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[Neo]

Link to the Puzzles

Good luck!
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[ralphmerridew]

On IX, I noticed the phrase NO GUITAR reading down.

[ralphmerridew]

On VI:
The first roll has 18 on two adjacent sides and 10 on two opposite sides. The second has 7 / 11; the third has 6 / 16. That gives three different sums for the opposite sides, so all faces are represented.

In the third roll, to get 6 from the two adjacent sides involves one from the pair summing to 10 and one from the pair summing to 11:

18 / 10 :: 5/_5 | 4/6 | 3/7 | 2/8 | 1/9
_7 / 11 :: 1/10 | 2/9 | 3/8 | 4/7 | 5/6
_6 / 16 ::

The first and third cases are right out as they have a duplicated number.
Next, to make 7 for the second roll could use either the first number from the first pair of opposite sides or the second:

18 / 10 :: 4/_6 | 4/_6 | 2/_8 | 1/_9
_7 / 11 :: 2/_9 | 2/_9 | 4/_7 | 5/_6
_6 / 16 :: 3/13 | 1/15 | 5/11 | 6/10

Only in the fourth case is it possible to form 18 from two numbers: 2 and 8 opposite, 4 and 7 opposite, 5 and 11 opposite.

[Chuck]

For the Roll Of The Dice problem I wrote a UBASIC program to generate random sides and then check it for being a solution.

[Samadhi]

That's not entirely elegant.
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[Antrax]

Yeah, you should use C, like I did.
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[Chuck]

It's not entirely efficient either, finding the solution less than once per million loops. It's a good thing I was patient.

[Antrax]

It's a wonder, at your age.
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[ralphmerridew]

There's also a bug:

140 if S6=1 or S6=S2 or S6=S3 or S6=S4 or S6=S5 then 130

should "if S6=S1"

[Chuck]

Oops. I hand checked the answer I got so I never had reason to look for bugs.

[Gomez]

Interesting thing about the dice problem. I showed it to a workmate who has mildly autistic tendencies (I don't know for certain if he is autistic, but he does have a kinda "rain man" vibe about him). Anyway, he solved it in his head in about 5 minutes. Unfortunately, his solution was rather different from the one I submitted

Weird how people's minds work, isn't it?

[Duke Gnome]

On IX also, (All the words contain a number within them. I didn't notice the NOGUITAR whilst trying to solve it, and still have no idea how to proceed from here)

[phw]

And the unused letters are an anagram of MANDOLIN. I think we're getting close.

[Logain]

[Nauplius*]

Putting the words in order based on the numbers:

FORUM = M
AXIS = A
TOWN = N
DENT = D
HOGTIE = O
LINEN = L
EITHER = I
NEON = N

I don't see the other pupose though.

[Logain]

Nauplius, the one pupose was confirming the anagram order, but the other purpose was more of a distraction on where to start. The puzzle was solvable without them...and in my opinion, it would've even been much easier. Part of the difficulty was giving too much information so the starting point (focusing on the common trait of the words) was less obvious.

[DMAnd*]

On the die problem, left to right on four sides: 6,10,5,0, top 13, bottom absolute value of 3.

[DMAnd*]

VIIII, "The birds" Dent flew to the highest branch. Neon first w/ one in his name, Town 2nd w/ two in his name and so on til Dent w/ ten in his name. Sorry, could be girls.

[Duke Gnome]

Could someone provide a hint for "The Birds" and "D'n'A", as nobody seems to be taking an interest in them?

[Gomez]

Hints for the 'Birds' and 'D & A' puzzles


1) For 'The Birds' - Not all trees are made of wood.

2) For 'D & A' - The first step is figuring out what D & A stand for.


Hope that helps, but not too much

[groza528]

As confirmed by Logain, I *did* figure out what D&A stood for, but didn't get any further than that. I was thrilled when I got the Birds aha though

[Duke Gnome]

[ralphmerridew]

All I can think of is "Down & Across".

[Gomez]

Bigger hint for D & A

D & A do, as ralphmerridew noted, stand for Down and Across. This puzzle has nothing to do with crosswords or anything like that, rather each item in the series should be interpreted as an instruction. Furthermore, do not forget that this is a sequence puzzle, and the best sequence puzzles are those which find new and original ways of representing sequences which are very, very simple.

This was, incidentally, my favourite puzzle of the entire competition.

[Dented Ford]

I think DnA is where:

Ds count the downstrokes and As count the across strokes of a digital number display, like a calculator or clock. The series given is 1 (2 downstrokes) through 10 (6 downstrokes, 2 from digit 1 and 4 from digit 0, etc) and the required answer should be 11 through 14 as per:
4D
4D3A
4D3A
5D1A

[someone*]

VI

...11
8..7..2
...5
...4

[Nauplius*]

Am I on the right track here:

Sugar - ?
farmer's - Daughter
undercover - Brother?
fortunate - Son
goose - Mother
clause - Grandfather
twisted - Sister
buck - Uncle
time - Father
If so I'd guess the answer would be clause goes to the highest branch.

[Logain]

I'd say your track looks pretty good Nauplius

The one you left out can be said to be ambigious since two good answers can fit...although if you google both possibilities one result is twice the other, but it's irrelevant since it doesn't affect the puzzle's outcome.

[PuzzleScot]

I'm lovin' this - kicking myself at those I'd missed - Bizarrely I *did* figure out what D&A stood for, but made no more sense of it. oh well...

As for birds - good puzzle, but for one thing - too American! Well, that's not strictly true - it can be American if we know it is so...

"clause = Grandfather" - huh? must be an American thing?
I could say the same for
"undercover = Brother" and "fortunate = Son" too...

BTW, Sugar = Daddy, right?, or maybe it's 'baby' in the US?
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[Courk]

I'm less sure about the other ones, but I suppose Grandfather clause could seem American. I'm not sure if it's strictly used in America, though.

[ralphmerridew]

"Grandfather clause" refers to a clause sometimes added to changes in regulations that allows existing objects that otherwise conflict with the new regulations. (For example, laws related to emission standards may except classic cars.)

The term comes from a law that a person must pass a literacy test to vote, unless he, his father, or grandfather was eligible to vote before a certain date.

[Salty]

Grandfather Clause is a fairly international term. We certainly have it here in Ireland.