Can anyone decrypt this clock?
I saw this clock on the wall at a convenience store and was trying to figure out what the letters meant. Can anyone enlighten me?
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I don’t know yet.
Do you know what, if anything, is written on the red hexagon in the center of the clock face? Perhaps that holds a clue.
Also, in the 1 position, is that a P or an R?
Good luck. I have no idea. I keep thinking Professor but that’s not it.
It means I need a new prescription for eyeglasses. (What clock? Where?)
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This clock.
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Ok there is a T for 12, 2 and 10, and they all start with a T. And thats about where it stops making sense to me. lol
P-1,8
M-3,11
S – 4,5
E- 6
F-7
O-9
Yea I can’t seem to find any other pattern going on there
@Brian1946: The same trick works for Safari also. It still looks like an eye chart to me, or maybe an ad for pretzels. and Marlboro still has those garish signs?
Here’s a list of anagrams that can be made with those letters but that offers no solution either
My guess is that if you take the letter under the hour hand and the letter under th minute hand, you get an initialism that has some particular significance to whoever the clock was designed for.
maybe, building on @Nullo ‘s idea, the initials could be the special.
I started writing a phrase:
Time passes, the minutes seldom stop. but then I got stuck. There is nothing like it I could find via Google.
@zenvelo yea I just spent a good hour googling and got noting. Im really curious to find out the meaning of this clock.
My guess it that it’s a clock of canonical hours for prayers.
Clockwise from 1 o’clock:
Prime
Terce
Matins
Sext
Synaxarion
Eucharion
… and so forth.
Note that this is almost certainly wrong!
@koanhead I like the idea of a canonical clock, but this seems to be in a liquor store, which would be an odd place for it.
I think it is a slogan or a phrase, like MTGLACS would be Marlboro tastes good like a cigarette should.
Yeah, I don’t think it is a canonical clock. It might be. I dunno for certain. But too many hours on the clock for canonical prayer. I think the thing to do is ask next time you are in the store. I REALLY want to know. The clue is the emblem in the center. I can’t see what it is though.
The letters represent the word for each number in Hebrew, phonetically in English.
I thought “one” in Hebrew is echad (אחד). The letter on the clock representing one is a “P.” Two is shney. The letter in the number two space is not an “S” @zensky.
http://www.morim.com/numbers.htm
Sometimes, seemingly cryptic things are actually meaningless. You know how people often argue over the meaning of the song when it turns out that the artist just threw a bunch of words together when he or she was high? This could be another case of the same thing.
Can’t fool you @bkcunningham – you is too smart and have way too much time. BTW – two is shnayim or shtayim.
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Hi all, sorry for the late response. The logo in the middle is for Honey Farms, a convenience store in Worcester, MA. I asked the guy behind the counter, but he had no idea what it meant.
Well, @zensky, I thought you were serious and I got excited that the damn mystery was solved. It is driving me crazy for some odd reason. I keep coming back to see if I can find the answer.
To Provide The Most Satisfying Shopping Experience For People On The Move. It is the Honey Farm motto dammit.
Thank you @dappled_leaves. I’d like to kick that guy’s ass for not knowing what it meant. He works there and wasn’t ever curious? It was bugging the heck out of me.
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@filmfann You idiot! That’s Winston, not Marlboro!
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