Quel est le nom?

Bilbao has just let me know he’s returned from vacation, and so before the week is over, will have another hard math puzzle to put up!

Today, however, comes a neat challenge pulled from a very old pile of French puzzle cards-the same dreaded stash that produced 100 million Gherkins (from which only Grandmaster Shawn could show the way out!)

For this one, the task is a bit more to the point: What is the name of the little boy? And,

What is the name of the little girl??

Tags: antique, french, puzzle-card

25 Comments to “Quel est le nom?”

brianu | Profile August 3rd, 2009 - 11:24 pm

Rose and Lucien (or something like that)
Skyhawk | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 1:05 am

Lucien and Rose
bilbao | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 2:12 am

rose and lucien
hex | PUZZLE MASTER | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 3:45 am

Lucien and Rose
ghisa | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 4:53 am

Rose
Lucien
the_god_dellusion | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 6:41 am

rose & lucien
Denita TwoDragons | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 7:46 am

His name is “Lucien”, hers is “Rose”…fold the card corners together diagonally a la “Mad Fold-In” and the names show up.

Though with sour faces like that, their names should be “Stand In The Corner” and “You’re Grounded!” ;-)
zedbot69 | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 9:00 am

The names of the boy & girl are Lucien & Rose respectively
jason | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 9:24 am

lucien and rose
Anastasia11 | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 9:36 am

Lucien and Rose
fuzzy | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 9:44 am

Am I missing something? This looks awfully easy.
Boy: Lucien
Girl: Rose
Oneiric | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 2:03 pm

Haha, this one is quite easy and plus, French is my first language.

Lucien and Rose. Which are, to be honest, old people’s names (Except for Rose that is making a comeback recently.

Maintenant, il faudrait demander à trouver leur âge respectif!
gonzo | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 2:18 pm

Rose and Lucien. I cheated by printing the picture.
Ari | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 3:23 pm

Lucien and Rose i assume.
markodiablo | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 6:07 pm

The little boy’s name is Lucien.
The little girl’s name is Rose.
Mashplum | PUZZLE MASTER | Profile August 4th, 2009 - 9:51 pm

Lucien et Rose.
rachel | Profile August 5th, 2009 - 2:40 am

i think the boys name is Lucien and the girls name is Rosie
Shawn | PUZZLE GRANDMASTER | Profile August 5th, 2009 - 10:08 am

LUCIEN & ROSE
makada | Profile August 5th, 2009 - 11:44 am

Boy – Lucien
Girl – Rose
JosephBach | Profile August 5th, 2009 - 3:30 pm

the boy’s name is Lucien.
the girl’s name is Rose.
NN | Profile August 6th, 2009 - 11:25 am

Hi the names are Lucien and Rose if anyone is interested in how I got to this have a look here
ruddwd | Profile August 6th, 2009 - 12:06 pm

Lucien and Rose
JustPlainDan | Profile August 6th, 2009 - 1:47 pm

Rose and Lucien
RK | Founder | Profile August 7th, 2009 - 8:22 am

NN posts a nice link to how the solution is obtained;

@Denita two Dragons-haha those are some braty expressions they have on their face!
makada | Profile August 7th, 2009 - 4:08 pm

Considering that these are french cards….so can I take a wild guess that Lucien refers to Lucien Bonaparte (Napolean’s brother) and Rose refers to Josephine (Napolean’s wife)

What are they two doing on a card together…? Does Napolean know about this card?