please empty your brain below
Just one word each please
(but do tell us how you worked it out!)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.10.03 - 7:07 a.m. | #

1. Eggshells, though extra credit will be given for 5318008

Scaryduck | 28.10.03 - 7:26 a.m. | #

5. Keyboard - in HTML.

Alex | 28.10.03 - 7:31 a.m. | #

2 - Phonetic

Damo | 28.10.03 - 8:48 a.m. | #

6 - Inspector

Alan | 28.10.03 - 9:09 a.m. | #

4 ArSeNiC

Peter | Homepage | 28.10.03 - 9:15 a.m. | #

12. Deaf (British sign language)

emma | Homepage | 28.10.03 - 9:19 a.m. | #

10. Flag (semaphore)

Dave | Homepage | 28.10.03 - 9:37 a.m. | #

I wish I'd looked into no11 first. That strikes me as the hardest of the lot and I now know the answer.

*gnashes teeth*

Dave | Homepage | 28.10.03 - 9:40 a.m. | #

6) Inspector - morse code

Huw | Homepage | 28.10.03 - 9:41 a.m. | #

7. Pearly (cockney)

Simon Jester | 28.10.03 - 10:16 a.m. | #

9. MIX (Roman)

Tony | 28.10.03 - 10:53 a.m. | #

3 - CABBAGE, I believe (musical notes)

Chz | Homepage | 28.10.03 - 11:33 a.m. | #

8 - SHIP, Nautical Signal Flags

Big Cheese | 28.10.03 - 2:21 p.m. | #

11 is Concorde. If you mark the locations of all the towns on a map of UK (use rough midpoints for Wales and East Anglia) and then draw a straight line from the Birmingham point to the London point - and so on through the other places in the order specified - then you will get an polygonal outline image of Concorde in mid-flight (at a sort of angle).

Jag | Homepage | 28.10.03 - 4:18 p.m. | #

Jag - I don't think so! I've already made one suggestion, so I shouldn't offer another - but if the answer is what I think it is, Luton and Northampton represent a single letter.

Simon Jester | 28.10.03 - 5:21 p.m. | #

Just 11 left to guess (and Simon's on the right track...)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.10.03 - 5:45 p.m. | #

BLACK - car registration regional identifiers

Vicky | Homepage | 28.10.03 - 6:21 p.m. | #

The twelve hidden words were:

  1] EGGSHELLS (upside-down on a calculator)
  2] phonetic (Phonetic alphabet)
  3] cabbage (musical notes)
  4] ArSeNiC (element-ary)
  5] keyboard (in HTML/ASCII code)
  6] inspector (morse)
  7] pearly (Cockney Alphabet)
  8] ship (nautical signal flags)
  9] MIX (Roman numerals)
10] flag (semaphore)
11] black (vehicle registration letters)
12] deaf (Deafblind manual alphabet)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.10.03 - 6:54 p.m. | #

OK, OK. So I was wrong. But I wanted to get it off my chest anyway, the confounded problem had me bugged all day and I made a crazy, vaguely-laterally-thought-out guess.

Jag | Homepage | 28.10.03 - 9:37 p.m. | #











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