HubLove Clue - Thursday, March 6
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Note that we're in our final third of the contest, so the first correct guess wins 3 points now. You all have 3 guesses each, as well.
Congratulations to MC7 who solved this clue first. Today's topic is BUSINESS. (the 10 digit numbers were for public companies' headquarters. The 2 number after the plus sign told you which letters to take from their stock ticker symbol. The companies were Anheuser Busch, Silicon Graphics, CNET, and Essex Property Trust. So BUD+SGIC+CNET+ESS=BUSINESS)
You have until noon tomorrow (Friday, Pacific Time) to publish up to 10 high-quality Hubs, each worth 3 points (yes, three points; that's not a typo; the best Hub wins 15 points!), that must:
- be on the topic of business; remember, keep it informative and useful, and not just a purely-personal account of your feelings/experiences about business; (here are just some examples "Starting your own crafts business", "Business Websites and Blogs", "LLC tax checklist", "Business ideas for college students without a car", etc.)
- include the tag business
- have at least 300 words (no credit for 299 so you might as well overshoot)
- be unique and significantly different from any other Hub or Web page.
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Guesses here
mathematics
beer
numbers
celebrities
prime
271031518723
baseball
entertainment
puzzles?
telephone
Recreation
nascar
formula
brain teasers
research
No one's got it yet.
oh no, wheres MC7??? lol
travel. Hey, it's worth a shot.
astronomy
i was just about to say travel as well. So I'm going to guess aviation now. :)
As is the case with these late-in-the-contest clues, you're not going to guess it correctly at the face of it. There is some logic to figuring it out. You might want to consider using some lifelines....(Yahoo Answers, email/IM, phone, etc.)
television
television!!! I bet that's it! Dang it! Why didn't I say that!
oops i guessed 4 times.....jimmy
I am totally clueless. lol
television
movie stars?
entertainment
I don't see it yet. Keep going!
HubPages !!!? where are you! =D has anyone got it yet??? lol
r we on the right track?
r we on the right track?
stars?
oh amy I thunk u got it! =)
No one's got it until I've said they've got it. Keep trying!
last guess... beauty?
money
score board?
confessions
communication (which isn't very effective right now) Ha Ha
I still don't see it. Call out the lifelines to the brainiest people you know. :)
prize
505 171 412 986 must mean something!
HOLIDAYS (VACATIONS)
We not be brainy. Wah!
Could you give us a hint???
The hint is: analyze the clue.
method?
You guys are brainy. This is just a TOUGH clue. Random guesses will probably not work.
jigsaw was from saw. saw was a horror movie. movie villains?
I'm out of hint, but this is crazy. I can't give up.
lol how about another hint??? ;)
I meant to say horror movies, too. Not that it matters!
steph, those numbers look like area codes...
school
Is there a cut off for this, like if it's not solved by a certain time it'll be revealed with no points awarded? or if it's not guessed do we all get a day off from hubbing? >.>
world
No, no cutoff. It would be a shame to have no one guess the clue and no one write Hubs. :(
Only God knows the answer.
places?
Insane aslyum!
HAHAHAHAHA!
23 is both a number in Lost and in that quirky movie 23. Maybe it's mystery?
communication
everyone just start blurting out answers!!!!!
fun read, travel, play, sports , love, nature, marriage . . .
We can't Wendy, we only get 3 guesses in a day.
conspiracy
yea, only tree guesses to get points! we can keep guessing that way we can write hubs about it.
I will ignore guesses past the third you've said. So Wendy08 you're already done.
doh, sorry we only get three guesses to get points
religion?
awww. . . good luck.
Someone get this sometime soon. It's driving me nuts.
home
competition
psychology
science
Haven't seen it yet.
millenium
infinity
- law
beer
Not yet!
dating
supercalifragilisticexpealadocios!
What if someone guesses it, but they are out of guesses? You really just ignore it? Completely?
beer
did you know that the first number is the 800 number to Anheuser Busch?
I did notice that, LdsNana!
come on... do you think I would guess BEER? LOL
Nana,
That doesn't mean that it's the answer, darlin'. :( I came up with the same thing.
DID YOU NOTICE IT OR DID YOU CALL THEM LIKE ME AND ACTUALLY ASK THEM IF THEY WERE OUR CLUE???
LOLOLOL
THANKS DEAR... DUH? :-)
Yes, that was my second guess, nut now I am out of guesses! I am going to go have a beer now, so much stress, LOL!
Hahaha!
I still have one guess left... UGH.
OH IT IS REPAIRS... ISN'T IT?
We're counting on you, Helena!
LOL... I have been missing this part of the fun all this time:-)
I will ignore it if the user's 3 guesses are exhausted. But if that person wants to explain their logic so that a person who hasn't exhausted all 3 wants to expend one on it, then that'll work!
I have one left too...but no clue.
okay... here it goes, cuz it is repairs... go look and see just what our clue givers are into
and these were calculations..
so repairs or calculations... something like this.. go for it you gamblers:-)
Okay, I really don't have the time to be doing this; I expected everyone would've guessed it by now! So here's my last guess...
house?
home!
Haven't seen it yet.
guys... he is ignoring someone with three guesses already... maybe that is me and my big MOUTH:-)
try REPAIR OR REPAIRS?
I guess it's time to work collaboratively... in addition to the Anheuser-Busch 800 number, the second, third, and fourth numbers, after you drop off the first two numbers all include the main line for:
Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI)
CNET Networks (CNET)
Essex Property Trust (ESS)
I don't know what to do with the last 23, or the first two numbers at before each of these phone numbers.
Ideas?
repairs
"go look and see just what our clue givers are into"
You lost me here. Mental Floss is kind of a general knowledge, "bet ya didn't know", type blog. Trivia kinda. I'm having a hard time making the connection to repairs from that, but you may be right. *shrug*
business
worldliness
:-) good try!
I was just about to say those are all business numbers. Hmm. Someone keep guessing. LOL
MC7 got it!
Thank God.
Congrats MC7!
sheesh
yea!
that only took an hour and a half.
Kellyfilmgirl, agreed.
MC7, you are rocking that brain. I gave up, and cleaned my bathroom while you figured it out.
wyg mc7, my hero lol.....jimmy
Great job MC7!! Too funny ...Wendy08 was wondering where you were (76 minutes ago).
thank you MC7, for giving us the ability not to have the night off.. rofl!
Total shot in the dark but is it "electricity"?
congrats
I got as far as the phone number, but was thrown by the fact that it and the last number are primes. Then I found out that number (ahem) number two was not. It did strike me that they looked a lot like phone number, but said to myself "naw!"
lol, OMG, i was thinking about it earlier today and just thinking about blurting it, but then when I saw th numbers I got bewildered. lol oh well. maybe next time. lol
MarloByDesign says:
2 years ago
addition