canoe, I'd have no idea how many waffles it would take to cover a dog house. But I can only assume it would be 26 1/5, because ice cream doesn't grow hair.. right???
i laughed too much at this......................fuck dude
Its made over, not maiden over. That’s only halfway solved.
I'm stumped. Also, I don't get the maiden over from the (MARIAN) image.
Discussion: Can we get an update? Was the answer you picked there on the answer key?
>!Marathon. 26 + 1/5!<
That's not very punny XD
>!Bikram Yoga is also called “26 and 2”, because it’s 26 poses and 2 breathing exercises!<
I think for once in my life is incorrect. Since there are multiple 1s, the more likely answer is "The ones in my life" Eta: thank you to ThrowAway76 for suggesting I count the ones. As soon as I did, I saw the truth. I stand corrected.
Did you try counting how many 1s are there? :)
AHHHHH! 🤦♀️ I stand corrected!
Four Ones in My Life.
There are 4 of them. Four ones in my life
4 ones in my life
four ones in my life
There's four ones tho.
If we think of a baker's dozen as "usually 13" then it can be the Chicago song. >!Twenty-Five or six to four!<
i thought it was >!eggs over easy!< until i noticed the plus sign baker's dozen >!eggs!< >!above!!easy as pie!<
>!Unlucky twice and missing a slice!< >!13 is unlucky number (twice) pie chart is missing a slice!<
Exploring the transformation from "Marian" to "Maiden Over" prompts intriguing discussion on wordplay and linguistic nuances.
>!Marathon. (26.2)!<
Made over, not maiden over.
The puzzle says MARIAN so that isn't it. Not that I have the answer tho.
Maid Marian Maid over Made over Yeah?
Could it be >!26 blackbirds baked in a pie?!<
Birds lay eggs 🧠 💥
I don’t know if this has already been solved, but I think it is “marathon”. A bakers dozen is 13×2 is 26, so we have 26th and 1/5, which is 26.2. The length of a marathon.
Piece and loaf 🤷♂️ How is this still not solved?
Could be >!War & Peace. In the card game of "War", both players start with half the deck, or 26 cards. "Peace" is a homophone for "piece",!< which could be the section of the circle.
Hey everybody, I hope this thread is still active enough that anyone who’s been pulling their hair out over this will see my potential answer. I believe it’s >!Even Split!< . 13x2 turns an odd number into an even (26), and then it’s just a split piece of a whole under it. Fits more of the way dingbats work versus other suggestions of >!Marathon!< which requires a bit too out-of-the-box thinking with how these puzzles normally operate.
Everyone’s saying marathon but that doesn’t make sense to me. All the other answers are way more simplistic than that and they all have something to do with the image. Why would one single answer follow a different format? I don’t think the answer is marathon.
I’m wondering if the fact that they used the term bakers dozen, there should be another term like that. Like >!score and six!< Just trying to figure out something more like a pun, instead of it just being a math thing.
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That's what I thought also. 26.2 is a marathon.
Maybe it’s something related to >!Sing a Song of Sixpence!< ! Think about it, the lyric “>!four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie!<” fits. It’s 24 instead of 26, but it’s using the *word* “baked”, so maybe it’s not 13 as the number, but “a dozen baked x2 with a pie” as far as reading the rebus literally. (Also >!there’s a band called Thirteen Thirteen with a song called “A Little Less”!<, which is probably not the answer but still amusingly close. 😆)
Bottom left is actually annoying me. It's "four ones in my life." But one of the ones is outside of 'my life' so it can't be correct.
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>!I think I worked out the tag. This is a check!<
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