The FOFC Enigma Puzzle #5

[enigma]

Sorry for the long delay. Why so long remains a mystery.

Here is a puzzle for you. It could be really easy, it could be really hard. I don't know, but I'll try to give nudges as needed. It is in two parts. First find the answers to the clues. Then if used properly, the answers will describe a place. That place is the new enigma password.

Trumpeting Ranidae
Under Eighteen
Rouge Bandits
Feidler Sells His Wares
Noisy Snakes, for short
Angry Swampers
Condoms
Chicken Coats
Red Evenings
Naval Commanders
Inexperienced Greeting
Web Weavers
Lupus goes on a trip
Wing Chain Mascot
Furnace Producers
Untame Kittys
Lightless Evenings
Frugal Fighters
Property Destroyers
Sad Chickens
Willing Richards
Rouge Bandits
Central Sailor Guys
Damn Constructors!
Depressed Demons
Not Laters
Avoids a Toss
Swamp Lizards
Ford Horses
Key Lime Prices
Blade Returns
Confederates in Motion

[General Mike]

Trumpeting Ranidae - Horned Frogs
Under Eighteen - Miners
Rouge Bandits - Red Raiders
Feidler Sells His Wares - Jayhawks
Noisy Snakes, for short - Rattlers
Angry Swampers - Ragin Cajuns
Condoms - Trojans
Chicken Coats - Yellow Jackets
Red Evenings - Scarlet Knights
Naval Commanders - Commodores
Inexperienced Greeting
Web Weavers - Spiders ??
Lupus goes on a trip
Wing Chain Mascot
Furnace Producers - Boilermakers
Untame Kittys - Wildcats
Lightless Evenings - Black Knights
Frugal Fighters
Property Destroyers - Vandals ??
Sad Chickens - Blue Hens
Willing Richards - Gamecocks
Rouge Bandits - Red Raiders ??
Central Sailor Guys - Midshipmen
Damn Constructors! - Beavers
Depressed Demons - Blue Devils
Not Laters - Sooners
Avoids a Toss - Ducks
Swamp Lizards - Gators
Ford Horses - Mustangs
Key Lime Prices - Pirates
Blade Returns - Razorbacks?
Confederates in Motion - Runnin' Rebels

[dacman]

Under Eighteen = Miners
Confederates in Motion = Runnin' Rebels

[Brillig]

Feidler Sells His Wares = Jayhawks
Avoids a Toss = Dodgers

[cthomer5000]

Chicken coats = yellow jackets

[digamma]

Angry Swampers - Ragin' Cajuns

Confederates in Motion--Runnin' Rebels

[digamma]

Avoids a toss--Ducks(?)

[General Mike]

Willing Richards = Gamecocks?

[dacman]

Sad Chickens = Blue Hens

[digamma]

Originally Posted by General Mike

Willing Richards = Gamecocks?

Nice.

[General Mike]

Originally Posted by digamma

Avoids a toss--Ducks(?)

That makes more sense than Dodgers because they all look like clues to college team mascots

Sad Chickens = Blue Hens?

[digamma]

Key Lime Prices--Pirates

[dacman]

Lupus goes on a trip -- Wolverines? Huskies? Something along those lines.

[TredWel]

I've got the puzzle solved, but can't figure out exactly what place is used for the password.

[General Mike]

Originally Posted by dacman

Lupus goes on a trip -- Wolverines? Huskies? Something along those lines.

Wolfpack?

[digamma]

Frugal Fighters--Spartans?

[digamma]

Inexperienced Greeting--Green Wave

[Raven Hawk]

Originally Posted by TredWel

I've got the puzzle solved, but can't figure out exactly what place is used for the password.

Then obviously you don't have the puzzle solved . . .

[Brillig]

Originally Posted by General Mike

Trumpeting Ranidae - Horned Frogs
Under Eighteen - Miners
Rouge Bandits - Red Raiders
Feidler Sells His Wares - Jayhawks
Noisy Snakes, for short - Rattlers
Angry Swampers - Ragin Cajuns
Condoms - Trojans
Chicken Coats - Yellow Jackets
Red Evenings - Scarlet Knights
Naval Commanders - Commodores
Inexperienced Greeting
Web Weavers - Spiders ??
Lupus goes on a trip
Wing Chain Mascot
Furnace Producers - Boilermakers
Untame Kittys - Wildcats
Lightless Evenings - Black Knights
Frugal Fighters
Property Destroyers - Vandals ??
Sad Chickens -Blue Hens
Willing Richards - Gamecocks
Rouge Bandits - Red Raiders ??
Central Sailor Guys - Midshipmen
Damn Constructors! - Beavers
Depressed Demons - Blue Devils
Not Laters - Sooners
Avoids a Toss - Ducks
Swamp Lizards - Gators
Ford Horses - Mustangs
Key Lime Prices
Blade Returns
Confederates in Motion - Runnin' Rebels

