Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:03:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Graham <geoffrey.graham@yale.edu>
Subject: Two Games

Hello,

This week I prepared a game that was so difficult that I decided that it would only be fair to prepare a second one too. One is for very advanced people to attempt and the other is for people who are beginners.

The difficult game is divided into three parts. Part I: difficult writings mostly of New Kingdom date, but including some older ones. Part II: Ptolemaic cryptographic writings, not the most difficult of them, but just the introductory signs. Part III: the first line of a text on a naos shrine from the XXXth dynasty. It is the introduction to the tale of Shu and Geb. For the first two parts, just attempt to give the phonetic values, and meanings of the writings if you can figure them out. For the second part, just translate the text.

The simpler game is several words written almost entirely phonetically with single determinatives. You can probably transliterate them without any trouble, then look them up in your dictionaries to find their meanings.

I hope you will have fun. If no one is able to get some of the difficult writings, I will give the answers by the end of the week, and maybe you will learn something from the endeavor.

Yours, Geoff Graham
sokar@minerva.cis.yale.edu