6 Mosses

**Ghazanfar Ghori** · 24th Apr 2004, 03:25

Gave it a closer look. I'm pretty confident I got it right.

Good thread! I have never paid this much attention to the minute
differences in some of these.

**Slaigar** · 24th Apr 2004, 05:35

I have never seen Taiwan moss yet but here are my guesses: Taiwan, Erect, Singapore, Weeping, Java, Christmas.

I was very tempted to do a switch around Singapore, Weeping and Christmas moss.

**Joey Wang** · 24th Apr 2004, 05:47

My guess: Top to bottom
A: Weeping
B: Erect
C: Xmas
D: Singapore
E: Java
F: Taiwan

**Barbarik** · 24th Apr 2004, 13:23

Gan, I'm here! I'm here!
Until I get myself a good microscope, I'll give this guessing game a miss.
But, wait! I do not want others to give up this very interesting 'game'.
I will contribute the prizes for the winners of the second 'game'. Two full fronds of Taiwan moss to every winner. Yes, you read it right! Taiwan moss

. The true Taiwan moss that I bought from Mermaid & not from any other shops selling cheap 'Taiwan moss'.
Sorry, can't give more than 2 full fronds to each winner. Two full fronds should cost me close to $10. Collection at my place, please. Overseas winners will get the moss by normal shipping. Anyone wants to sponsor the speed post for our overseas winners???

Mr Loh will also give additional prizes to the winners

.
So, guys, keep your guesses coming!!! :wink:

Regards,
Yandy

**Green Baron** · 24th Apr 2004, 15:26

Originally Posted by Barbarik

Gan, I'm here! I'm here!
Until I get myself a good microscope, I'll give this guessing game a miss.

:-( Just guess for the fun of it ! If you get it right, you get to keep the 2 Taiwan fronds

**BeyondGomer** · 25th Apr 2004, 02:18

Taiwan Erect Singapore Weeping Java moss Christmas perhaps?

**aquazeebo** · 25th Apr 2004, 05:26

I will try too

A - Taiwan
b - Erect
c - Singapore
d - Weeping
e - Java
f - Christmas

Radek

**stormhawk** · 25th Apr 2004, 10:53

KL, I think I'll give it a shot.

A) Taiwan Moss
B) Christmas Moss
C) Erect Moss
D) Weeping Moss
E) Java Moss
F) Singapore Moss

Not sure if I'm right but heck, why not. :wink:

**ectan** · 25th Apr 2004, 15:43

My guess,

T-B :

Taiwan
Erect
Singapore
Christmas
Java
Weeping

___________
EngChuan

**tony.ch** · 26th Apr 2004, 07:25

Very interesting to see all the mosses close up. This is much harder than the first round but after much squinting i've come up with:
Taiwan-Erect-singapore-weeping-java-xmas.

Can't wait for the next round!

**TanVincent** · 26th Apr 2004, 11:13

well worth a shot

Taiwan
Erect
singapore
weeping
java
xmas

Cheers
Vincent

**strung_0ut** · 26th Apr 2004, 12:54

just got a lot tougher

my stab is:
weeping, erect, christmas, taiwan, java, singapore

**francis** · 26th Apr 2004, 13:41

Just trying my luck

T-B
Taiwan
Erect
Singapore
Weeping
Java
Christmas

**dts_spawn** · 26th Apr 2004, 16:09

T-B
moss A:Taiwan
moss B : Erect
moss C : Singapore
moss D : Weeping
moss E : Java moss
moss F : Christmas

**blur one** · 26th Apr 2004, 17:16

My shot in the dark....

A = Singapore
B = Erect
C = Weeping
D = Taiwan
E = Java

**stormhawk** · 27th Apr 2004, 00:08

KL, 2nd try, was looking at some of own mosses and I realised I made a mistake or two. So here's the new top-to-bottom list.

A) Taiwan Moss
B) Erect Moss
C) Singapore Moss
D) Weeping Moss
E) Java Moss
F) Christmas Moss

**timebomb** · 27th Apr 2004, 19:27

Hi, folks,

You guys are good

.

I thought the puzzle was tough. Frankly, although I took the photographs, I have difficulties identifying them myself. But many of you got the answers correct. I must say Ghazanfar Ghori impressed me the most as he was really quick with his answer. He correctly identified the mosses in less than half an hour after I posted the puzzle. For the record, this is the correct answer:

Moss A - Taiwan
Moss B - Erect
Moss C - Singapore
Moss D - Weeping
Moss E - Java
Moss F - Christmas

Besides Ghazanfar (USA), Mark Mendoza (USA), Tony aka Gomer (USA), Radek (Poland), Tony (UK), Vincent Tan (Singapore), Francis Yap (Singapore),Willy Wee (Singapore) and JianYang (Singapore) also got the answers correct. I'm not sure if Yandy has enough Taiwan Mosses to give to so many people. I think his $220 piece of driftwood would be stripped bare of mosses even if he sends only 2 fronds to each winner

.

Don't look at me, I didn't promise any prizes

.

But since Yandy made a promise, I would hate to disappoint the winners. Let's compromise. I will put up another puzzle and the first 3 persons to get the answers correct will receive either Taiwan or Weeping Mosses from me. It's your choice and I'll try and send more than just 2 fronds. But this time, please send your answers to me through private message or email. This is to prevent "copying" of answers

. The contest is over the moment I receive 3 correct answers.

Here's the puzzle. Identify, from left to right, which is which:

Loh K L

**timebomb** · 27th Apr 2004, 21:51

By the way, if you haven't noticed, I've removed the earlier close-up pictures of the mosses from this thread. This is so you can't solve the puzzle by comparing the mosses in the above picture with those earlier ones. I can't do anything about it if you have saved them to your computer though.

If you're going to make a guess based solely on luck, take note that the possible number of combinations in such a puzzle is 6 factorial. In other words, there are 720 possible answers but only one would be correct

Have fun.

Loh K L

**Green Baron** · 27th Apr 2004, 22:24

This is getting tougher and tougher !

**Ghazanfar Ghori** · 27th Apr 2004, 22:32

Yeah I just PMed Loh my guesses. I cannot call it more than a guess,
it's really difficult to ID these - on most of them you cannot even
see the branching variations.

My hat's off in advance to the person who can ID this
correctly - you're the moss king!

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