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Kassiopeia
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Jyväskylä, Finland
Jul 2001
time: 07:36
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Originally posted by duke o' york
Chapter One – “coming to…… Olympic”: Hercules
already solved this one. It was just to narrow the field and let you know that one of the mafia was American.  |
Pffft.
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Chapter Two – Wisps of brown material. This was pipe tobacco. Someone mentioned Miss Marple’s handbag, but leather isn’t wispy.  |
DUH! This was a no-brainer, should've gotten this one.
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Chapter Three – Miss Marple almost hit by a banger. HongHu playing King Albert solitaire – Simenon was Belgian. gjramsey kicks something into the river. It wasn’t a tennis ball, it was an apple. As in Mac! |
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Chapter Four – HongHu playing Pairs (anagram of Paris). Playing card: “Sweet Peg, thou shalt be my Summer’s Queen,” from Thomas Dekker’s The Merry Month of May – see Miss Marple’s and “nobody was thinking about poetry” when Nuclear Master died. |
May?
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Chapter Five – HongHu plays Ugly. The ugly man on the pile of gold on the card was Rumpelstiltskin – nobody knew his name. |
Ooh, nice one. Very nice. Great clue. 
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Chapter Six – White Horse whisky. A white horse is called a grey in racing. |
Grey? His trenchcoat or something?
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Chapter Seven – Obelisk in the desert. Also in the Place de la Concorde. Almond-shaped piece of paper was a map of Sri Lanka, with its capital clearly marked – Colombo. |
That was a really great one. Too bad I didn't come across any maps of Sri Lanka during the game.
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Chapter Eight – String of jewels points to M. l’inspecteur Jules Maigret. |
Edit: nevermind. Jules. Jewels.
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Chapter Nine – An apostle fork???? But who is the most famous fork apostle? Peter Falk? |
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Inspired but Jamski’s Roman Mafia game, I also played a little game with the name of one of the mafia. Fortunately he lasted for ages, so I was able to include all of the letters in his username as the first letters of words that were scored out in my posts. Despite making this really obvious (see C and O), nobody got any of this. |
Not bad either. Nonetheless, 
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duke o' york
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Columbo: is American, drives an old, beat-up car (banger), wears a mac, isn't great looking, no-one knows his first name, has a similar surname to the capital of Sri Lanka, and was played in the TV series by Peter Falk. Actually, Zopp's dying words were also a massive hint. They were something like: "Just one more thing," a catchphrase from the TV show.
Maigret: smokes a pipe, his author was Belgian, he was from Paris, pronounced "May Grey", and had the first name Jules.
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Kassiopeia
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Jyväskylä, Finland
Jul 2001
time: 07:36
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It would have required quite a bit of background information. Maigret's first name, Simenon's nationality, the fact that Columbo's first name was never divulged, that Sri Lanka's capital is Colombo, and so on. Some of this I knew, but couldn't make the connection, but stuff like the fork apostle just fly right over my head.
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Actually, Zopp's dying words were also a massive hint. They were something like: "Just one more thing," a catchphrase from the TV show. |
 Too many years since I last watched Columbo. That's what I meant with "seems harmless until the very end". He's about to walk out of the door or whatever, and then he turns around with his cigar in hand, and says "Just one more thing"... love it.
Last edited by Kassiopeia on 04-06-2004 at 19:50
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Guynemer
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Damn, I was so close!
Sorry Zopp. When Skanky & Jamski jumped on me in one of the early rounds, I had to find a patsy and quick. You fit the bill.
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vovan
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So who were the Mafia again? I'm making an update to the Mafia history, and am too lazy to dig through the whole thread, two of them especially. Would be good if someone explicitly posted two names: Mafia were Spaced Cowboy and ...?
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