It's time for another edition of Name That Kossack, the picture riddle game where a username is worth a thousand words.
Here's how it works: I will give you a series of Photoshopped pictures, and based on what you see, you guess the Daily Kos username of the Kossack the picture is referring to. For example, this:
would be LaughingPlanet. That's all there is to it: Look at the picture, guess who it is. The game might make for some good DK4 avatars -- in fact, at least two users seem to think so!
There are 12 picture riddles in this edition.
Here are the rules:
1. Leave your answers in the body of the comment section. Do NOT leave them in the subject line.
2. Obviously, you need to be able to view the pictures to play.
Also, here are some helpful hints:
a) The riddles will generally get trickier as you go.
b) Use whatever tools at your disposal (Google, Daily Kos search engine, Photoshop, etc) to figure the riddles out.
c) Some pictures may test your knowledge of history, music, popular culture, and other topics. Again, Google is your friend.
d) Some pictures are designed to be sneaky. For example, if you see a picture of a bee, that may refer to either the word "bee" or simply the letter B.
e) When in doubt, spell out what you see and go from there.
f) All pictures were selected to refer to active Daily Kos users who are at least fairly frequent commenters/diarists. I didn't pick anyone who signed up yesterday or hasn't posted any comments/diaries in 5 years. You don't have to be familiar with the users in question to solve the riddles, but it helps.
g) Finally, what you don't see in the picture may be just as important as what you do see.
I will update the diary by providing links to the first user(s) who answer each riddle correctly.
You can play a previous edition of this game here.
Got all that? Good luck, and have fun!
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1. Answer
2. Answer
3. Answer
4. Answer
Hint: It must be a sign, but who knows what it means?
5. Answer
Note: For riddles 6-11, you will be joining a celebrity party. They're big names. Some come first, some come last, but they can't do both. It's up to you to figure out which they prefer.
6. Answer
7. Answer
8. Answer
Hint: Take the good guy with the bad guy. Or better yet, take just one of them.
9. Answer
Hint: What you'll be saying at the end: "Aha! Got it!"
10. Answer
Hint #1: The title of an American award-winning play and critically acclaimed film has this guy's nickname -- but the play wasn't about him.
Hint#2: Only one of those letters is important. Take a wild guess which one.
11. Answer
Let's go for a trip!
Hint #1: You'll have to work around the clock to get this one.
Hint #2: One went West, one went more West, one went South but turned around.
Hint #3: In the end, it doesn't matter what their names are. Just give me the numbers on how long they were gone.
12. Answer
Hint: What would the Creator say about that?
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Updated by SuperBowlXX at Tue May 24, 2011 at 12:51 AM EDT
All of the picture riddles have been solved. Here is the list of users who posted the correct answers first for each riddle:
1. TFinSF (close 2nd: litho)
2. rexymeteorite
3. pat of butter in a sea of grits (close 2nd: tonyahky)
4. rexymeteorite
5. TFinSF
6. TFinSF
7. dougymi
8. TFinSF
9. ursoklevar
10. TFinSF
11. dansk47
12. dansk47