Weekly puzzle 14
Been a bit stressful the last week so sorry for the late arrival of this next puzzle…
Day Of The Week
It’s restful sitting in Tom’s cosy den, talking quietly and sipping a glass of his Madeira.
I was there one Sunday and we had the usual business of his clock. When the radio gave the time at the hour, the Ormolu antique was exactly 3 minutes slow.
“It loses 7 minutes every hour”, my old friend told me, as he had done so many times before. “No more and no less, but I’ve gotten used to it that way.”
When I spent a second evening with him later that same month, I remarked on the fact that the clock was dead right by radio time at the hour. It was rather late in the evening, but Tom assured me that his treasure had not been adjusted nor fixed since my last visit.
What day of the week was the second visit?
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My answer is Wednesday, 17 days later. Quite possibly wrong but having a punt….ciao
Let’s see if I can obfuscate again my solution (sorry, is stronger than me): assuming Tom’s house to be in England or to the west of England, the next visit was at panj-šambe, in the land where this name applies.
I’ll be posting the solution on Tues evening, with th enext puzzle to follow on Wednesday.
Fair answer which add, not subtract, to the puzzle. I have already reached my answer, so I’ll not be spoiled if another presents his. I’ll delay presenting mine for another day.
Both visits occured in the evening sometime between 6pm – midnight
Hi, Andrew, I hope you had a good Easter.
Since the span of the periods of a day may vary between different countries/languages (what is the late night for some? After mid-night is still late night or something else?), I need to know if the first time you took hours at Sunday, was before or after nine o’clock p.m. (21h) of that Sunday. This question is also my answer to the puzzle for a while.