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Seemingly Senseless Summations
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Decipher the following "seemingly senseless summations" in order to figure out the secret message:
Olympic rings +
hours +
clover leaves +
Olympic rings +
months +
months +
Olympic rings +
fortnight +
score
chromosomes (humans) +
ides of March +
holes on a golf course +
soccer players
fortnight +
baseball players +
clover leaves +
Olympic rings +
months +
squares on a bingo card (U.S.)
suits +
ides of March +
fortnight +
Olympic rings
Olympic rings +
hours +
clover leaves +
Olympic rings +
months +
months +
Olympic rings +
fortnight +
score
chromosomes (humans) +
ides of March +
holes on a golf course +
soccer players
fortnight +
baseball players +
clover leaves +
Olympic rings +
months +
squares on a bingo card (U.S.)
suits +
ides of March +
fortnight +
Olympic rings
Answer
Derive the correct number for each clue, then take the letter of the alphabet whose ordinal position matches this number (i.e. a=1, b=2, c=3, etc.).The following shows the correct numbers for each clue, and their corresponding letters which are pieced or summed together to form the answer words which make up the secret message:
Letter <== Ordinal position of letter in alphabet <== Clue
e <== 5 <== Olympic rings +
x <== 24 <== hours (in a day) +
c <== 3 <== clover leaves +
e <== 5 <== Olympic rings +
l <== 12 <== months (in a year) +
l <== 12 <== months (in a year) +
e <== 5 <== Olympic rings +
n <== 14 <== fortnight (fourteen nights and days) +
t <== 20 <== score (as in a group or set of 20)
w <== 23 <== chromosomes (humans have this many pairs) +
o <== 15 <== ides of March (the fifteenth day of March) +
r <== 18 <== holes on a golf course +
k <== 11 <== soccer players (on a team)
n <== 14 <== fortnight (fourteen nights and days) +
i <== 9 <== baseball players (on a team) +
c <== 3 <== clover leaves +
e <== 5 <== Olympic rings +
l <== 12 <== months (in a year) +
y <== 25 <== squares on a bingo card (U.S.) (5×5 grid)
d <== 4 <== suits (in a deck of playing cards) +
o <== 15 <== ides of March (the fifteenth day of March) +
n <== 14 <== fortnight (fourteen nights and days) +
e <== 5 <== Olympic rings
Thus, the secret message is:
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