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.
Below is a list of ‘33 things wot you might find in New Zealand’ (‘things’ is used in its broadest possible sense). Entries have been stripped of vowels and numbers and have had any inter-word spaces repositioned*. For example, if Kiri Te Kanawa was present she might appear as KRT K NW. Kiwi would be KW.
*Hyphens are treated as spaces. Apostrophes are ignored.
1. NVRCRGLL
2. GRYWCK
3. P NFT HR F
4. TM TNG HR
5. W LBM
6. THL LWH TS
7. MRLBRG HSVGNNB LNC
8. THBL CKFL CNS
9. NGMRS H
10. LPNPR RTS
11. DTC TVKRS TNSMS
12. TRKK
13. THN LYR WRT HYV RN SNM K
14. JN HLM
15. LL LYCK
16. TTR
17. JNBT TN
18. BGTR
19. THDV LPRFR LLN GL NS
20. BGN D
21. TR R
22. SL VRFRNRL CR
23. FR DDF R
24. RG RNMC SNDRTHNS
25. MRPN M
26. THSC N DLC TDH DFGVR NMNTTG VBR THW H LNF F C
27. RCH NCMPLMNS
28. TNGWMM RL
29. BZ ZYB
30. THP NKN DWH TTR RCS
31. LRLHB BRD
32. P
33. TMTWHKTNGHNGKTMTTRPKKPKMNGHRNKPKWHNKTNTH
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s rithmetic foxers:
(328 – 228) * 8 = 800
(defoxing team: Colonel_K, AFKAMC, Zwack23, Nutfield)
2358 – 1000 + (38 * 16) = 1966
(defoxing team: Viscount, Colonel_K, Nutfield, Electric Dragon)
300 * 31 + 97 – 1919 – 7000 – 473 = 5
(defoxing team: Alison, Colonel_K, Phlebas)
1 – INVERCARGILL
6 – THE ALL WHITES (nickname for the football team)
8 – THE BLACK FALCONS (NZ air force display team)
30. THE PINK AND WHITE TERRACES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_and_White_Terraces
22. SILVER FERN RAILCAR
2 – GREYWACKE
https://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/Learning/Science-Topics/NZ-Geology/New-Zealand-s-Rocks/Eastern-greywacke-basement
33: TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEATURIPUKAKAPIKIMAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU
33. This place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangi%C2%ADhangakoauauotamatea%C2%ADturipukakapikimaunga%C2%ADhoronukupokaiwhen%C2%ADuakitanatahu
7 – MARLBOROUGH SAUVIGNON BLANC
9. NGAIO MARSH
33 – TAUMATAWAHKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEATURIPUKAKAPIKIMAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU
9 – NGAIO MARSH
10 – ALPINE PARROTS
29. BUZZY BEE: https://www.kiwishoponline.com.au/eshop/Buzzy-Bee-Pull-Along-Toy.html
26 THE SECOND ELECTED HEAD OF GOVERNMENT TO GIVE BIRTH WHILE IN OFFICE
(Benazir Bhutto was first)
14: JONAH LOMU
11 – DETECTIVE KRISTIN SIMS
https://thebrokenwoodmysteries.com/kristin-sims
31. LAUREL HUBBARD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Hubbard
13. THE ONLY AIR-WORTHY AVRO ANSON Mk. I
15. LOLLY CAKE
16. TUATARA
17. JEAN BATTEN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Batten
32. Pāua
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81ua
Good one! Poi would work too.
19. THE DEVIL-PROOF ROLLING LIONS
or possibly not.
NOT.
So close!
THE DEVELOPER OF ROLLING LINE(s)
https://www.gaugepunk.com/rolling-line/
3. PANIA OF THE REEF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pania
28. TANGIWAI MEMORIAL: https://mch.govt.nz/nz-identity-heritage/national-monuments-war-graves/tangiwai-memorial
20. BAG END
I knew there’d be some Hobbit business
Indeed. I kept trying to get Frodo something something out of 23.
5. WOOL BOOM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_wool_boom
24. ROGERNOMICS AND RUTHANASIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogernomics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthanasia
12. TREKKA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trekka
21. TE ARAROA
https://www.teararoa.org.nz/
Still to go, I think:
4. TM TNG HR
18. BGTR
23. FR DDF R
25. MRPN M
27. RCH NCMPLMNS
25. MERE POUNAMU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pounamu
The only other things I associate with New Zealand:
– something else from Peter Jackson’s back catalogue
– Kim Dotcom, or his current reincarnation, Gabe Newell
– Xena: Warrior Princess
4. TE MATUA NGAHERE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Matua_Ngahere