Use the Internet or your friendly local SD Resource Centre to work out the answer to this puzzle. The first correct answer wins a 50 Baht Snack Card.
If that first correct answer is also fully illustrated, it wins three 50 Baht Snack Cards!
Many mythical creatures are made up from parts of other creatures that really do exist. For the examples above, mermaids are a combination of fish and human; harpies are a combination of human and bird.
In the pictures above, you will see that, as in the game of Dominoes, it is possible to follow a trail from one creature to the next:
Below, but in alphabetical order only, are 9 different mythical creatures. Can you win the snack card challenge by placing them in a single line, so that each creature shares at least one component with the creature next to it?
CHIMAERA
ECHIDNA
GRIFFIN
KINNAREE
MINOTAUR
PEGASUS
SATYR
SPHINX (Greek, not Egyptian)
Pass your answer to Mr Moore or if you have a question post it as a comment.
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are the letters jumbled up?
ReplyDeleteNo, the order of the words in jumbled up though
ReplyDeletePoint of Information:
ReplyDeleteAn Echidna is not a mythical animal but very real!
It is one of only two egg-laying mammals, along with the Duck-billed Platypus and lives down-under.
It looks like this:
http://www.att.com.au/products/echidna/echidna.jpg
Mr N!
Mr Nagy is also a mythical creature
ReplyDeleteI think it's:
ReplyDeleteCentaur > Echidna > Chimaera > Sphinx > Minotaur > Satyr > Kinnaree > Griffin > Pegasus
check this out Mr N
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna_%28disambiguation%29
Very nice try Fah, but I'm afraid your Minotaur > Satyr link doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteHave another go ; you're not limited to just one entry !
Centaur > Echidna > Chimaera > Sphinx > paul owen > Satyr > Kinnaree > Griffin > Pegasus
ReplyDeletei have a strong feeling that the one above is correct!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed by the knowledge of taxonomy, as there is indeed a species known as Paul Owen (well almost: Paulownia). However, I think you'll find it's a tree, so not a creature (though created according to many religious beliefs).
ReplyDeleteSee : http://www.paulownia.org/
Come on! Where is the skill and perseverence that one was wont to associate with Patana science students? Will I end up eating 150 Baht's worth of biscuits myself?
I'll have another go then:
ReplyDeleteGriffin > Kinnaree > Satyr > Chimaera > Echidna > Sphynx > Pegasus > Centaur > Minotaur
hmmmm hard.... still thinking, almost there!
ReplyDeleteoh my GOD!!!!
ReplyDeletei think that he is right!!!!
check it out!!!
i definetely know the answer.....
ReplyDeletethis is it!!!!
i am sure i have won money..
Satyr > Kinnaree > Griffin > Pegasus > Centaur > Echidna > Chimaera > Sphinx > Minotaur
i have struck gold!!!
P.S Where can i collect the money....
FAR BETTER!
ReplyDeleteor BETTER BY FAH
There are several ways of lining these up, and Fah's is the firast correct one that I've seen, so she wins the 50 Baht Snack Card.
However, in a fit of reckless generosity, I'm still going to give away two more 50 Baht Snack Cards to anyone handing in, to the Science Office or SDRC Issue Desk, a set of pictures that correctly line up the creatures ( but you can't use Fah's sequence ).
SPELLING! CHEAT!
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous,
You definitely don't know how to spell 'definitely', but there's a more serious problem.
Do you cheat at Dominoes? Aren't you using the Griffin's bird component at both ends, linking its wings to Pegasus in one direction and to the Kinnaree in the other?
So your definetely is wrong in fact as well as in spelling.
BTW can you spot two 'deliberate' spelling mistakes in what Mr Gerald Moore and Mythter Moore wrote above? (And do you think that they are deliberate or that he's simply not clever enough to edit them? Or wise enough to click on the preview button?)
Minotaur > Kinnaree > Griffin > Sphinx > Echidna > Chimera (i have found it to be half snake/lion/goat) > Satyr > Centuar > Pegasus
ReplyDeletenow to google (since my printer has broken down and the school's internet is wayyyy too slow to download them) the pictures...
minotaur: http://www.nascr.net/~jcburd/minotaur.jpg
Kinnaree:
http://www.kkh.go.th/download/index_files/kinnaree.jpg
Griffin:
http://www.radeonthetop.com/photos/scr14.jpg
(note: this picture is not googled, but taken from a screenshot. any teacher that answeres the correct game gets a free pat on the back! [Never trust teachers. Especially since they can force the students to answer for them. But Mr. Jones should be able to answer this!] )
Sphinx:
http://personal.bgsu.edu/~jmpfund/Sphinx-Boston.jpg
Echidna:
http://www.lostisles.com/public/images/echidna.jpg
Chimera:
http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/artwork/chimera.jpg
Satyr
http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.cugley/Art/Bitmaps/satyr-brush.gif
Centuar
http://furry.ao.net/pub/Megan-Giles/jack1.JPG
Pegasus
http://www.quixoticpixels.com/artwork/pegasus.jpg
Schwit 9T
kin of tricky but am thinking here
ReplyDeletei don't get it?
ReplyDeleteHey Schwit
ReplyDelete'Chimera (i have found it to be half snake/lion/goat)': That's a lot of halves or a lot of Chimera.
Oh and I did this fairly quickly without using google or books except had to ask the Wife what a Kinneree was;-(
So get back to your revision you cheeky wee laddy!! :))