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m e r r y w a n y a e p !

What does he actually mean?

Happy New Year! Feliz Navidad! Happy Hanukkah Merry Christmas

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Krishna Sharma
Dec 30, 2014

Replace

$m \to h$ $\quad$ , $e \to a ,\quad a \to e$ $\quad$ $w \to n ,\quad n \to w$ $\quad$ , $p \to r$

m e r r y w a n y a e p = HAPPY NEW YEAR

In fact, due to the limited number of letters, I decided to make it $e \leftrightarrow a$ and $w \leftrightarrow n$ . Similarly, the rest of the letters would have paired up, though they just never appeared again.

And of course, we have $y \leftrightarrow y, ! \leftrightarrow !$ .

Calvin Lin Staff - 6 years, 5 months ago

Sorry but instead of "he" , there should be "it"

U Z - 6 years, 5 months ago

Well, my cat is male, and I refer to him as a he, and not a it.

Though, the question should be "what does he" instead of "what is he" (fixed). I was originally thinking of "what is he trying to meow", but then decided against that as I was typing.

Calvin Lin Staff - 6 years, 5 months ago

@Calvin Lin – sorry once again take it lightly

U Z - 6 years, 5 months ago

@U Z – No worries. Isn't my cat cute?

This isn't getting as many shares as I would have liked. I thought that the internet liked cat pictures? LOL

Calvin Lin Staff - 6 years, 5 months ago

@Calvin Lin – Sir these may help-

(Also seems the male cat is saying Happy new year)

U Z - 6 years, 5 months ago

@Calvin Lin – No offence but your cat looks more of the serious type! Maybe a cuter picture would have gotten more shares. :-)

Wrik Bhadra - 6 years, 5 months ago

@Calvin Lin – Your cat is adorable! :D And Brilliant isn't exactly a representative subset of the internet (thankfully!) Reshared!

Raj Magesh - 6 years, 5 months ago

Mrigank Krishan
Dec 30, 2014

By counting alphabets we can see that options ''Merry Christmas'' and "Happy Hanukkah" are rejected now we have to decode the message into Happy new year or Feliz Navidad. In case of Feliz Navidad 3rd and 4th digits are different but in case of Happy new year they are same as in the code. Therefore Happy new year is answer.

with Happy hanukkah, I was hoping that the exclamation mark could be interpreted as a letter, instead of an exclamation mark :)

Christmas was too long, and xmas was too short.

Calvin Lin Staff - 6 years, 5 months ago

i didn't took the exclamation mark for decoding bcoz that cn be left untouched when it is decoded as Happy new year or feliz navidad

Mrigank Krishan - 6 years, 5 months ago

Chew-Seong Cheong
Dec 30, 2014

The following 2-way code system is used:

$m \rightleftarrows h\quad e \rightleftarrows a \quad r \rightleftarrows p \quad y \rightleftarrows y \quad w \rightleftarrows n$

Therefore $\quad merrywanyaep \rightarrow HappyNewYear!!!$

Max Blum
Jul 8, 2016

Merry=happy; Wan=(phoenetically) one, which is the date; Yaep=that's already damn close to "year."

Knocking out the two that don't have exclamation points, I just check that it isn't the other one to be sure they aren't tricking me. Pretty intuitive.

Raegan Black
May 9, 2016

Merry does not equal merry. Or the rest of it would be correct. Happy is the only other one with a double letter. Then you can figure it out either by the exclamation mark, or the number of letters. No code needed.

Celeste Carrasco
Feb 12, 2016

I solved it by reading what is written ,and it sounded like happy new year.

Bob Berqulski
Dec 17, 2015

I worked this out by noticing that the letter A was repeated twice, so from this you just have to look at which word has the same letter where the letter A is the only one where this worked was HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Amber Laurence
Dec 16, 2015

I totally did this differently. XD

I reckoned it was a jumbled anagram, with not all of the letters present. So "Feliz Navidad" and "Happy Hanukkah" become eliminated for not having enough letters in common. From there, you search for the letters in the remaining two terms, and you arrive at "Happy New Year" as the answer.

Elijah Foster
Nov 1, 2015

I just counted 12 letters and a exclamation mark then counted the answers letters ... worked for me.

Mark Grout
Oct 31, 2015

I just went for the one that is the most inclusive: Everyone in the world celebrates New Year.

Hadia Qadir
Jul 28, 2015

m--h , e---a , a---e , w---n, n---w , p---r = happy new year

Michael Vilabrera
Jul 7, 2015

I must admit that I wagered an educated guess. First the number of letters were the same, and vowels were in similar places.

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