Every Friday at 1300 hours, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers. Don’t be shy. All are welcome to participate.
Rithmetic foxers are equations disguised as picture sequences. Each pic in the three specimens below represents a number or fraction (For example a photo of The Flying Scotsman might signify 4472, 462, or 3). It’s your job to identify the mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication or division) indicated by the lettered squares. The BIDMAS rule applies. If a solution involves brackets or indices, Roman will mention it.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s hive foxer theme: skin (defoxed by Nutfield)
butterfly (Nutfield)
dandruff (ylla, Nutfield)
degloving (ylla)
deq (ylla)
dive (Nutfield)
drum (Nutfield)
fitzpatrick scale (Colonel_K/Nutfield)
fore (Nutfield, Colonel_K)
graft (Nutfield)
hypodermis (Colonel_K)
james allen (Nutfield)
onion (Nutfield)
shagreen (ylla)
tight (Nutfield)
vellum (Nutfield)
vitiligo (Colonel_K)
wine (Nutfield)
xipe totec (Colonel_K)
Red = Flooding of Venice, 1966 – https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Alluvione_di_Venezia_del_1966.jpg
Red D-E looks like the same location (White posts surrounding it) as the photo on the main page of the Type 97 Japanese tank exhibit, but the tracks look different, Looks like a Merc logo too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_97_Chi-Ha_medium_tank#/media/File:Type_97_Chi-Ha_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_Museum_5-jun-2014.jpg
PzKpfw 38(t) Ausf F
Not the actual image(maybe Google StreetView ?), but close to it:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PzKpfw_38(t)_Ausf_F_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_Museum_5-jun-2014_Side.jpg
Blue left of A – Part of a Boeing 777 fell on a house in Denver.
United Airlines Flight 328 (February 20, 2021)
Red E to = is a Gaelic Football stadium, so could it be Croke Park’s old Hill 16 stand? (Named after 1916 Easter Rising)
I can’t find the exact photo but looks pretty similar (e.g. the picture here: https://www.independent.ie/sport/covid-19-crisis-means-gaa-cant-afford-to-wait-for-hse-advice-on-the-blindingly-obvious-39037688.html ) . Was originally known as Hill 60 after the Ypres battlefield.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3615123,-6.2517615,3a,48.8y,67.82h,87.44t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipN1d4EKiz73AF0jCx-zDH1UkTKLUx_OhHKDW1rQ!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipN1d4EKiz73AF0jCx-zDH1UkTKLUx_OhHKDW1rQ%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya357.53455-ro-0-fo100!7i11264!8i3542
31 degrees here, too hot to think… Logging off for now!
Blue, second panel: An F86 Sabre
Don´t know the museum -yet.
Might be a MiG-17? The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has one, and also a submarine (USS Growler, SSG-577).
Think I might have it: it is a MiG-17.
But it’s at Battleship Memorial Park, home to both USS Alabama (BB-60) and USS Drum (SS-228) – the photo was taken from USS Drum I think.
So: 17, 60 or 228.
Seems legit
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.6813086,-88.0168244,2a,75y,83.6h,79.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKHJzziyR02tjN6cLZtuvSw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Blue, after = is the 2020 film “The Eight Hundred”
( UA flight 328 minus SS-228 ) multiplied by Nagoya Grampus Eight equals The Eight Hundred
(328 – 228) x 8 = 800
Purple G to H: Nike Air Max 97
Purple between J and = would fall under the category ‘Compactor’. In this case ‘landfill compactor’ or ‘landfill compaction vehicle’, but I guess it’s the model number we’re after.
I think the manufacturer is Bomag and the penultimate digit is going to be 7, but beyond that…
Could be 572, 573, 672, 673, 772, 972, etc
“Bomag launched its new refuse compactor BC 473 RB-4 in Málaga, south of Spain.”
Red, left of C is Amsterdam
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.376772,4.9043707,3a,75y,257.53h,95.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shgi-fXM2n14aHxiThzADPw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
but I’ve no idea what number is required: the moped? Odebrug bridge? Saint Nicholas’ Basilica?
I can’t find anything more likely than the basilica. Probably 73 or 1887 then?
Purple between h and i: 1919
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30945/la-bataille-dorel-octobre-1919
Thing between b and = on the top line is the supposed grampus dolphin from the logo of the Japanese football team, Nagoya Grampus, formerly Nagoya Grampus Eight. It’s supposed to be the dolphin from the top of Nagoya castle, even though Wikipedia has those as shachi, not grampuses (grampi?), and the logo clearly shows a killer whale wearing a crown and spoiling for a fight so it’s a jumbled picture, overall.
WordPress insists on downsizing these images which makes things harder than intended. To see the original images you need to open them in a new tab and remove the dimensions from the end of the link…
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Roman tells me the number in red1 doesn’t relate to the basilica, bikes, or mopeds.
The bridge in Red 1 is the Odebrug bridge which has the bridge number 2358, or was opened in 2011.
Purple 5 is here in New York, not worked out the significance of the circled stumps yet – https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7471537,-74.0049588,3a,57y,77.28h,88.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBg-FClz5oyM6UWUa0QQk1g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Aha – they are part of Joseph Beuys’ 7000 Oaks art project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7000_Oaks
“The Dia Art Foundation maintain 37 trees paired with stones in New York City and consider this installation of 7000 Oaks one of their 11 locations and sites they manage.”
Purple after =
Looking across the top: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 bells
– Five Bells?
Five Bells.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.475323,-0.0469431,3a,49.2y,35.33h,98.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sx-NWErDJep1tuYPH3maUBw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
The first two elements in Purple make ‘negative 28’ (!)
(-28 * Nike Air Max 97 – Orel 1919 + 7000 Oaks ) / Bomag 473 = Five Bells
But we’re not allowed brackets and I don’t understand BIDMAS…
“The first two elements in Purple make ‘negative 28’”
Roman begs to differ.
Purple, between f and g: Legananny Portal Tomb or dolmen
Also, Irish Moiled Cow on a 31p stamp
For the love of sanity, I hope that cow is close-by and not actually that big.
*These* cows are small…
For some reason I missed last Friday’s update! Doing a bit of defoxing, the helicopter in the first purple image is the HAL Dhruv. The image is listed on wiki as being part of the February 25 celebration of its 300th order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Dhruv
This looks good…
300 * 31 + 97 – 1919 – 7000 – 473 = 5