Solve the puzzle - compile a sentence which matches the pattern...

[Omnis]

Nope.

(and, given that you just posted a substitution in a phrase which was correct, that should give you some clues)

I have to weed it out one way or another!

Olympic runners in China currently completed a distance which doesn't upset - The Great Wall's length!

 

[Famine]

I'm leaning towards the excessive use of hyphens and commas, and where in the sentence.

My last only had two apostrophes, one hyphen (though really an em-dash) and an exclamation mark. Blake's only had one comma and a full stop...

That's not to say this isn't part of the pattern (except the "excessive" part)...

In Mongolia- An east-asian country, Yaks are often thought of as suitable bed partners.

Hmmmmmmmmnope.

 

[markj_87]

Acoustic technicians in Tasmania recently uncovered a sound which doesn't echo - Bart Simpson's voice!


(ten)

Well that one threw everything out the window. I was playing with a theory that this one destroys. Tasmania's not even a country, it's an Australian state! Now I'm lost.

 

[Famine]

Well that one threw everything out the window. I was playing with a theory that this one destroys. Tasmania's not even a country, it's an Australian state! Now I'm lost.

Don't be disheartened - even though the nature of the pattern differs slightly from previous examples, the pattern itself is still preserved...

 

[Omnis]

I have to weed it out one way or another!

Olympic runners in China currently completed a distance which doesn't upset - The Great Wall's length!

(caught up in the edit.) In case you didn't notice, famine...

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

The trouble with these sentences is, that they are making my brain hurt, much more so than they should.

 

[Omnis]

Mary had a little lamb.


See Spot run - Spot runs fast. Go, Spot, go!

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?

 

[Dave A]

Don't be disheartened - even though the nature of the pattern differs slightly from previous examples, the pattern itself is still preserved...

Would that be eleven now .

I'll give this another shot and then I'll be back to stage one if this is wrong.

The river mersey is in England, it runs through at least one city.

 

[Famine]

Back to stage one it is...

 

[Seanman]

Although a monkey in the house is odd to some, it is perfectly normal in Brazil!

Can a pattern maybe be that simple?

 

[Famine]

Although a monkey in the house is odd to some, it is perfectly normal in Brazil!

Can a pattern maybe be that simple?

It is relatively simple, but you haven't got the right one.

 

[Seanman]

 

[Midnight Runner]

One of the odd things in operating an odometer is that outgauging is not outright.

 

[Dave A]

If I rephrased that comment of evilgenous' to...
Although one monkey in the house is odd to some, two or three is normal in Brazil.
Is that any closer? It's just a refinement of my last theory before I go back to square one.

EDIT: Just edited a word out I left in by mistake.

 

[Famine]

If I rephrased that comment of evilgenous' to...
Although one monkey in the house is odd to some, two or three is normal in Brazil.
Is that any closer? It's just a refinement of my last theory before I go back to square one.

EDIT: Just edited a word out I left in by mistake.

No closer, no.

An old law in Vietnam makes it illegal to beat a cow with an oil lamp.

 

[Seanman]

A Dutch queen of the Ninteenth Century refuses to eat anything starting with the letter "G".

 

[Omnis]

No closer, no.

An old law in Vietnam makes it illegal to beat a cow with an oil lamp.

Mine isn't right? Patterns suck.

 

[Famine]

A Dutch queen of the Ninteenth Century refuses to eat anything starting with the letter "G".

As interesting as it is incorrect. Though it does look surprisingly like a quote from Ocean's Twelve.

 

[Omnis]

As interesting as it is incorrect. Though it does look surprisingly like a quote from Ocean's Twelve.

Is this thread about Parallelism?

 

[Famine]

No.

As I keep saying, the pattern is really, really not complicated - or at least not as complicated as some of you are managing to make it.

I wouldn't worry though - it took my friend nearly 3 days of head-scratching to get it, and she was far more annoyed at how easy the answer was than she was at how difficult it seemed in those three days.

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

What about my sentence?

 

[Famine]

Your sentence is just a pangram.

I think, by now, everyone has established one key feature of each phrase. All you must do now is figure out the pattern. That's pattern. Each phrase has a pattern and this pattern is common to all the phrases... A link between the phrases has been uncovered, but that's just a link - the pattern itself is still there (for everyone except Blake).

I can't give much more of a clue than this.

 

[Omnis]

There are 5 nouns in most of the sentences.

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

I meant my first sentense.

"the quick brown fox" was just a joke.

 

[Dave A]

Please don't try and post a guess as to what the pattern actually is, and, if you think you've solved it, don't post "hints" to others. If you think you've solved it, just post a phrase of your own. I'll mark them for correctness, occasionally.

Ding ding.

 

[Famine]

There are 5 nouns in most of the sentences.

There's something else about the sentences - and don't get wrapped up in grammatical or syntax niceties. As I said to Interceptor, this may be easier for non-native English speakers, as they won't get bogged down by this.

Even so, "most" isn't a link.

 

[Sage]

I should bill you for the all the time I’m wasting trying to figure this out.

 

[Famine]

I should bill you for the all the time I’m wasting trying to figure this out.

If you were in Spain, you'd be really mad - riddles like this tend to send the locals potty!

 

[the Interceptor]

I have an idea ... hang on, I just got to figure out a sentence ...

"So, FIA has decided that there'll never be a Formula 1 race in Bulgaria, which might also be connected to the fact that there is no useable racetrack."

gotcha!