Try that and you get:

First colle(g)e ( )( )otb( )llgape locat(i)(o)n

Unscramble a bit to get "First college football game location"

Unfortunately, "newbrunswick", "collegefield", and "rutgers" are all no go...

[enigma]

The password has been unlocked.

[Coffee Warlord]

Is that a new record for engima victory?

[General Mike]

Originally Posted by enigma

The password has been unlocked.

So what was the answer? Piscataway?

[Franklinnoble]

These enigma bastards are starting to piss me off. Share the fucking answers already.

[enigma]

The answer to this one was "New Brunswick". The previous enigma should be hit in the face with a trout for not following the enigma rules!

"The FOFC Enigma is a self-repeating puzzle system. If you know the answer to the current puzzle, sign on to FOFC with the username "enigma" using the answer (in all lower case letters, with no spacing) as the password. If you're right -- you control the enigma, and may post the next puzzle under that username."

[Coffee Warlord]

By the way, I vote that when we hit 10 enigmas (and every 10 thereafter), we have an Enigma Reunion Tour. Everyone who has posted one reveals themself!

[Joe]

So whats to keep the "enigma" from putting a bogus answer as the password and just keep control of the "enigma"

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally Posted by George W Bush

So whats to keep the "enigma" from putting a bogus answer as the password and just keep control of the "enigma"

Prolly the fact that we are all, for the most part, honest folk.

And it's a meaningless game, that gives us a little fun.

And coming up with a buttload of puzzles in a row would get really damned hard, unless your name starts with Q and ends with uikSand.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by enigma

The answer to this one was "New Brunswick". The previous enigma should be hit in the face with a trout for not following the enigma rules!

"The FOFC Enigma is a self-repeating puzzle system. If you know the answer to the current puzzle, sign on to FOFC with the username "enigma" using the answer (in all lower case letters, with no spacing) as the password. If you're right -- you control the enigma, and may post the next puzzle under that username."

Thanks.

I still want the answer to the golf one...

[Brillig]

Originally Posted by George W Bush

So whats to keep the "enigma" from putting a bogus answer as the password and just keep control of the "enigma"

I'd also point out that if that happened (assuming that the correct answer was posted at the end), someone has the opportunity to jump up and say "Wait a minute, I tried that as the password and it didn't work".

This isn't as easy to rig as Florida election results.

[Shkspr]

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

These enigma bastards are starting to piss me off. Share the fucking answers already.

And here some of us thought the whole point of the "enigma" account is that you wouldn't know who we were!

For the record:

1) In the very first puzzle of the five that have been presented, the possibility was raised that Quiksand was posting in the thread of a puzzle he created to try to throw us off (or, conversely, to steer us gently in the right direction). The idea that we never find out who wrote these is a good thing. I certainly don't need the adulation, and I need the grief even less.

2) That said, when puzzle number four was solved without the solution to a few of the clues (as I kind of intended; make 'em tough and give several paths to the final answer), people wanted to know what the hell I was thinking. The problem was, I didn't control the enigma account anymore. I couldn't publicly post the answers without breaking cover, which IMO completely defeats the purpose of the anonymity.

3) I sent a PM to enigma just after I read the first request for help, but how would he know to read it? The email address for enigma is a yahoo drop box, so who's going to be able to read email and get the PM? The person who controls enigma is going to do the following: Log out from their regular account, log in under enigma, write the puzzle, and log out. They could EASILY miss the presence of a PM in their box, and if they did, then nothing I write to them anonymously will help.

4) Not everybody posts from work. I've been out of the house since the messages began to turn a little nasty in the enigma threads about me not breaking cover, so all y'all can blow me - I just got back.

5) My wife has just informed me that none of y'all can blow me. Except for Coffee Warlord. She thinks the penguin hat is kinda cute.

6) Coffee Warlord may not blow me.

[Danny]

It should be the responsibility of the new enigma to post the answer to the puzzle they solved. Enigma #5 was bad. He didn't follow the rules and never posted the answer that got him the account.