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A fun fact inspired by a recent Fictogram answer
Answers to last week's games
Wonder Woman was created by the inventor of the lie detector
The original polygraph tests looked a lot like the lasso of truth, but they were easily beaten once criminals realised they were just ropes braided with LEDs. Image generated by DALL-E.
In modern times, the superhero has risen to the top of popular culture. The expression of super-abilities while dressed in bold costumes does more than promote exciting toys and other franchise merchandise. The superhero costume serves to disguise the super-abled from their otherwise “mild mannered” alter ego, or “normal” social identity. In fact, the real disguise exists in the normal appearing everyday persona. While her origin story makes it clear she was crafted in clay by the god Hippolyta (later rebooted as the demigod offspring of Hippolyta and Zeus), DC’s Wonder Woman (Fictogram answer #159) lives a double life as duty bound US Army nurse Diana Prince. Her famous Lasso of Hestia, the Golden Perfect, gives her the uncanny ability to force anyone in its hold to tell the truth.
It therefore comes as no surprise that Wonder Woman was created by a psychologist with a real interest in deception. William Marston’s invention of the systolic blood pressure test led him to understand and apply the relationship between blood pressure and lying. His study of the relationship between emotion and blood pressure eventually led him to create the first lie detector test.
Believing women are more truthful than men, Marston became an advocate for the power of women. This would lead him to create a superhero with the power to conceal her own true nature, while also controlling men with godlike strength and a mighty golden lasso that can force anyone to tell the truth.
Answers to last week's games
Monday, April 22 to Sunday, April 28.
Globle
Apr 22 Poland
Apr 23 Vietnam
Apr 24 Nauru
Apr 25 Eq. Guinea
Apr 26 Ecuador
Apr 27 Congo
Apr 28 Barbados
Apr 29 Play now!
Globle: Capitals
Apr 22 Apia
Apr 23 Tripoli
Apr 24 Banjul
Apr 25 Roseau
Apr 26 Gitega
Apr 27 Vaduz
Apr 28 Yaounde
Apr 29 Play now!
Chronogram
#387 Yuri Gagarin
#388 Molière
#389 Peter the Great
#390 Confucius
#391 Ralph Waldo Emerson
#392 Marcus Aurelius
#393 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
#394 Play now!
Fictogram
#155 Michael Corleone
#156 Ender Wiggin
#157 T.S. Garp
#158 Santiago
#159 Wonder Woman
#160 Troy Maxson
#161 Princess Bubblegum
#162 Play now!
Metazooa
#266 bison
#267 raccoon
#268 sea snake
#269 hermit crab
#270 mongoose
#271 fruit bat
#272 bison
#273 Play now!
Metaflora
#205 baltic pine
#206 hibiscus
#207 geranium
#208 carnation
#209 hyacinth
#210 jackfruit
#211 sandalwood
#212 Play now!
Linxicon
The following are the shortest paths from last week:
#70 test -> sample -> portion -> part -> component
#71 house -> mortgage -> interest -> cent -> per
#72 completely -> clearly -> visibly -> show -> exhibit
#73 although -> however -> which -> where -> site
#74 only -> exclusive -> original -> origin -> background
#75 share -> donate -> donation -> coin -> buck
#76 respect -> sportsmanship -> sport -> ski
#77 Play now!
Forgeous
"Eugène Murer" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Forgery of week, from April 26
77.5% accurate
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste. Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier, 1841–1906). 1877, oil paint on canvas, 47 cm x 39.4 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438011.
Play Forgeous for April 29.
That’s all for this week. Thanks for reading!
