6 May 2013
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Sarah Werner
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As the commenters on last week’s crocodile guessed, the mystery image showed writing masquerading as print or, to use the more formal term, a pen facsimile (click on any of the images in the post to enlarge them): It’s telling … Continue reading
3 May 2013
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The Collation
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Another month, another mystery for your riddling. What might be going on in this image? I’m not asking you to identify the text1 but to look at it and speculate on what we might see and say about it. Click … Continue reading
12 April 2013
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Sarah Werner
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This month’s crocodile mystery was a bit more challenging than recent ones (perhaps not helped by my cryptic “suitable for April” introduction), but Aaron Pratt guessed the gist of it: the image was a detail of a page printed in … Continue reading
8 April 2013
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The Collation
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Is April the cruellest month? If so, here’s a suitably dark crocodile mystery for you to solve: What is this and what might we learn from it? Your speculations are welcome in the comments, and the answer will appear later this week! … Continue reading
5 March 2013
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Sarah Werner
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In my last post, I described this month’s crocodile mystery as more of a rhetorical device than a question to be answered: what does this box prompt us to imagine what might be?1 And what does it contain? Both a … Continue reading
26 February 2013
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Sarah Werner
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I’m a bit early with the March crocodile, but sometimes it’s hard not to wish February done. And so here’s another variation on our crocodile mystery theme, this time asking you not what an item is, but what it might … Continue reading
7 February 2013
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Sarah Werner
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So the short answer to last week’s crocodile mystery is that this is a picture of Gwen Lally in the role of Henry V: How did I know that’s who this was? Well, click on the image and you’ll be … Continue reading
31 January 2013
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The Collation
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Something a little bit different with this month’s crocodile mystery: this is an object that I both know and don’t know what it is. At one level, it’s not hard to figure out what is being depicted. But who and … Continue reading
8 January 2013
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Heather Wolfe
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No, it’s not Lady Gaga’s hairline or the frizz on one of those creepy troll dolls.1 Last week’s crocodile mystery is in fact a close up of silk embroidery floss that had been tightly wrapped around a folded letter, with seals … Continue reading
3 January 2013
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The Collation
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To welcome you all into 2013 and back to The Collation‘s regular posting schedule, we offer this crocodile mystery for you to ponder: As always, leave your thoughts below and the answer will be revealed next week!