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paul slade (Slade)
New Solitaire Player
Username: Slade
Post Number: 1
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 3:28 am: | |
"Removing queens will attract lobsters, although dealing in fans will remove the King. Prince Andrew favours rows of seven, and there's a Bonanza for your computer. Why would Bunthorne have fancied this?"
The above question is taken from a BBC Radio 4 programme called Round Britain Quiz. Bunthorne appeared in the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta "Patience", which is also the British name for solitaire.
I am convinced the remaining four elements of the question each represent a variety of solitaire/patience, but have not been able to identify the particular games involved. Can anyone help?
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Gregg Seelhoff (Seelhoff)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Seelhoff
Post Number: 162
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 11:11 am: | |
Cool!
I am not any good at this type of riddle, but that will not stop me from guessing. 
>Removing queens will attract lobsters
This one has me stumped. At first I thought that it may be a reference to Raw Prawn, but that game is unique to Pretty Good Solitaire, I believe. What attracts lobsters?
>dealing in fans will remove the King
This could be any fan game, as they all play on foundations from Ace to King. I suspect that the game would be La Belle Lucie (a reference to Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities, I imagine).
>Prince Andrew favours rows of seven
There are lots of games with a royal theme, but I cannot figure out exactly which one is referenced here. By name, Duchess or Royal Marriage would be good candidates, but neither has rows of seven. King Albert has a row of seven cards, but that is a pretty weak connection.
>there's a Bonanza for your computer
I think that this is simply Klondike, which is the "Solitaire" that ships with Windows.
I doubt that helps much, but please let us all know when you have the (real) solution.
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paul forsdick (Pondpaul)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Pondpaul
Post Number: 231
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 12:14 pm: | |
Hi
no luck with me
but this link will take you to the bbc site and you can listen to the programme again and get the answer next week
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/rbq.shtml
Paul |
Anonymous
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 2:11 pm: | |
Hi Paul--OK, I give up--can you send me the moves for "Reserves?" I have tried and tried to win it with Ken's winning number and it's just no go at all--
Thanks--e-mail is brucam@citlink.net.
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paul slade (Slade)
New Solitaire Player
Username: Slade
Post Number: 2
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 14, 2005 - 8:29 am: | |
Thanks very much to Gregg Seelhoff for trying to help with the RBQ puzzle above. I thought he (and others) might like to know the solution.
They were all varieties of solitaire:
Queens/Lobsters referred to Quadrille, as in Alice In Wonderland's Lobster Quadrille.
Fans/Kings led to Cromwell (who removed a king, of course)
Price Andrew/Rows of Seven was supposed to make us think of Golf. Prince Andrew, it seems, is patron of St Andrews Golf Club - a rather tenuous link if you ask me.
Bonanza/Computer was Klondike and its omnipresence on Windows.
Thanks again for your help. Aren't these questions infuriating?
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Gregg Seelhoff (Seelhoff)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Seelhoff
Post Number: 166
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 14, 2005 - 3:56 pm: | |
Thanks for posting the solution!
As far as the Golf clue is concerned, it was especially tenuous for me, as (being in the US) I hardly even know who Prince Andrew is, much less the clubs to which he happens to belong.
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