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Solved: Ice Ice Baby
« on: September 07, 2011, 08:29:53 AM »
You know that urge to reward yourself when you are frustrated, perhaps getting yourself a cone of creamy, tasty ice on a hot summer's day? I felt the same when I noticed how much Google's Search by Images frustrated me. So I came up with a rewarding puzzle where this malicious tool won't help you much, because it can't associate, even if it tells you where the picture in question comes from.

In the following you will see ten ice cream vans and ten other vehicles. All you have to do is to find the correct pairings and the connection beneath. These connections may be various, some may be a bit more straightforward, some will take more effort. In German, we say you have to "think around the corner". You don't have to identify the vehicles necessarily, as I don't know all of them myself. Sometimes I have modified the pictures to make them harder to identify, sometimes to make the connection less obvious.

One point for each right pairing together with the right reason. Have fun!

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2011, 08:32:32 AM »
The ten ice cream vans:

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2011, 08:34:49 AM »
The ten vehicles to connect:

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2011, 08:36:07 AM »
The correct connections:
Ice 1 - Ice F (Joao)
Ice 2 - Ice J (Joao)
Ice 3 - Ice A (Ray B.)
Ice 4 - Ice H (Joao)
Ice 5 - Ice C (Joao)
Ice 6 - Ice I (Joao)
Ice 7 - Ice B (Tom_I)
Ice 8 - Ice E (Joao)
Ice 9 - Ice D (Oguerrerob)
Ice 10 - Ice G (Joao)
« Last Edit: September 09, 2011, 12:22:10 PM by Wendax »

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2011, 09:01:40 AM »
nice puzzle, but very difficult! I'm not even sure where to start....

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2011, 09:11:12 AM »
That's what it is supposed to be. If it turns out to be too difficult, I may be generous and place some confusing hints.  :D

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2011, 09:27:32 AM »
Ice 3 (ancien autocar Chausson transformé par la carrosserie Antem) goes with Ice A, prototype for an economy postwar vehicle by Chausson.
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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2011, 09:34:23 AM »
Ice 3 (ancien autocar Chausson transformé par la carrosserie Antem) goes with Ice A, prototype for an economy postwar vehicle by Chausson.
I've got good news and bad news for you.
The good news: you are right! (That was fast!)
The bad news: this connection was probably the easiest one.
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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2011, 09:41:09 AM »


Well, Ice 2 has the same engine as Ice J.....

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2011, 09:48:30 AM »


Well, Ice 2 has the same engine as Ice J.....
I wasn't aware of that. I am generous and tell you that the pairing is correct, but there is a completely different reason I had in mind. I hope you will be enlightened to find it out. It may help if you take a journey back in time to those days when I was a child...

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2011, 10:39:38 AM »
Ice 6 - Glacez Martinez and Ice E - Enyoii diseñado por Gerardo Delgado Martinez?
Ice 7 - HMS Flake 99 Thames River London Dave Mounfield and Ice H - Margaret Thatcher riding in a Challenger. Both amphibious?
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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2011, 11:36:13 AM »
Ice 6 - Glacez Martinez and Ice E - Enyoii diseñado por Gerardo Delgado Martinez?
I think you have found the right connection, but named a wrong picture.

Ice 7 - HMS Flake 99 Thames River London Dave Mounfield and Ice H - Margaret Thatcher riding in a Challenger. Both amphibious?
The pictures are correctly identified, but they are not a pair.
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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2011, 11:38:56 AM »
Ice 9 Washington, D.C., 1920. J.C.L. Ritter. Carry Ice Cream truck. A brand-new Walker Electric and Ice D Walkerville Hiram Walker, his Canadian Club truck

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2011, 11:43:09 AM »
Ice 9 Washington, D.C., 1920. J.C.L. Ritter. Carry Ice Cream truck. A brand-new Walker Electric and Ice D Walkerville Hiram Walker, his Canadian Club truck
Yes, the Walker Electric and Mr. Walker's Canadian Club make a pairing.

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2011, 11:47:09 AM »
Ice 2 - Mr Whippy soft icecream van 1962 Commer karrier bf and Ice C - MOL V10D00 6X6 (while guess) both on sale.

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2011, 11:49:42 AM »
Ice 2 - Mr Whippy soft icecream van 1962 Commer karrier bf and Ice C - MOL V10D00 6X6 (while guess) both on sale.
The pictures are correctly identified, but they are not a pair.

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #16 on: September 07, 2011, 11:56:54 AM »
Ice 5 - Eiswagen auf Brezel-Käfer-Basis and Ice B -Tempo Matador 4 wheeler Staff Wagon India. Both VW related.
Ice 6 San Remo kerskstraat Ice cream in cups Holland and Ice I - Netherlands motor racing in 1898 at the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race.
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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #17 on: September 07, 2011, 12:11:07 PM »
Ice B -Tempo Matador 4 wheeler Staff wagon India and Ice 5 - Eiswagen auf Brezel-Käfer-Basis. Both VW related.
Ice B is a Tempo, but no Matador. If it was one, it would not be VW related.

Ice 5 is correctly identified.

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #18 on: September 07, 2011, 12:19:06 PM »
My mistake is Tempo Viking Staff Wagon 

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #19 on: September 07, 2011, 12:22:24 PM »
My mistake is Tempo Viking Staff Wagon 
Yes, Ice B is a Tempo Viking. Still no VW relation and thus no connection to Ice 5.

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #20 on: September 07, 2011, 12:24:30 PM »
Ice 6 with Ice I?

Ice truck,Dutch beach and the Gatso (Zandvoort) ?

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #21 on: September 07, 2011, 12:25:58 PM »
Related by Nacionality;
Ice 5 Eiswagen auf Brezel-Käfer-Basis and Ice G Rumpler Tropfenwagen Germany
Ice 1 Les glaces Ruiz and Louis Blériot voiturette France
Ice 4 Mr Whippy Leyland FG seen in Sandbach Fordson E83W ice cream van and Ice H - Margaret Thatcher riding in a Challenger UK
Ice 2 mr whippy soft icecream van 1962 commer karrier bf and Ice J humb - trojan brooke bond tea van stc 88 JL UK

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #22 on: September 07, 2011, 12:34:05 PM »
Ice 6 with Ice I?

Ice truck,Dutch beach and the Gatso (Zandvoort) ?
Yes, both pictures taken at Zandvoort. That makes another pairing.

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #23 on: September 07, 2011, 12:41:08 PM »
Related by Nacionality;
Ice 5 Eiswagen auf Brezel-Käfer-Basis and Ice G Rumpler Tropfenwagen Germany
Ice 1 Les glaces Ruiz and Louis Blériot voiturette France
Ice 4 Mr Whippy Leyland FG seen in Sandbach Fordson E83W ice cream van and Ice H - Margaret Thatcher riding in a Challenger UK
Ice 2 mr whippy soft icecream van 1962 commer karrier bf and Ice J humb - trojan brooke bond tea van stc 88 JL UK
Google and you do a lot of identification work. It is not surprising that all identifications are right, but pure nationality is not a strong enough connection.
Ice 5 and Ice G are not connected.
Ice 1 is related to the Bleriot voiturette (which Ice ?), but why?
Ice 4 and Ice H are related, but why?
We already had established the pair Ice 2 - Ice J, but still need the connection.

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Re: Ice Ice Baby
« Reply #24 on: September 07, 2011, 12:56:17 PM »
Ice 1 - Blériot-Plage - Calais,and Ice F - Bleriot Voiturette?